Tweet Untweet: Paul Ryan's Gun Budget

Paul Ryan's budget is just 47 pictures of him doing push-ups that he handed in "by mistake."

— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) March 12, 2013

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Monday's Links: SNL's Hot Sequester Cuts Cold Open

* Saturday Night Live explains the budget cuts with disco.

* It probably took a village to build Abraham Lincoln's log cabin.

* John Oliver's "The Bugle" podcast covers Mali, the Pope and Mars.

* The next time John Boehner gets mouthy, Joe Biden should pull this prank.

* The Suffrage Parade of 1913 is 100 years old today and still looks amazing.

* "Bill Clinton is a red blooded American. He likes guns, burgers, and women."

* The great new idea to shout at people online who have different opinions than you do.

* A hidden camera show goes to Texas to see how a red state stands up to intolerance.

* NASA brags about how it has the largest indoor pool in the world. Suck it, Donald Trump!

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President Obama Gets Budget Chief From Walmart

Groceries. Radial tires. Cabinet-level political appointees.

There's nothing you can't get from Walmart, as proven by President Obama this morning, when he nominated Walmart Foundation head Sylvia Mathews Burwell to bring the "Save Money, Live Better" spirit to the Office of Management and Budget. (If this ends with Joe Biden handing out smiley face stickers at the West Wing entrance, we'll know she's gone too damn far.)

Burwell's resume includes a position in the Treasury Department during the Clinton years, a previous stint at OMB and being the only thing President Obama could have gotten from Walmart that wasn't made in China.

Nor will Burwell be the only veteran of corporate America to join the great socialist conspiracy in Obama's cabinet. Interior Secretary nominee Sally Jewell was CEO of sporting-goods store REI before backpacking her way to Washington, DC.

At this point, Ben and Jerry are going to feel very left out if one of them doesn't get to run something in Washington. Is there a Department of Watching Movies at Home Alone While Crying?

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Tags: Barack Obama, Budget, Corporations

Tweet Untweet: A Legit Plan

Not sure why Boehner needs Plan B; I was informed the legislative body has a way of shutting the whole thing down.

— delrayser (@delrayser) December 18, 2012

 

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Tweet Untweet: We'll Put a Budget up Your A**

There's still several weeks to form a country band called Fiscal Cliff and have that band play their hit song "Compromise" on morning shows.

— Eugene Mirman (@EugeneMirman) December 3, 2012

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