Sooner Be Blue

"Welcome to “The Tonight Show.” You sound happier than Barack Obama when he found out Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton both paid their taxes.

I think Barack Obama is a genius. I think this is part of the plan. Do you ever notice when Barack Obama nominates someone, the first thing they do is pay their taxes? He’s found a way to pay off the deficit. Nominate every single person in the country one at a time, until they pay off the deficit.

As you know, Tom Daschle withdrew his name to be in Obama’s cabinet, due to IRS problems. Yeah, he said, “I will not be a distraction.” See, distraction is Washington talk for, “Uh-oh, there’s a lot more crap you don’t know about yet.”

Wasn’t it just a couple months ago, these people were making fun of Joe the plumber for not paying his taxes?

Daschle says that his problems with the IRS were unintentional. Well, of course they were unintentional. He never intended to get caught.

I guess the Democrats think IRS means, “I’m really sorry.”

And you know that woman here in California who just had the eight kids and has six more at home?” Well, today, Tom Daschle proposed to her. He’s not in love, he just needs the deductions. “Please marry me, please!”

The White House issued a statement today saying that the reason their nominees are having such trouble is that the new White House has set the bar very high. See, that shows you what’s wrong with politics in this country. That’s what the government considers setting the bar high, having to pay taxes like everybody else in America.

And today, President Obama announced a salary cap of $500,000 for executives at banks and companies that have received taxpayer bailout money. And you know — it is good. But I’ll tell you something, you can tell a lot of these CEOs don’t get it. They said, “Well, that’s $500,000 a month, right?”

And Wells Fargo, who got almost $25 billion in bailout money, has canceled a pricey 12-day corporate trip to Las Vegas. And I think they learned their lesson, because they really scaled things back. They’re not doing Vegas anymore. Now, it’s a one-day pie eating contest in Laughlin.

And Citigroup, who received a huge bailout from the government, owns the naming rights to the New York Mets’ new stadium. It is currently called Citi Field, but because of Barack Obama’s crackdown on the Federal bailout money, Citigroup will legally have to change the name of the stadium to Money Grubbing Bastards Field.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recently said that every month that we do not have an economic recovery package, “500 million Americans lose their jobs.” I think the Botox is starting to seep into her brain.

And the US Postal Service says they may cut postal service from six days to five days a week. They say they’re losing money because people aren’t using the postal service as much as they used to. If you’d like to complain, you can e-mail the complaint to uspostalservice.com.

The new US energy secretary predicts agriculture in California will disappear in this century because of global warming. He said people in California will no longer grow crops, except those who are growing them in their basements, attics, and garages.