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  1. Ken Warren

    Ken Warren said, about 1 month ago

    Here is my advice to you conserevatives: don’t bother responding or commenting on this cartoon, there is no need to, you have won.

    Kick back and relax, you will be back in power after 2012. The reason I say this is that we liberials have come to relealize what the Republicans have known all along: The Democrats are wimps.

    Just compare 2000/2004 with 2008. In 2000 the Republicans lost the popular vote, and might lose the Electorial College, so they ignored the Constitution (the House should have been the one to decided the election) and got their guy decared President.Then they just took off.

    They had an agenda, and put it into effect – no tiptoeing in, no “that was close election so maybe we should go slow” no reaching accross the aisle - just “Were in power and this is what we are going to do!”

    In 2004 they won by a slim margain, so they declared it a “mandate” and that was that. If you disagreed with them you were with the terrorist – or maybe even terrorist! The President was all powerful, so just shut up and eat your “Freedom Fries” while we run everything.

    Now compare that to 2008 – the Demoncrats won by a landslide – they control the House and Senate, and don’t need any Republican votes to pass anything they wanted. AND WHAT DID THEY DO?

    That’s not a comment, it’s a real question – I can’t think of any single thing they done, except to keep asking the Republicans “is it alright if we do this, if you say no then we wont do it.”

    We voted for “Change” yet nothing has changed. Health Care was going to be their number one issue, but all it took was a few shouts of “death camps”, “illegials getting health care”, “socialism” and it’s dead.

    Just think what would have happened to any Democrate who called Bush a “liar” during one of his speeches to Congress, the Republicans would have picked the guy up and thrown him out of the building, then passed a law they he could never come back, and had him recalled and thrown out of office in a week. The Demoncrates? Well they did (I think) tell the guy he was rude – although I dont’ know if they used such a strong word.

    All the issues we Liberials cared about will die a slow death, or more likely, never be considered. The Democrates will keep reaching out to the people who will never vote for them, most of Americans will grow tired of all anger and shouting, and of nothing ever getting done, and vote for the “Party Of Change” - the Republicans.

    And they will know what to do – tax cuts for the rich!

  2. Jase99

    Jase99 said, about 1 month ago

    Come to realize? Just now? I learned that during the Clinton Administration just before leaving the party.

    Look, if you want change, demand it. Write to or call your congressmen and the White House. Tell them you support the public option. Do you think the Republicans are just sitting back? No. They seem to be winning because they are vocal. Nasty and unruly, but vocal. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, so start squeaking.

    To steal a line from Dylan Thomas, do not go gentle into that good night.

  3. pbarnrob

    pbarnrob said, about 1 month ago

    The squeaky wheel gets the grease; until it gets too squeaky, then it gets replaced!

  4. akibono

    akibono said, about 1 month ago

    So, the extreme left policies and agendas and nominations have nothing to do with It?

  5. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    aki, there are two new parties. The real liberal party of this country died as did the real republican party. They current groups are just corporate toadies now.

  6. wwward

    wwwardGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    I wonder if the 5th estate gets the same health care program Congress is on? Maybe that is why they are trying to destroy the best health care system in the world?

  7. ray32648

    ray32648 said, about 1 month ago

    Define “best”. 50% more expensive with considerably poorer results. Maybe your next appointment should be with an ophthalmologist to get those rose colored glasses removed.

  8. BOB HASTY

    BOB HASTYGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    AW!!! The impatience of youth will undo us all!!!!

    A true cynic never is defeated.
    A defeatist is left to comment wistfully on cartoons!!!

    Obama has not even had time to replace 90% of Bushes US Attorneys. He’ got a multitude of challenges. He has only been in office 8 months.
    I’m glad he’s not giving in, and giving up!!

  9. Gary Kleppe

    Gary Kleppe said, about 1 month ago

    “So, the extreme left policies and agendas and nominations have nothing to do with It?”

    No, those only existed inside your very vivid imagination.

  10. charliekane

    charliekane said, about 1 month ago

    Democrats are aggravating because they are not doctrinaire. Remember Will Rogers observation on the subject.

    And, two things you don’t want to watch being made: sausage and legislation.

    We’ll cook up some and see if it’s fit to eat when it’s done.

  11. charlie555

    charlie555 said, about 1 month ago

    Not all Republicans are conservatives and not all Democrats are liberals.

    Not all conservatives are Republicans, and not all liberals are Democrats.

    “Pigs is pigs,” except when they’re not pigs.

  12. Jase99

    Jase99 said, about 1 month ago

    Those policies are only “extreme left” to those looking at them from the extreme right.

  13. experiment626

    experiment626 said, about 1 month ago

    I don’t understand why my fellow Democrats are so fatalistic.Single-Payer is the real answer to health care,as most of our modern democratic allies decided long ago.Imperfect as the Public Option is,President Obama needs to force a vote to show who’s trying to solve the health care problem and who’s happy with things the way they are.If health care reform does fail it will be a pyrrhic victory for the GOP.

  14. Magnaut

    MagnautGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    single payer….deja moo…move to Canada

  15. Ken Warren

    Ken Warren said, about 1 month ago

    Back in July MSNBC had one of their panel discussion about health care. It had the usual talking heads, but also a well know comedian.

