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Jon Stewart Rips Congress’ New Debt ‘Superhero’ Committee

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It seems no one is fully satisfied with the deal that last month’s debt crisis finally carved out of Congress, with polls showing Americans feel Congress behaved like “spoiled children” and the deal with nothing short of “disgusting.” On tonight’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart took a closer look at the congressional “supercommittee” that is supposed to navigate the country out of this mess, and found the comic book heroes at least marginally underwhelming.

There was plenty to dislike about Congress, Stewart noted, beginning with a fairly hilarious speech by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the Senate floor where he lamented that his pomegranate and fig trees back in Nevada were blooming without him. “What are you,” Stewart shouted at him, “the Sultan of Reno?” Then there’s the fact that the spending bill Congress fought so hard over didn’t really reduce much of the debt at all, according to Diane Sawyer‘s “parallelogram of disappointment” (spending graph). Most of the work, Stewart noted, was being relegated to a “supercommittee.” Who are these heroes that will save us from impending economic doom? Let Stewart’s comic book show you.

There’s “The Senator Drone,” (Sen. Reid) who will “talk to you about things for a long time,” “Professor Kvetch,” (Sen. Charles Schumer) “drowning out opponents with his supersonic whine,” and “Old-Man Man” (Sen. John McCain), who is mostly self-explanatory. “Will the Supercommittee save Congress from Congress’ archenemy: the American people?” Stewart asked. Likely not, but hopefully someone will turn Stewart’s idea into a brilliant animated Saturday morning cartoon series before America goes completely bankrupt.

The segment via Comedy Central below:

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  • Anonymous

    It must give liberals great confidence to know that a comedian is taking the lead in advising them on fiscal matters.   

  • Greg

    I much prefer this as a solution.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmRAiUPdRjk

  • Rusty Shackleford

    My favorite part of tonight’s episode was when Stewart called out Goolsbee (and all of Team Obama) for those propeganda stops at factories that he’s been doing since he passed the stimulus. To quote Stewart (from wit, so it may be a bit off), “he goes around shaking people’s hands and congratulating them on still having jobs.” Ha! The audience didn’t know what to do themselves. Polite laughter turned into raucous applause when Goolsbee started cracking up.

  • Anonymous

    In his interview with Goolsbee, Goolsbee told Stewart that he’s been having to deal with those who trays weren’t really in the upright position and locked.  And he felt bad that he was having to leave the President behind to have to deal with them!  PRICELESS!

    Stewart cracked, you know you really don’t have to leave him behind.

  • John

    What a dweeb stewart is. If he is just supposed to be a comedian then why is whole show on political posturing. To appeal to his liberal audience, he must take up their views, which are so moronic. Therefore Stewart you are a moron.

  • Glenn Bovine

    I have all my hope in that “bipartisan” congressional debt committee.

    The gNOpig morons have shown they really work well with others.

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  • Anonymous

    Liebowitz is a boring little jerk. Why doesn’t he hire some comedy writers?

  • cdnhawk

    The Daily Show does a great job at poking fun at the absurdity of politics in America…both sides…but mostly the right because that is where the best material comes from

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Progressives disease hits the economy! read it here> news.yahoo.com/us-aaa-rating-still-under-threat-204040123.html

  • Anonymous

    Fact: No debating on your fact! priceless!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    The Super Committee is absurd, perhaps even illegal. It adds a huge element of instability to the political process, and it is instability which is crippling our recovery. To the extent Stewart is pointing this fact out to Americans, he is doing us all a tremendous service.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: 2012 elections can’t come quick enough. Tea Party will throw out the demarodents that hate America by the dozens and put in people with common sense and will continue the entitlement cuts until we have balance that the 75% of public want.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Out by dozens

  • Valerie

    WOW what a funny timely and on point post!!!!!

    You should apply for the job!!! YOU’RE HILARIOUS!*

    *by hilarious I mean utterly stupid. 

  • Anonymous

    my 401k cannot tolerate another boehner bill.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    The UK has revised its growth projections downwards. Again. After two (2) years, austerity is doing nothing. Politicians are surprised. Economists, not so much.

  • demonot

    Does anyone know someone who did not vote for Obama in 2008 but would vote for him now in 2012?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    My nephew. He turned 18 in 2010.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s see if little Jonny Boy talks about the fact that jobless claims for last week were NOT below 400,000 as previously declared by the Dept. of Labor. Not even Obamo’s politically violent tactics–in this case, lying–can mask the truth of his ineptness. Obamo is trying to use political ‘muscle’ (an oxymoron for a limp-wrist) to get labor statistics more to his ‘liking.’

  • Republicans are Liars

    Hey Idiot boy, what are you going to do when they take your social security and medicare away?

  • Anonymous

    Solution to what? Certainly not the debt problem.

    The last time US debt topped the size of its annual economy was in 1947 just after World War II. By 1981 it had fallen to 32.5 percent.

    Ratings agencies have warned the country to reduce its debt-to-GDP ratio quickly or facing losing its coveted AAA debt rating.

