Political comic Will Durst has a new book out, “The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing,” available from Ulysses Press. A Midwestern baby boomer with a media- induced identity crisis, Durst, according to the New York Times is “quite possibly the best political satirist working in the country today.” This equal opportunity offender is exceptionally adept at swatting both partisan political piñatas upside their heads.October 7, 2008
His staff is worried John McCain is going to snap. Bet for Tuesday’s debate, they have some guy waiting in the wings with a fire extinguisher. “He’s going to blow.”
October 6, 2008
My 401k is now a 201k.
October 3, 2008
Being largely a crisis of confidence over our foundering Ship of State, it is more comforting than polar bear fur against a naked buttock knowing George Bush is steady at the helm. He actually said out loud in front of people holding microphones “we’re working hard on economic turmoil.” Thanks George. Finally gets one thing right, and its economic turmoil. I ask you now: What are the odds?
October 2, 2008
Sarah Palin’s people are setting the expectations bar so low, if she pronounces her running mate’s name correctly, she wins.
September 30, 2008
Palin vs. Biden: Over anxious versus over coached. Should be odd.
September 29, 2008
Less than 90 shopping days left before Christmas. Let’s hope there’s 90 shops left open by Christmas.
September 26, 2008
Less than 90 shopping days left before Christmas. Let’s hope there’s 90 shops left open by Christmas.
September 25, 2008
George Bush said “we’re working hard on economic turmoil.” Mission Accomplished.
September 24, 2008
One of John McCain’s advisors said the Senator helped invent the Blackberry. Not the smart phone. Real blackberries. He’s the Luther Burbank of politics.
September 23, 2008
John McCain vows to dismantle the Old Boy Network. Which should be doable, considering his current standing as Ranking Old Boy.
July 31, 2008
John McCain recently gave a speech in San Francisco, which is an awful lot like a cobra crashing a mongoose convention.
July 30, 2008
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was indicted on 7 felony counts of bribery. You know how a bribe is different than a campaign contribution? A campaign contribution has six syllables. A bribe only has one.
July 29, 2008
Iran executed 29 people in one day. Apparently, they gave up the electric chair for electric bleachers.
July 28, 2008
President Bush complained that Wall Street got drunk and now has a hangover. Pretty condescending talk from the guy who acted as bartender.
July 25, 2008
Every Olympics the host nation gets to include their own sport. Wonder what the Chinese are going to do: barbed wire hurdles? The dissident toss? Starving Doberman re-education pit jump?
July 24, 2008
Barack Hussein is addressing his foreign policy bona fides. And John McCain is addressing his reversal of the cruel hand of time bona fides.
July 23, 2008
I don’t think John McCain is flip flopping so much as just forgetting what his previous positions were.
July 21, 2008
President Bush has agreed to a time horizon which is different from a timetable the same way that vertically falling moisture is different than rain.
April 29, 2008
Barack Obama turned down a chance to debate Hillary Clinton before next Tuesday’s primaries. “I’m not ducking, we’ve had 21 debates” he quacked.
April 28, 2008
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright may have permanently damaged Barack Obama’s Presidential aspirations by referring to him as a (gasp)… politician.
March 31, 2008
George Bush threw out the 1st ball at Nationals Park on Sunday Night, and if all goes according to plan, later this week, he’ll throw out the 1st Amendment.
March 28, 2008
After his eighth visit to Iraq, Sen. John McCain declared "we are succeeding." Wow, I hope so, because if this is success, I’d hate to see what losing looks like.
February 29, 2008
The New York Times intimates John McCain had a romantic relationship with a lobbyist. McCain wants a retraction. Barack Obama wants an investigation and Bill Clinton wants a phone number.
February 28, 2008
You could say that the electorate is less than excited Ralph Nader is running again. You could also say porcupine quills make inadequate pillow stuffing for day- care nap time.
Will Durst's comments and joke on the events of January 2008...
