Bill Maher: “This is the party, really, of John Ashcroft and Dick Cheney and George Bush and Tom DeLay.”

But this is what’s so weird about it. The actual news is pretty good. The economy’s going through the roof. We added 531,000 jobs in October. That’s a big number for one month.

You can never really figure out the rhyme or reason why somebody has to go and somebody can stay.

They announced the lineup: Vanilla Ice, Milli Vanilli, Morris Day, Bret Michaels. I think this is very admirable about the president — it shows that he's concerned for the unemployed.

I've been moaning and railing about that on my show because, I mean, I tore Merrick Garland a new one a couple of weeks ago because I think the Democrats blew it as they always do with this kind of stuff because they've had four years.