And A Nauseating Holiday Season To All

I'm sorry to do this to you but, in the interest of making sure my readers are totally informed -- and based on how the White House is rabidly pushing this -- you should know that George and Laura Bush have released their annual holiday video, "Barney's Holiday Extravaganza."

It has everything you could ever want, including peppy music, cute puppy-dog and kitty antics and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson making a cameo appearance in which he breaks it to Barney that the U.S. Treasury is out of money to fund the White House's annual production.

Must be that hilarious Iraq war thing that's caused us to be that broke. Get it?

We even get to see Karl Rove taking a gut-busting turn that shows him successfully getting a part in the dog's production over Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, who was rejected.

Gosh, it's almost enough to make you forget that we have troops being slaughtered in an Iraq civil war that America was lied into, isn’t it?

Isn't it?

Anyway, just so you're in the loop, here it is: