Jim Morin for November 05, 2014

Is there some kind of secret code that only you know that makes this about either party? I don’t see GOP, Republican, or Democrat anywhere in the cartoon. Methinks maybe you’re a troll.

Come on, Jim, you know the government can’t afford social programs. That money is needed to buy weapons that the Pentagon doesn’t even want.

So we get to spend the next two years watching the Tea Party and the Republican Party fight it out. When they occasionally agree on something, and manage to get enough Democratic votes to pass it, they still have Obama— who just ordered a new ink pad for his Veto stamp. But, things have steadily improved under Obama with no input from congress. I just don’t feel comfortable with nothing getting done unless the president does it himself, since he has no other choice because congress is useless.

Well, you got what you wanted, Republicans. Good luck using it. After six years of being the “Party of No,” and selling your souls to the Bircher-hard-right, what makes you think things are really going to change?

Ah come on,you are using facts in a mud slinging blog. BTW; I agree w/you. :) Peace.

So many people voted for the party that obstructs, stonewalls, and assists in the rape of the middle class!Amazing, and dis-heartening.

You can’t blame the previous administration! You have to blame whatever the most recent Democratic administration was (you can go back three or four for variety).

And yes, pointing out facts IS blaming, because the way facts and the GOP work, stating something accurately amounts to the same thing.

I thought that the left believed in stimulus spending? It is only a guess, but I would wager that the campaign money went to American industries and employees in greater percentages than the funds allocated to the 2009 Stimulus.

By th way, this cartoon may also foreshadow the next two years:That tractor/trailer is configured so that it cannot turn either left or right. The only choices are backward and forward.

Neo, I need a job. Could you use another butler?

“Fast and Furious was not a Bush program. But keep lying. Bush had Wide Receiver. The guns had RF trackers. Wide Receiver was canceled and most of the guns were recovered when it was found the cartels were removing tracking devices. Over 1200 cartel thugs went to prison.”-Thank you for correcting the record. I don’t understand the defense that, because the Bush Administration ran a gun tracking program and then aborted it when it proved to be potentially harmful, it is somehow the Bush Administration’s fault that the Obama Administration conducted a more reckless gun tracking program which has actually led to harm and then proceeded to obstruct attempts to investigate what went wrong.

Below is a source that compares Operation Wide Receiver with Operation Fast and Furious. It indicates that 1,400 arrests occurred in connection with the former program. This seems to be in addition to any arrests that may have occurred in Mexico, as we had coordinated Operation Wide Receiver with Mexican authorities (for some reason this was not done with Operation Fast and Furious).-http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/25735100377/the-differences-between-wide-receiver-and-fast-and-The contrast between the two programs is striking. I understand that the Bush Administration could be criticized for some flaws in its gunwalking programs, but the program is less objectionable than Fast and Furious by at least an order of magnitude, and again, the Bush Administration did not attempt to obstruct subsequent investigations into the program. It is more of a mistake in my mind to create a false equivalency between the two programs than to focus on Fast and Furious, which was by far the more problematic operation, and by the Administration’s Nixonian attempt to avoid accountability for its errors.

Reading your source carefully I notice that it does not so much say that Operation Wide Receiver was not coordinated with Mexican authorities as it does that coordination was poorly executed and unsuccessful. Eric Holder has admitted that Wide Receiver was coordinated with Mexico while Operation Fast and Furious was not:-http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/1108/Fast-and-Furious-flawed-US-agent-s-death-regrettable-says-Eric-Holder-Note that Wide Receiver took great effort to track the guns involved in the program, and that the program was stopped after it became apparent that guns could not reliably be tracked. This minimized the damage of the flawed program. By contrast, Fast and Furious did not attempt to track the guns it dispersed into the criminal population. Fast and Furious continued in spite of this flaw until two guns from the program were discovered at the site of the murder of a US Border Patrol agent:-http://humanevents.com/2011/10/07/no-operation-wide-receiver-does-not-excuse-obama-or-holder/-And the Bush Administration did not obstruct investigation into Wide Receiver. As stated in the above-referenced article:-“And, of course, there was no massive cover-up of Wide Receiver. No senior Administration officials committed perjury to distance themselves from it. The ATF was not exactly advertising the existence of the operation, or its unhappy conclusion, but that’s very different from the thick stone wall Obama and his people tried to build around their far larger and deadlier operations.”