Jen Sorensen for May 24, 2023

The return of the tallheads!

Poppycock.

…a little over stated. There have never really been corpses all over the golf course.

When the Republicans have the White House they run up the debt. When Busch 1 began running up the debt, Chaney explained “Reagan has proven that Deficits Don’t Matter". They only become an issue for Republicans when a Democrat is in the White House and the bills need to be paid. I don’t know if it’s a strategy to run them up and then use them as a propaganda tool or if they think that far ahead, but that’s the fact.

Reagan took the deficit from 70 billion to 175 billion.

Bush 41 took it to 300 billion.

Clinton got it to zero.

Bush 43 took it from 0 to 1.2 trillion.

Obama halved it to 600 billion.

Trump got it back to a trillion.

Biden reduced it $350 billion his first year in office. And the budget office expects to see it drop by another 1 trillion, 500 billion dollars – the largest drop ever. This is despite a $1.9 Trillion pandemic relief package. The Republicans screamed about this at the time, but it is credited with funding a faster recovery than anywhere else in the world, and actually decreasing the debt further.

Interesting amount of contradictions.

This was a reminder of how, back in 2012, the GOP led Congress and then President Barack Obama squabbled over raising the debt ceiling. But when they got down to the wire, they agreed to raise it. Not to sound Polyannish, but I believe that ultimately the President and Congress will raise the debt ceiling between now and June 1st. That Speaker McCarthy is running out the clock to keep the Right Wingers (who he had to make deals with to get the Speaker’s gavel) happy and Biden is also trying to keep the left in his party onboard. But NO ONE wants a default, because that wouldn’t be good for anyone. But I am trying to stay positive on this.

Good one, Jen.

Gawd I hope it backfires spectacularly on those GOP pinheads.

Republicans cut Food Stamps for the starving and keep tax breaks for private jet planes.

If I had my way, I’d seed the golf courses with fast growing, chemo resistant, Poison Ivy.

No serous reason, I’m just a little cranky today.

I have trouble buying the third panel, primarily because it seems quite unlikely that they weren’t able to write off their joy rides into space under the existing tax code (“testing” or some such).

Run the same play until it no longer works.

There’s an idea: redevelop golf courses as low-cost housing! I can already hear the MAGAtt heads exploding! It’s morning in America!

For many independent contractors, cosmetic surgery is a work related expense. /s

Love Jen’s interpretation of the gop d——heads

Very accurate, my lady.

I believe their plan is for those slave laborers to be children . . .

This time the lesser-known death threats are mostly about subsidizing the fossil fuel industry while crippling investment in renewables.