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Like the foot in mouth award below these quotes sure do qualify. Plus they are funny too.

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CONGRESS IS ASKED TO RAISE DEBT LIMIT

Treasury Secretary John W. Snow said yesterday that the United States could be UNABLE to pay its bills in early 2006 unless Congress raises the government's borrowing authority, which is now capped at $8.18 trillion.

Snow, in a letter to lawmakers, estimated that the government is expected to bump into the statutory debt limit around the middle of February.

Looks to me like we are there already. I captured the above image just last night and it looks like we are already there.

Snow's letter did not say how much of a boost to the current debt limit the department would like to see this time. Instead, Snow implored, "I am writing to request that Congress raise the statutory debt limit as soon as possible."

Each citizen's share of this debt is $27,477.52.

LOBBYIST, PROSECUTORS SAID CLOSE TO DEAL

Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff consulted briefly Friday with a federal judge in Miami as they put the finishing touches on a plea deal that could be announced as early as Tuesday.

The plea agreement would secure the lobbyist's testimony against several members of Congress who received favors from him or his clients.

For the past two weeks, pressure has been intensifying on Abramoff to strike a deal with prosecutors since his former business partner, Adam Kidan, pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy in connection with the 2000 SunCruz deal.

In a five-year span ending in early 2004, Indian tribes represented by the lobbyist contributed millions of dollars in casino income to congressional campaigns, often routing the money through political action committees for conservative members of Congress who opposed gambling.

Abramoff also provided trips, skybox fundraisers, golf fees, frequent meals, entertainment and jobs for lawmakers' relatives and aides.

I hear that train a coming. . .

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PRETTY GOOD JOKE

Dave Barry:

* The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club. . .

25 THINGS I'M GLAD I DIDN'T SAY

23) "Get some devastation in the back." --Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, to a staff photographer as he posed for a photo op while visiting tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka, Jan. 6, 2005

WORKS FOR ME!!!

When my friend got her driver's license, her sister looked at it and, quite perplexed asked, "'Donor'? What did you doan?"

My friend corrected her, "I donated my organs in the event that I die."

Her confused response: "Don't you need them?"