From the Pork Barrel: Turns Out Torture's Bad For You After All

* Pulling out of the running for Director of the CIA must be torture for John Brennan.

* Secretary of Defense Robert Gates only known American to keep job through the year.

* AIG isn't blowing money like it's coke. AIG is still blowing money like it's coke.

* Assumption confirmed: Republicans like assholes.

* GOP ad man went out of his way to avoid racism in anti-Obama ads. How racist!

* Michael Bloomberg sticking around this shithole we call New York City after all.

* Wanna hear a good one? McCain 2012.

Tags: AIG, Barack Obama, CIA, John Brennan, John McCain, Michael Bloomberg, New York, Obama Administration, Pork Barrel, Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gates