    The discussion followed the usual path: this might/might not happen, because of this/and that, maybe this/maybe that, then the comedian made the follow comment.

    “Let’s see, on one side 47 million uninsured Americans - 47 million men, women, and childred - on the other side a few rich corporations. It’s a no contest, health care will lose.” and everyone laught at the joke.

    Turns out it was no joke.

  16. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, about 1 month ago

    “deja moo”? Might you mean “déjà vu,” Magnaut?

  17. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Nice weasel…

  18. trudyjh

    trudyjh said, about 1 month ago

    “the best health care system in the world”

    That’s what you think ranking 17th in infant mortality is? Best?

  19. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, about 1 month ago

    …and 27th in overall healthcare? And 35th on life expectancy? (Behind Canada [#6], France[#7], Sweden[#8], Switzerland [#9], Spain [#16], Norway [#17], and the UK [#25]. Yeah, those socialist states (ha!) have such crappy healthcare…)
    See the CIA World Factbook for 2009. Yes, our CIA.

  20. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Uhhh, we’ve been through your fake statistics before, Libs…Sayin’ it don’t make it so.

  21. mustbeunique2

    mustbeunique2 said, about 1 month ago

    I press for peace, no taxes.(period) Those that cant work because we dont pay their paychecks with our tax money, need to find another forced labor to survive occupation(job).

  22. leipsicbob

    leipsicbob said, about 1 month ago

    TheophilusPupGenius_badge said, about 7 hours ago

    Uhhh, we’ve been through your fake statistics before, Libs…Sayin’ it don’t make it so.

    Yup. And the Conservatives stats are absolutely gospel truth …

  23. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, about 1 month ago

    Pup once again rejects the facts with no response.

  24. ray32648

    ray32648 said, about 1 month ago

    Real statistics vs no statistics, Pup. The Big Lie and innuendo ain’t working. Back ‘em up or shut up.

  25. charliekane

    charliekane said, about 1 month ago

    Why use facts, logic or reason when yer gurus and yer Faux News tells ya how ta think!

  26. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    the fifth estate is who exactly? Lobbyists? They’re the first among non-equals, aren’t they?

  27. Magnaut

    MagnautGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    motivemagnus. you’re much better at placing the accents correctly…deja moo….I’ve heard this BS before.

  28. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Anybody who wants to turn the world economy upside down because they THINK, they’re RELATIVELY CERTAIN, they ALMOST KNOW FOR SURE…they’re 99.8% CERTAIN (and , remember these are evolutionary-type syncophant-dilettantes)…that a half-degree increase in the global earth temperature in the last 30 years means our industries are making too much CO-2 - that my friends is crazy, precipitate and ill-advised. Ergo, one must consider that the marxists are indeed looking to apply there doctrine of incrementalism to the only thing they fear more than sweltering summers: a nation founded on individual freedom.
    Don’t you Dems think you have more important things to do before the next two election-cycles?

  29. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, about 1 month ago

    Sigh. The difference between the current climate and the last ice age is somewhere around a couple of degrees, last I checked. That’s average, remember – it gets much colder some places and warmer in others.
    And we call the ability to find these things out “science.” Might want to look into it sometime.

  30. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    And what caused the last Ice Age, sir?

  31. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, about 1 month ago

    Didn’t we discuss this once? There are natural cycles, including the irregularities in Earth’s orbit, Draysonian tilt, and whatnot; and normally we would have been in another Ice Age already. It is thought the reason why not is because of our impact on the climate, throwing off the normal balance, or, if you will, recentering it.

  32. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Pup. The next time you treat a severe infection, use an out dated antibiotic. You see, bacteria adapt to antibiotics by sharing plasmids. Plasmids are a small bit of DNA that encodes for an enzyme to disable the antibiotic or render the bacteria safe from the antibiotic through cell wall changes or receptor modification. Because you don’t believe in genetics…IT MUST BE SO. So try your little genetic experiment and let me know how it goes.

  33. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Motivemage, Have you heard about the increase in sunspot activity in the last 25 years?

    ahab…MISFIRE… I do “believe” in genetics. What is your point?

  34. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    My sincere apologies pup.I misunderstood your “evolutionary-type sycophant dilettantes” statement as a cut on evolution . I see it was clearly meant as a descriptive term. I still feel global warming is a very real threat. You can realize that there are vegetation or bioclimatic zones in which only certain plant communities survive. In Colorado the Alpine zone has been replaced by the subalpine zone previously lower on the mountains. As a result plants and animals present from the last ice age are becoming extinct such as the mountain pica. The west has lost 1/3 to 1/2 of all the aspen stands. Increased invasive species of grasses have caused increased wild fires. MILLIONS of trees are dying across the west. The warmer winters allows pine beetles to thrive in lodge pole pines. If this is happening now, just imagine what your grandchildren will face.

  35. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    If world famine results the Chinese may call Americans “round eye snacks”.

  36. NoFearPup

    NoFearPupGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    ahab, I’ve looked it over - and I have no idea why I put the cut at evolution in there…Maybe my zeal spilled over from other pages…