Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 07, 2012

Relax Joanie, your gal won.

Congratulations Elizabeth Warren, and thank you Joanie for all your hard work. Too bad you weren’t awake to hear her acceptance speech ( which you no doubt wrote ).Oh, and congratulations President Obama !

One step closer to a civil war.

Well, what will be will be. God is still on the throne.

Boy, leftwing you sure were off on the EC, almost looks like you were sandbaggin’. Legal marijuana in Cowlorado eh?

I have to give Mitt Romney credit for one of the classiest concession speeches I have ever heard.

I can’t wait to hear what the lunatic fringe has to say… On second thought I can. I’m off to bed.

Well, tonite the wingnuts, Thugs and TP’s can just eat Mitt. But tomorrow’s another day. They still have far too much control in Congress. Everyone keep their powder dry! We are going to be fighting 1850′s mentality for some while to come.

We were just saved four years of going backwards as a country. Now we can work together to get it right.

I agree that we should be above gloating, but I also agree that the fight isn’t completely won. We’ll have an damn-fool Congress to confront; tho’ one would hope that they won’t consistantly thwart the President while exercising their goal to keep him a “two term President.”

Rest easy Joanie. You done good. Your gal won.

They’ll spit it up, like all poor losers.

The prediction at the start of yesterday’s comments was more than a bit off… to the relief of most of the rest of the world.

Now to hope that your Congress gets its collective finger out and stops being obstructive – paralysis is good for no-one.

See if you’re still laughing four years from now.

Just sayin’…

>See if you’re still laughing four years from now.well, true we might have had more to laugh about if Romney had been elected…but not in a good way.

I’ll give the Republicans a tip – try nominating candidates for pres and VP who don’t get laughed AT. OK, so we enormously enjoyed some of Romney’s gaffes and comedians everywhere thank you for the gifts of Palin and Quayle …George Jnr was beyond a joke because he was in a position of power. These are serious positions.

Don’t gloat Clark, the House is still with the GOP. Either way, the rest of the world thanks you for your choice!

The Reps had one goal for the last four years, make Obama a one term president. As a result they succeeded in absolutely nothing. Lets hope they come up with some real goals this time.

GT’s delighted — the Senate has its first fake Cherokee

To all on the liberal side of this election. I just want to say congratulations. To all of you on the right, quit hating and find the center. Some of you had decent points about the economy and other issues but most did not do the research needed to make a real decision nor a decent statement. Now, all of us need to come together as the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Come together and find the middle ground that we will need to put our country together again. God bless you all.

Now if the Democrats could only get control of the big city schools – they’d have that fixed in a jiffy!

Congrats on the election folks. Now comes the hard part…

VP Gore had a shout out to Garry Trudeau last night after Elizabeth Warren won!

Obama has been more like a moderate Republican than anything else, in recent years. The ultra right wingers on the GOP side has been shown the door. The goofy folks who kept talking about abortion/rape can either listen to what folks have to say or they will continue to lose until they become extinct…

here is a husband who loves his wife even as she grows older & more fragile. love that doesn’t require plastic surgery.

Congratulations to those whose candidate won! :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4v9Da5DpYo

And condolences to those whose candidate lost. :-( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh2nDpepKH4

Whatever, let’s work together to help our country!

Ladies and gentlemen: the time for finger pointing is done. Let us hope Congress and the President can work together again.

Corporations can’t dance…can’t be a part of the revolution, either!

Man it looks like President Obama will be famous some day…

Gloat gloat gloat….it has a kind of ring to it…..

To us who inhabit the rest of the universe, the difference is that between a drone and a cruise missile. Either way, we ALL lose.

Nice election prediction, rightisright. Predicting a Romney win would have been wrong, but a Romney landslide is wrong with whipped cream and a cherry on top. Are you going to change your name to wrongiswrong? Truth in advertising, you know.

To me, Willard looked relieved in his concession speech. Like he realized what he was getting into somewhere between the second and third debates.

It took a long time for rightsright to react. Here’s hoping for his constipation to continue.

So are you revving up your Excuse-o-matic™?

Go Liz, go Joannie! :)

I’m so happy, i even listened to right-wing radio for a while this morning. While I did hear some good stuff, (the Reps need to get off the social issues that caused so many to lose), there was also plenty of “unAmerican”, “moron”, “firing five people with Obama bumper stickers to get below fifty” and other such hatred. Sad.

Check out Donald Trump’s tweets. Somebody is heading toward a private padded room.

Thanks for your kind sentiments. Unlike you, Romney was very gracious, and if he had campaigned that way, he would be president-elect now (and I’m very happy I no longer need to add “God forbid”).

masterskrain said, about 2 hours ago

“And NOW starts the 2016 Presidential campaigns…”

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<Dammit you are right…..just wish we had at least one day of rest befire the nonsense begins anew.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

The multinational military-industrial-financial plutocracy WILL NOT PREVAIL. America is too great.

An old saying—Be careful what you wish for. Romney can now go back to gutting corporations to make more millions, & Obama can go back to gutting the military & the country & what it once stood for. I voted for neither of those losers.

Poor Calimesajim.Now that the election is over, I guess you will have to go back to commenting on Aunt Fritzi’s hooters over at the Nancy board…

Corporations don’t dance, and their daddies don’t rock ‘n’ roll!

