Tom Toles for September 19, 2012

You KNOW Romney’s got trouble in river city when even uber-conservative guru Bill Kristol is calling his remarks, ‘stupid’ and, ‘arrogant’

And in the Weekly Standard no less!

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/bill-kristol-romney-remarks-arrogant-stupid

Sometimes the truth is a little too harsh for some people and maybe shouldn’t be said. Kinda like telling the ugly girl in class that she really is ugly.

Harley wrote: “No he said it is not his job to worry about the mucher class that will vote for Obama because they think Obama will buy them a pony.”-So, as a member of the MOOCHER class, is mittens going to give you a pony?

“And won’t be.” Got that right, Toles!

misoiFor decades anti-tax and small-government conservatives complained that income taxes were only supposed to be paid by people with the largest incomes, and that it was the fault of tax-and-spend liberals that, by the 1950s, a majority of Americans had to pay them! Go figure. Once, all of Federal revenue came from taxes on alcohol, tobacco, etc., and on import duties on various goods. Funny, I don’t remember conservatives fighting free trade agreements lately, or supporting trade protectionism. So they evidently don’t want to do back to duties as a chief source of revenue. And you don’t hear them wanting to increase the taxes on alcohol and tobacco or (say) harmful “foods” (“social engineering from the nanny state”), or anything else. And since they want to CUT taxes on large incomes, the only possible conclusion is: They have abandoned the principles their predecessors held. They want America to reneg on it promises and obligations, knowing that raising taxes on the poor (which they seem to advocate) will never replace the revenue lost by cutting the taxes of the affluent, and even eliminating everything they want to eliminate in Federal spending won’t come close to balancing the budget. At least the Democrats are willing to also bear all the burdens that they would impose on the country. If the Democrats are the Tax-and-Spend Party, the Republicans have proven to be the Spend-and-Don’t-Tax-Us-but-Tax-the-Other-Guy Party. Or perhaps we could keep it simple: The Deadbeat Party.

The 47% breaks down like this; 25% retirees, 15% unemployed, and 60% working poor. Romney has effectively said, “Screw you” to the AARP and the people who work at low wage jobs to keep food on the table,the people who are trying to find a job, the people who have given up in despair along with the welfare queens our friends on the right are so fond of pointing to. Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater!

It’s “moocher”, Shakespeare. And the 47% includes seniors who’ve paid into Social Security their whole lives, veterans who’ve put their lives on the line, people working two full-time jobs… and they all pay taxes in other ways.

How Mitt and the right-wingers envy the lucky, lucky poor!

And what about all those irresponsible One-Percenter business owners that need Government handouts?The Bankers, Oil Barons, Mega-Farmers, and such?You know, the guys that needed something like Bain to show them how to make a profit. Usually starting with eliminating unnecessary positions and reducing labor costs, i.e. firing people. And now that they’re making a profit, why should they rehire the people that were wasting all of those profits by expecting to be PAID for a good day’s work.

Yes, Mitt – you COULD have chosen your words more carefully… “47 percent of the American people pay no income tax…” Actually, Mitt, it’s 46 percent, but I see where you’re going with this – the other 1% is the 1% you represent, who would LIKE to pay no income tax. “My job is not to worry about these people; I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” Really, Mitt? REALLY??? That’s EXACTLY part of your job, if you would be president, but you just don’t get that, do you! Yes, Mitt, you could have chosen your words more carefully – I’d suggest these: “Today, I withdraw my candidacy for president of the United States – I’ve come to realize that I’m not worthy of this position of leadership, and don’t really understand what a president is supposed to do.”

Harley – I voted for Obama and have never received one of those IRS checks – have you been stealing my mail? :-)

“No he said it is not his job to worry about the mucher class that will vote for Obama because they think Obama will buy them a pony.”Yawn

LOL Just like I predicted yesterday. Not yawning much NOW, are you harley?

And no, it’s the other way around. The red states ( like yours ) are the moochers, not the blue states

One more note and I am gone. That same study said that over 87% of those working paid income tax. In other words, less than 13% of workers paid no income tax. The bulk of the 47% were retired, disabled, children, students and unemployed.

Yeah, who’d want to eat grapes that sour, anyway?

LOL!

Harley claims to have teaching certificate you know.

