As if Americans didn’t have enough trouble with The Illegals coming up from Mexico to take all of our high-paying lettuce-picking jobs, there’s a new menace on the horizon. It comes from the lost pirate nation of Australia, which is sending a flood of lobbyists over our borders and depriving many hard-working Americans of the right to bribe Congress for a living. MORE »

The Anonymous Lobbyist, who is also the Anonymous Tit-Watcher, is furious about the Democrats’ new tax plan, and we’ve always got space for that. Enjoy.

After nearly a year of dicking around (and being mistaken for the chain-smoking Minority Leader John Boehner on the phone, which totally pisses him off), husky-voiced Ways and Means Committee Chair Charlie Rangel finally unveiled his tax cut package for the masses this morning. Hey, did you know that it’s for the middle class, which includes people that make $200,000/year (even though the median income in this country is actually $48,200)? But, I’ll bet Charlie feels totally middle classes when he’s rubbing shoulders with all his rich donors on his meager pittance of a salary. MORE »

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