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I missed this for the last 3 weeks. The 10 pm to 10:30 pm time slot was a lonely, desperate time for me. But now that The Daily Show (and for that matter, The Colbert Report) is back on, I can satisfy my frustration from politics through the mocking of government and media. And oh man, it feels good.

Of course, my last post was making fun of Glenn Beck and various other right-wing extremists who made all too much of the president's speech to school kids. And while that was targeting crazy Republicans, it was more about people who put partisanship and political gain ahead of doing what's best or the people who live in this country.

It goes both ways, which is why Nancy Pelosi is one of my least favorite politicians in Washington, and she is a Democrat. From a few months ago when she said she had no idea that the Bush administration had authorized torture, and then later when she actually did know but couldn't do anything about it, and then when she did know and could have done at least something, but chose not to - to now when she says that the house of reps is past the Joe Wilson "truth-tourettes" and then 2 days later passing a resolution to make him apologize on the house floor.

I may be naive to think this is possible, but can we please stop with the petty, selfish partisanship? Can we at least avoid stupid, meaningless actions like forcing a Congressman to apologize after he had already done so and said apology been accepted? For crying out loud, there are regular American citizens with more sense than some of these people. Get something done that matters, and stop trying to seize every opportunity to squeeze all the political points you can out of one man's mistake.