( But I think he lives in Texas, so it might be true. )

Not sure what the stink is about. And why are you putting retired people on SS on this list, Us retired people are tired of the 47 % using an ambulance to take them to the emergency room to fix their sore toe and charging it to medicare which I paid for and they did not. Or the lazy butt that is on SS disabilty becasue of thier bad backs? and them saying the old people are bankrupting us. Or the professors at colleges whos pay and benefits make up 92% of the budget and cry proverty. I leaning republican do not mind giving some one a hand up it the increasing number of hand outs that get me upset

I never knew Jack Kemp was a liberal dem

lapdog media. you mean fox?

mikefive, Some military who are low rank (=low pay) and who are in combat zones earning combat pay, pay no federal income tax on that combat pay which is income tax exempt. But maybe they are just moochers, like the rest of that 47% that Romney has no interest in.

Mike Five: Is that why so many “Other Ranks” are on food stamps, while generals get no-work-high-pay jobs with “defense” contractors after retiring with big pensions? Sure, the average is high, but one millionaire can bring the average up to a livable average for a whole bunch on minimum wage.

BRILLIANT cartoon!

Isn’t it a pity that a man like this, who DESPISES the poor and the needy might become president? Who thinks middle class is $250,000 a year? Who thinks corporations are people? Who’s own taxes are so offensive that he won’t allow anyone to see the forms? What a disgrace. What an embarrassment.

For all you racists that agree with Mitt’s dog whistle message:“The people who receive the disproportionate share of government spending are not big-government lovers. They are Republicans. They are senior citizens. They are white men with high school degrees. As Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution has noted, the people who have benefited from the entitlements explosion are middle-class workers, more so than the dependent poor.”The Fox misinformation program and people like Ima and Harleyquinn are spreading a very different image of who these people are. They are US.

The longer this campaign goes on, the more likable Canada is looking.

To get back to the comic strip itself: I think this is one of the best combinations of art and dialogue I’ve seen in quite awhile. Together they work in perfect harmony to make the point. Look at his “lord of the manor” pose on the horse, look at the horse (who looks arrogant himself, somehow or other). I can easily see the last panel becoming a poster or bumper sticker or wallpaper.

No, Ima, it’s not time for O to leave quietly. It’s time for him to be president, as the only adult option we have left. If Romney wants to try something new, he could try being presidential for a change. It sure isn’t coming naturally.

“If you “get” a check you usually sign it on the back. If you sign it on the front you are SENDING it, not “getting” it. .What an idiot. but it made a nifty little (mindless) sound-bite there ididn’t it? Must have gotten that from limbo or another propagandist talking head.”-It’s a ‘joke’ that circulates among the right wing set: What’s the difference between Willard voters and Obama voters? A. Willard voters sign their checks on the front and Obama voters sign their checks on the back.-The implication is that Willard supporters are fine upstanding people who pay their bills and Obama supporters are deadbeats who live off welfare. Harley garbled it, maybe to reduce the racist element in it.

TOLES = irresponsible. Ask Massachusetts if he didn’t care about ALL the citizens of Massachusetts while Governor. Eventually the same anal-retentive standard you Libs apply to Republicans will be held overe you, too. Babying the Barak can’t go on forever…

Any one heard any info about what ‘accidentally’ got missed when that recording ‘turned itself off’ for Carter IV?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/19/romney-s-two-minute-gap.html

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/09/romney-video-missing-one-to-two-minutes-135987.html

anyone else get the sense that Harleyquinn is a drunk? All the misspellings and odd, nonsensical rants. He’s worse than a troll, he’s just a true waste of time. Ignore the drunks!

Harleyquinn, after working continuously for over 35 years, I was able to retire and begin collecting pensions and social security. I will pay a significantly lower income tax after this year. I am now largely dependent on government-derived or government-guaranteed income. My wife and I have substantial savings to augment this. But we will soon be dependent upon Medicare for our long-term health needs, so this will mean even more reliance on federal benefits. So don’t go blathering on about “moochers” [THAT is the correct spelling, you moron] voting for Obama. Many of us have earned the right to expect government benefits, and a gazillionaire bozo like Romney does not appeal to us.

mitt made millions when bain was bailed out by the feds (and our tax dollars).

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-federal-bailout-that-saved-mitt-romney-20120829

@SEYBERNETX

No the feds had to bail out chrysler and GM as i’ve stated many times. Heavy manufacturing in the country is a NATIONAL SECURITY issue. in the next, inevitable ground war, who would we buy our weapons/aircraft/ground vehicles from, china? korea?

Plus economically it was a brilliant move to keep an entire state of hard working families in their houses.

my point is that romney makes himself out to be a business turnaround expert, when in fact a good part of his fortune came from a morally bankrupt, unethical maneuver that put millions of our taxpayer dollars in his and his friends pockets.