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   4my10851cs said, 4 months ago

   yea, but it’s what O wants
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   rightisright said, 4 months ago

   Doping by a supreme dope.
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   rvernon said, 4 months ago

   Petty and stupid cartoon.
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   Harleyquinn said, 4 months ago

   He is also such a great leader he can not get the super minority to work with him so it is all their fault and they are poopy heads and he tells it like it is and the way it will be… it all the other guys fault and the fact the D has been in control of the purse since 2006 and the R has had what 1q house in the last 2 of the last 8 years it still all their fault they will not listen to his greatness and do what they are doing.
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   Harleyquinn said, 4 months ago

   anyone else hear his last speech of this term? Good thing I do not drink or play drinking games. Could have gotten blasted with all the “fair” this and “blame them” drink up. And when someone called him on the dept ceiling and his hypocrisy he blamed it on the R wanting grandma to eat dog food and Children, the poor poor pitiful children that might go with out, and to spice things up he threw in those who look for radiation and bomb making stuff might not be paid? what? the guys who look for wayward fusible material will not be paid if he does not get what he wants, and the R will be the bad guy if what? a radiation bomb goes off? what a leader …. not
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   NebulousRikulau said, 4 months ago

   Wasn’t that the Bush War strategy?
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   Radish said, 4 months ago

   Its the American way.
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   Respectful Troll said, 4 months ago

   Liberal cartoonists used very similar images to show conservatives making claims that the tactics they used in the past would be the ones that would save us.
   The problem is our legislators want a Republican solution OR a Democrat solution. They not only want a party specific solution, but they want one that will leave them in control of Washington DC, America, and the world.
   We need an American decision. And we need respectful and thoughtful Americans to make those decisions.
   This is a wedge cartoon. It hammers a wedge between Americans. If you have a piece of cherry, oak, or other good wood with which to make a beautiful piece of furniture, you don’t want to turn it into firewood. We’re destroying the “Tree of Liberty” with divisive attacks on each other and insults. And as a great American once said, “A house divided against itself can not stand.”
   Respectfully,
   C.
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   Kylie2112 said, 4 months ago

   The economy has been on the upswing for almost 4 years. In the eyes of the Republicans, of course that’s not how it should be working. If a Democrat is in office with a strong economy, no one will vote for them!
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    Respectful Troll said, 4 months ago

    Separate concepts deserve separate comments. On the “Doping” aspect of this cartoon, one of the tools used by our government to pull us out of the depression was the ending of prohibition. Alcohol distributors were so happy to have it legal, they did not protest the high taxes attached to “sinful” liquor.
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071113193005AAJFdPr
    The link is where I learned an ounce of marijuana sells for $125. But I know from my corrupt youth and the ‘bad crowd’ with which I associated, it doesn’t cost ten dollars an ounce to grow, unless you’re growing indoors and/or trying to keep it hidden. I bet Marlboro could do it for much less than that.
    Let us assume, for argument sake, an ounce costs $15 to produce, package, and distribute to vendors. $15
    We allow $5 profit to the producer. $20
    We allow the stores selling it a $5 profit. $25
    We give $10 to the “town” where it’s grown. $35
    We give $15 to the “town” where it’s sold. $50
    We give $35 to the state where it’s sold. $85
    We give $40 to the Federal Gov’t. $125
    Profits can be used for education, healthcare, punishing those who allow minor access to the drug-(like alcohol) and then there’s the BILLIONS of dollars that won’t be spent on keeping people in prison, prosecuting people, and it will cut deeply into the profits of drug cartels.
    Every million ounces sold gives enormous revenue to businesses, growers, towns, states, and the Federal gov’t.
    Alcohol makers from Bourbon to beer don’t want it legalized. The drug makers of Zoloft, Paxil, etc. don’t want it legalized.
    The drug cartels don’t want it legalized.
    Legislators who take money from lobbyists of the Alcohol, Drug makers, and Cartels(remember, HSBC helped channel money for Iran and Drug Cartels) do not want it legalized.
    Marijuana has been found to have medical use and no longer meets 2 of the three requirements to make it a Schedule 1 narcotic. It’s time to use it as a resource instead of a way to keep otherwise law abiding Americans working in corporate factory prisons.
    Respectfully,
    C.
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    Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

    The biggest dOpe in the world.
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    mikefive said, 4 months ago

    In 1937 they did tax increases and spending cuts while the economy was slowly recovering from the Great Depression. Those actions resulted in a recession in the midst of that recovery. The Democrats are pushing tax increases and the Republicans are pushing spending cuts. If they are both successful, since they are both pushing the recipe used in 1937, I don’t understand why they think that what they are doing will help the economy. Things like “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”* and “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”* come to mind. It is understandable that the general public would not be cognizant of some of the details of the Great Depression, but it is unconscionable that the people making decisions for us in Washington also seem unaware of those details.
    ♦
    *Albert Einstein
    *George Santayana
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    furnituremaker said, 4 months ago

    @Respectful Troll

    Jesus wasn’t an American
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    Respectful Troll said, 4 months ago

    @furnituremaker

    I’m confused.
    confusedly,
    C.
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    rvernon said, 4 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    No, it’s not. It’s juvenile name-calling. Cartoons are supposed to be more than that.
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