April Fools filled with political pranks

It s April Fools Day and the American political class seems to be struggling with the concept producing more groaners or unfunny and untrue stories than laugh out loud jokes.

This morning the Yale Daily News kicked things off by reporting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was heading to New Haven as a professor and would be teaching classes on the Arab Spring and the worldwide empowerment of women. She isn t.

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Pennsylvania politics website PAPolitics posted four year old video of now Sen. Pat Toomey saying he was considering running for governor but said the footage was from this past weekend indicating Toomey was considering challenging incumbent Governor (and fellow Republican) Tom Corbett. Toomey cleared it up quickly.

To paraphrase LBJ I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for governor tinyurl.com/cuujevf Senator Pat Toomey ( SenToomey) April 1 2013

Disgraced former Ohio congressman Bob Ney took to Facebook and announced he was starting a business with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff called Fresh Ideas. The group was going to advise House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on comity and ethics training.

And the White House hyped the 10 a.m. release of a video from the President. The video came from Kid President real name Robby Novak.

It looks like you re expecting somebody else. But April Food s on all y all Novak said. I m Kid President and I hope everyone has an awesome day.

There were some better efforts.

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus who has a very funny name took to Twitter to make fun of his name.

To make Republicans energy efficient gop is partnering with toyota to release the Reince Prius

Reince Priebus ( Reince) April 1 2013

Americans for Tax Reform Chairman Grover Norquist mocked one of his group s enemies billionaire investor and Obama backer Warren Buffett. Buffett s namesake rule would tax all income above $1 million at 30 percent. So Norquist announced Buffett and shareholders in his company Berkshire Hathaway would start voluntarily donating that amount to the federal treasury.

My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire friendly Congress Buffett said (not really) in ATR s (fake) press release. It s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice. Today I Warren Buffett am personally getting serious about shared sacrifice.