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Quote of the Week
"I've always felt it's better to be sworn in that to be sworn at." —Sen. Patrick Leahy, after Vice President Dick Cheney swore him in to a new Senate term (last year Cheney told Leahy to "go f--k yourself" during a heated exchange on the Senate floor)

Late-Night Jokes
"You may recall immediately after news of the tsunami broke the Bush administration pledged aid to the region in the amount of 15 million dollars. A bold statement to the world that America is willing to spend about as much on the victims of the greatest natural tragedy in recent history as it was willing to spend on the first week of 'Spanglish.'" —Jon Stewart

"A prominent Republican, Christine Todd Whitman, who resigned from Bush's cabinet, has written a new book criticizing the right wing's control over the Republican party. It's called 'It's My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP.' See that's the part I don't get. Battling for the heart of the Republican Party — isn't that like fighting for the brain of the Democratic Party?" —Jay Leno

"In this week's Newsweek John Kerry says he didn't loose the election, he just didn't win. See that's the clear decisive kind of thinking that made us all love him." —Jay Leno

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