Greed is not a Christian value. It’s time for the wing nuts to stop claiming to be Chrstian.

rightisrightiswrong,Congratulations on your bold prediction of a Romney landslide. Any SuperBowl picks that you would like to share? I hear the Jaguars are looking pretty good these days…

““Don’t blame me, I voted for Romney!” Get used to hearing it.”Actually, I have no intention of hearing it. I hate whiners.

@ sharuniboy

Your points are well taken. I like to think, though, that the general populace is more alert now to what the TPers are trying to do, and are “agin it,” as my old southern relatives would say. Based on the trend of the general conversation during this campaign, my hope is that ongoing partisan intransigence and nastiness will meet with much more resistance than heretofore. Mr. Romney, now that he is no longer trying to beat somebody, has the opportunity to step up to a new leadership role by fostering a greater spirit of bipartisanship among his followers. Whether he will choose that route, or not, remains to be seen. Whether he will take a lesson from the high degree of disapproval of his business methods, or not, also remains to be seen, so we don’t know whether he will go back to making money by buying up companies and then vaporizing them, or whether he will conclude he has enough money now and devote himself to higher causes. Mr. Obama has repeatedly stated that he has listened and learned from the experiences of the last four years; I’d like to think Romney and other Republicans have, too!

BTW, thanks for your comments the other day about the way the Republicans got their completely unneeded (and utterly empty) $208 M solitary-confinement prison here in Colorado (by forcing its attachment to a bill to fund a hospital). The contrast between the Republican urge to punish and the Democrat desire to help is stark.

So, between Coffman and Miklosi, which would have been the lesser evil?!

Robme doesn’t dance?

@leftwingpatriot

I don’t often have the time to actually join the conversation here, but have been “listening in” since the Denver Post stopped running “Frazz” and “Doonesbury.” Like everyone else with any sense, I have truly enjoyed your posts and the ripostes they’ve inspired. May your sabbatical from this forum be a fruitful and happy one for you and yours!

annieb, I enjoyed you post exept for these points:‘or whether he will conclude he has enough money now and devote himself to higher causes.’.I don’t think Romney will ever have enough money, it’s his one true love, and he’ll want to join the billionaire’s club ASAP;.’ Mr. Obama has repeatedly stated that he has listened and learned from the experiences of the last four years; I’d like to think Romney and other Republicans have, too!’.I believe they have proven themselves incapable of learning, and in fact have only scorn for intelligence and knowledge.

@kaffecup

Well, you may be right on both points, although I hope not! I guess we’ll see…

hey, there, rightisright!

“T-minus 10 hours to the beginning of the ROMNEY LANDSLIDE.”

“ROMNEY LANDSLIDE ON THE WAY!”

heh.

Everybody, don’t look for any GOP cooperation with the Obama administration over the next two years. Since Obama won re-election, both GOP Senate leader McConnell and GOP House speaker Boehner have made defiant statements regarding cooperation.

In my opinion the only hope for Obama’s mandate, won last yesterday, is that during the next two years, Obama makes the case to the American electorate, that he cannot accomplish his mandate against such defiance. He needs more VOTES on the Hill. He needs a DEM majority in the House and a 60-vote, filibuster-proof DEM majority in the Senate.

The only hope is for the mid-term elections to sweep away the Tea Party still remaining in both House and Senate. Remember that ALL House seats are up in 2014. As well as a THIRD of all Senate seats.

It’s a tough assignment, but IT CAN BE DONE.

Speaking of winners and losers has anyone heard about Netanyahu congratulating Obama yet?

“Speaking of winners and losers has anyone heard about Netanyahu congratulating Obama yet?”Actually, yes, they said on the news late last night that Netanyahu had in fact called him with congratulations. I don’t think they hate each other as much as would make the media happy..BTW, Pi, I’m hoping Harry Reid will grow a pair and put restrictions on the filibuster at the beginning of the next Congress, when rules are set. I have NO doubt that had the republicans won, they would have abolished it instantly.

Welcome to 4 more years of a no growth economy, a hollow military and endless benefits for the dem voters on welfare. Hope my leftist friends are happy. As for me I am going to keep my head down and hope the blowback doesn’t cause irrepairable damage to this country.

Welcome to four more years of blah-blah-blah. We survived Bush, you can survive a center-left administration.It might help if you cut back Fox viewing to 8-10 hours a day.

One sad, but indisputable fact that I find ironic. Had the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Bob Perry,Harold Simmons and Carl Rove spent their money on think tanks that might come up with viable solutions instead of wasting the millions ( billions ? ) on mean spirited, ineffectual media attacks, perhaps the outcome would be different. Tragically, their very hubris caused their downfall – or I should say, loss of " investment ". No quid pro quo this time !Imagine how much of our infrastructure could be overhauled with that money !

Sleep well, Joannie…you did nice work. Warren is going to become an important ally of Obama and reality in the Senate.

I won’t gloat. I’ll just be grateful that we will be moving forward as a nation. That Obama will be naming any supreme court vacancies. That women’s rights won’t be sacrificed in ‘the name of God’. That the extremists won’t be controlling a weak puppet president Romney.

Sweet dreams Joanie — you did your job well and your (our’s too) gal won!!