boyle and christopher buckley.o you wrote this before the world knew that president obama ate puppies as a little boy. >> if you look at the acknowledgements page in the back you'll asee that it is dated june 21, 2011. i crossed the last t dotted the last i. >> bill: it takes a long time to get a book out. as we know. >> it is a bit of an antiquited industry -- antiquated industry, books. but the publisher wanted to hold it until this may. which last june seemed like a long way off by my math. 11 months. and every time china was in the news, in the last year, i would start to chafe and twitch and call them up and say gosh -- they said no, we'll keep it as a may book. it came out this week. and two weeks ago our commander in chief introduced the subject of canine cuisine. >> bill: at the white house correspondents' dinner. >> so i'm very grateful to the president for putting his shoulder behind my book tour. it was very considerate of him. >> bill: i've read all of the others. i just cracked this a little bit. knew

christopher buckley knows how to ♪ >>> author christopher buckley made a huge splash with his best sellerg" and then it became a blockbuster movie. >> one of the leading names in political satire. his new novel focuses on china called "they eat puppies, don't they?" >> good to be here. >> very nice to have you here. i do like hillary clinton. >> before you came in, charlie said, you are one of his favorite people. i saw a shot of you in the green room. you were cracking up. what did he say? >> he's one of the funniest people. look at the book he's written. read what he can do with a line and understand it. so, satire, tell me about satire and the place it plays today. >> well, satire is tricky in america today. you're in a losing competition with tomorrow's "usa today." i finished this book a year ago. if you look at the acknowledgment page, you'll see it's dated june 21, 2012. and it came out, you know, yesterday and two weeks ago, president obama was kind enough to pre-promote the book by making -- introducing the subject of canine budgeting. > yes, i was thinking about you. >> very nic

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[applause] >> >> i am christopher buckley from the book hitch 22 through xiii through xv.is from the paperback edition another element of my memoir, of the stupendous importance of love, friendship, solidarity is from more recent experience. i cannot hope to convey the full embrace but offer a crum of accounts so if there's anybody known to benefit from a letter or visit to, do not to postpone the rating for the may gain of it. the difference made will be more than you have calculated. because of my life is combating superstition. when it can france the dread on which it feeds. our culture regards it as normal for the godly to admonish those who are expiring. and edifice of fabricated deathbed conversions the highly questionable assumption though i could have chosen end to take offense my convictions, what and then sold to and non sequitur i was grateful for the heavy attention i received. it gave my a atheism a new lease on life. [laughter] and helped me to keep old been a long to pay to say it would not be true at any time. with extending a prayer breakfast on what was d

numbers like that remind me of a quip from christopher buckley."writing political sat tire can be difficult because it has to compete with reality." $317 for one job under the president's stimulus. second, obamacare -- the $2.6 trillion bill is not aging very well. since its passage, the act has imposed an estimated $14.9 billion in private-sector burdens, aproarks $7 billion in costs to the states, and $58.6 million annual paperwork hours according to a weekly regulatory report. the april kaiser health tracking poll showed that more americans have an unfavorable view of the law that favorable. it is 43% to 42%. more than half of americans oppose its central provision, the so-called individual mandate. all tolled, the new taxes in obamacare would add up to $500,000,000,000 in ten years. many of these taxes will coincide with the biggest tax increase in history, the one scheduled for the end of this year. so at the very time that the income tax rates are scheduled to go up, the new taxes from obamacare will hit, $500,000,000,000 of new taxes over th