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From The Room: Bush Joins Obama Team as White House Handyman

January 8, 2009 - Washington, D.C. -- President-elect Barack Obama announced today that President Bush will continue to work in the White House after Mr. Obama's inauguration on January 20th - Mr. Bush will take over as White House Handyman. "He'll fix various things that are in a state of disrepair...

Hurricane Blago does to Chicago what Katrina did to New Orleans

December 11, 2008 - The "short kid with the somewhat controversial name" fights for his political life as the "skinny kid with the funny name" watches from a distance...

From The Feed: National press grows a pair of post-Bush balls

December 1, 2008 - A reporter asks P-E Obama about his primary-era statements regarding Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience. (Apparently Obama said things that would lead voters to think that Clinton was less qualified to be president than he. ???) Way to ruin a nice moment, a-hole. We were hoping to...

From The Feed: Hillary Clinton grips it!!

December 1, 2008 - Hillary Clinton prefers to take it from under, it being her new position and under being under that glass ceiling. So homegirl likes being the submissive after all. Watch here as America's new Madame takes it for 3 and a half minutes. Girl power, am I right...

Al-Qaeda, meet Janet!

November 20, 2008 - The latest name to emerge from the speculation surrounding Barack Obama's cabinet appointments is that of Janet Napolitano, the Arizona governor who, sources say, has been tapped to become secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. By all accounts she's a popular choice, and apparently even...

Eric Holder named "First Black Milestone That No One Cares About"

November 20, 2008 - Poor Eric Holder. Just a few weeks ago, news of the first African-American Attorney General would have been kind of a big deal. But now that we have a black president, first black Attorney General just sounds kind of "eh." This...

Potential AG Eric Holder gives us black robe fever

November 19, 2008 - If you're waiting to hear back about your job application for attorney general, you're about to get some bad news. According to reports, Barack Obama has offered the gig to longtime lawyer and former deputy attorney general...

From The Feed: Christopher Hitchens just hates the thought of Sec. of State Hillary. OBVI.

November 18, 2008 - On Hardball last night, Chris Matthews' asked part-time misogynist Christopher Hitchens what he thinks of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. If you just love being totally unsurprised by political pundits, check out the clip below...

From The Feed: Joe Scarborough first to jump on the Rahm Emanuel hate-train

November 5, 2008 - Not even 24 hours after the election and the punditry fur is already flying. Today's noise: Rahm Emanuel...