    Moody’s said Tuesday that the
    government needed to stabilize the ratio at 73 percent by 2015 “to
    ensure that the long-run fiscal trajectory remains compatible with a AAA
    rating.”

    http://tinyurl.com/3v5ho5w

  • Anonymous

    More confidence than when the Republican president was taking advice from an astrologer.

  • Anonymous

    I just paid $ 23.86 for an iPhone and my girlfriend loves her Dell laptop that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 42 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 665 which only cost me $ 62,81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, GrabPenny.com

  • Anonymous

    My kids can’t afford another 4 years of this administration.

  • Anonymous

    You should watch the show sometimes.  It’s really good.  There’s funny stuff that gets right to the heart of the issue.  And he skewers both sides, as well as presents all kinds of viewpoints with guests like Bill O’Reilly, Mike Huckabee, Bill Kristol and Cliff May.

    In fact, many Conservatives enjoy going on the show as it gives them a platform to reach a more Liberal audience.

    As for your viewpoint that someone who has different view than you do is a moron, well that viewpoint is inherently more moronic than what you falsely name ‘moronic’.

  • Anonymous

    Fax is a machine that electronically transmits paperwork.  A fact is knowledge or information based on real occurrences.

    Democrats do not hate America.  Your argument would hold more water if it actually contained facts.  You should change your schtick to:

    just4thefallacies

    and start out your statement with

    Opinion Based on Misguided Information:

  • Anonymous

    No one ever cut their way to prosperity.

  • Brad DC

    So being clueless and blind runs in the family

  • Anonymous

    In a memo Barasso handed out to the lawmakers,
    he claimed that the administration in July only has put in $9.5 billion
    in new regulatory costs by proposing 229 new rules and finalizing 379
    rules. Among those he cited were EPA, healthcare reform, and financial regulatory reform rules.

    http://www.usnews.com/news/washington-whispers/articles/2011/08/03/report-obama-administration-added-95-billion-in-red-tape-in-july

    The main reason there is no economic growth? The Democrats are trying in impose a socialist, centrally planned economy on the American capitalist economy. The result is the stagnation we see today. Until the Messiah and his disciples are driven out of power, there will be no recovery.

  • Greg

    Nothing generates high ratings like a death match Pablo.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, you hope to solve some ratings problem? Great. That should be very helpful.

  • Valerie

     Yes you would be an expert on lack of growth. Maybe one day you’ll top out at two inches.

  • Valerie

    Your kids can’t afford another 4 years on your janitor’s salary!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Amen!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Take the T-Partee Terrorist solution: Don’t support your children.

  • Republicans are Liars

    Please expound on what these moronic views are. I would really like to know what it is that puts you off by the liberals.

  • Anonymous

    Well isn’t that why the “job creators” get these big tax breaks? Why aren’t they creating jobs?

    Oh I know why….because the Tea Party is full of shit.

  • Anonymous

    Especially when I also sold a 42 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 665 which only cost me $ 62,81 to buy.

    A deal brokered by the Obama blue ribbon , Nobel prize winning economic team , no doubt .

  • Anonymous

    Or spent their way into  “shovel ready ” jobs apparently .

  • Greg

    Ratings agencies love a high drama to politics ratio… Only way to retain our rating is a ratio around 73 percent. Thunder dome should get us up to 86% in a few short weeks.

  • Anonymous

    Nancy Reagan was a Republican president?  Can you give me a citation on that?

  • gar1956

    Something wrong in making an honest living as a janitor. Maybe waiting for the government check like you is the way to go. I can just imagine your thoughts on the 25 k jobs that came from McDonald’s two months ago. 

  • gar1956

    At least they know who their father is.

  • Rusty Shackleford

    Not to mention that the Super Congress is completely unconstitutional and usurps the actual Congress outlined in Article I.

  • Anonymous

     lmfao you ever heard of satire? or is that just beyond your brain functions? honestly, go back and read some mark twain and tell me whether he is just an author or a political commentator.

  • Anonymous

    I’m just waiting until they cut his food stamps and welfare checks out. 

  • Valerie

    Sez you.

  • Irish189

    its more disturbing that the comedian is making more sense than anyone in the legislative branch 

  • Irish189

    I take it you’ve never watched someone like George Carlin or Chris Rock do a stand up routine, there was always a part dedicated to the foolishness of what the government was doing

  • richs

    You forgot to mention that even with the cut the growth in the UK is projected to be stronger than the growth in the US.  You also forgot to mention the the growth projections for the US were also cut.  You do lie, but you do it poorly.

  • richs

    Sorbanes-Oxley is one of the reasons.  It helped divert companies’ funds from doing productive work that would create wealth and therefore create more jobs to doing government report filing work that does nothing to create wealth/jobs.

  • Anonymous

    what’s wrong with being a janitor? its a good honest job and they do a very good service for the rest of us.

  • Anonymous

    Read Joan Quigley who wrote What Does Joan Say?: My Seven Years as White House Astrologer to Nancy and Ronald Reagan. Carol Publishing Group. New York, NY; 1990.

  • Anonymous

    So we don’t need to invest in the infrastructure of the United States? 

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