Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 28, 2012

could be worse. could be that the class started yesterday and it is one of those 3 hour, 1 per week class.

BD is a therapist pro bono. You go, dude!

It used to be very important to at least make an appearance for the first class or the professor may have droped you from the class. In today’s university setting Ray may make the “quorum” needed to justify the class.

Ray’s doomed to repeat history.

Either that or it is all over vu deja!

Love Doonesbury. Great to see Garry highlighting real problems that in this case involve Vets who have returned from war with problems. In the past some would have swept it under the rug as happened to often during the Bush years. Good to see more being done in any case. Thank you to Mr. Trudeau for his talking about this and other important social issues all these years!

Trudeau’s point is that Ray is still disconnected with reality. The point is NOT about the consequences of Ray’s tardiness or lateness. Capiche?

Isn’t this the re-reun about the history proffesor whom is a progressive?

‘Time to shame the republicans into making sure our wounded vets are properly taken care of.’unfortunately, you can’t shame those who have no shame..I’m hoping that when GT comes back, he’ll do an arc on the republicans trying to pick Obama’s cabinet for him.

“… you can’t shame those who have no shame.”

Indeed not. That’s why I’m hoping that the American electorate will deal the Republicans another blow at the polling places during the 2014 midterms. Enough of a blow to give the Democrats a majority in the House of Representatives. It would have to be a so-called “wave election”, the kind that upsets the pundits on both sides.

The Democrats are far from ideal, as we are reminded by the likes of Amy Goodman et al. on Pacifica radio and by Ralph Nader, he of seatbelts-in-vehicles fame. But they’re light-years ahead of the Republicans in terms of dealing with America’s problems.

Ya gotta start somewhere. So start from where ya are.

It would be nice to throw them all out, but the consequence of dispirited Democrats not voting in 2010 was the expected gerrymandering. Hopefully, people will catch on to the fact that republicans don’t care in the slightest for this country and clean house.Fun fact: the Democrats actually got one million more House votes than the republicans, but they were too diluted to do much good. Maybe next time…

Ray. The quintessential Obama voter.

‘The quintessential Obama voter.’You mean, someone who, although wounded serving his country, is still trying to better himself and move beyond the trauma on his own? You bet, an Obama voter. No republican would do any of that.

“… there were dispirited Democrats with such long lines in the 2012 election …”

Part of the GOP Karl Rovian “voter suppression” strategy. Gerrymander by cramming as many likely Democratic voter neighborhoods into one district and giving them only one polling place. Since Rove knows they’re also working Democrats, influence their corporate employers (Wal-Marts, etc.) into not letting them off work to vote. Hence they have to vote after work. Many have to get someone to babysit the kids. Then they have to stand in these looong lines, maybe in rain and cold, maybe having to wait till long after the 8:00 poll closes.

Meanwhile Rovian strategy has engineered easy voting for Republican districts, many polling places, short lines, etc.

“Dispirited Democrats”? I don’t think so. These working folk are the real heros of Bronco Bama’s win in the battleground states of 2012. Exit polling showed: There were the young. There were the women. There were the Hispanics. There were the Blacks.

And when the numbers came in, Karl Rove had a public nuclear meltdown on Fox News for all the world 2C.

It can be done again in 2014. It MUST be done again in 2014 because Bama leaves office in January of 2017. We need majorities in both House and Senate to get ANYTHING done.

Mark my words.

mt and pi, you did see that I said 2010, didn’t you? A non-presidential election, all those “broken” Obama promises, the media telling us he was a failure… You do realize the Democrats lost the House by a wide margin, right?.Obviously, this year things were looking up and the Obama ground game was great. As well as people realizing they couldn’t sit home and see rmoney become President.

Agreed.

Look, it said a complete sentence!

Also, after ignoring the memo about Bin Laden 9/11 happened, of course. Then the Iraq War! Failure after enormous, miserable failure! Is the debate that the GOP really wants? Well, OK. Let’s have it…

And Lindsay Graham and John McCain were all in favor of Condoleeza Rice as SOS after her miserable failure in that whole matter…

Lindsay Graham and John McCain should be ashamed of themselves and so should all these other Rs who keep politicizing something which is not political. Miserable, horrible hypocrites!

Being part Irish, I can say this, I think McCain is suffering from Irish Alzheimer’s. You can only remember your grudges…

McCain is still holding a grudge over 2008. Susan RIce accused him of just walking around in a flap jacket at some point in 2008 campaign and I don’t think he ever forgot it. Too bad. He needs to get over it. Be bigger than that, John McCain. Make your mama proud. Move on.

Kaffekup, I guess you are right, they should probably stick with Susan Rice, but you know Elizabeth Warren did win by 8 points, Scott Brown is not unbeatable in Massachusetts…

Ray is undergoing cognitive therapy, BD’s compliments.

What a crock. This country is not, and should not, be run according to your religious principles. Would you want it run according to mine? And yes, progressives are frequently religious people, although I doubt you can comprehend that.