Monday Ménage, With A Plus One: Laughing At Politicians

Barry. Rogers. Truman. Bierce.

 

The question is why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing on national television that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste? Dave Barry.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. Will Rogers.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here. Harry S. Truman.

Alliance: In international politics the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. Ambrose Bierce.

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But In The End The Joke’s Really On Us