Tom Toles for October 09, 2014

I hope it rains, and I don’t mean megabucks from Heaven!

I thought I saw scaffoldig up again in a shot on the news the other day, didn’t they just do this a short while ago?

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.” — Oscar Ameringer (1870-1943) Of course, he wrote this eighty or ninety years ago. Now, everything is different. Isn’t it?

Brilliant!

Given the recent decisions of the Supremes and absent a constitutional amendment that has zero chance of passing, I believe we have already chosen the latter.

Need to add a vacuum hose.

The money used to come in through the back door, but today, our pols are so arrogant and brazen, they now take the money out in the open, right in front of us, smug in the knowledge we will do nothing but grumble.“This contribution in no way affected my vote!”

Note that this is an issue BOTH sides can agree on!

Obama says that he has to run the country as best he can on his own because the Republicans refuse to do their job. This simply makes it clear that he doesn’t understand what the Republican’s job is. The Republicans in congress are doing their job very well. If they can’t accomplish anything that Obama won’t veto, then they can stall so that the Democrats can’t accomplish anything either. Their intention is to keep everything just as it is, unless they can manage to return to the “good old days” of the 19th century, before there was a middle class and when only the landed gentry were voters. And, they have a great strategy for accomplishing this. 1. Disenfranchise everyone you possibly can, unless they are dependable Republican voters.2. Produce ads and media emphasis which emphasizes those politicians who are corrupt and incompetent. Paint all Democrats with the same slime. Lacking sufficient actual slime, simply make some up. This undermines the people’s trust in their government and makes them feel like helpless pawns, so they tune out the whole process and accept the status quo. 3. Support the “job creators”, who are the recipients of a huge portion of the GNP, although that GNP was produced by working people, who are receiving less benefit from it every day. This gives them the money to accomplish the other two goals, and leaves everyone except the “job creators” with increasingly less money to mount a counter campaign. So, this is the way we are going lose the middle class and become a country inhabited only by the very rich 1%, and a 99% who are too busy working two jobs to survive to notice.

They’ll notice, but they’ll know better than to say anything.

The rest of the building has not worked for years.

It’s good to remember that all the bribes campaign contributions can be legally kept for personal use as long as they are declared as income.

It seems to me that the choice has already been made, don’t you think?

Looks to me like, if you turned it right-side up again, it could be used as a plunger. That way, you could cram even more *@%& in with the rest of it.

I would like to magnify OPEDNANCE’s suggestion that you purchase, or read at the library, the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine’ piece about the Koch family.AND, tune in sometime this week to catch John Oliver’s 15-minute piece about ASSET FORFEITURE. It is really shocking to realize that this is legal in this country!

yes. that is part of the made-up lies of cherry-picking.

you are so correct!