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   dtroutma said, 4 months ago

   Teddy Roosevelt would use the “big stick” on both Boehner and McConnell.
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   Gypsy8 said, 4 months ago

   Where did that one-term presidency go Mr. McConnell?
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   Radish said, 4 months ago

   @Gypsy8

   They’re still working on it.
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   Clark Kent said, 4 months ago

   If only this ’toon was accurate.
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   StCleve72 said, 4 months ago

   I think my views are shared by many other supporters of the President who helped elect him to his second term. We don’t want him to compromise with the Republicans, we want him to stand up to them, back them down, divide them so that they’ll either have to move back towards the center or be politically dead. Hopefully at that point the Democrats will form a right and left wing and work towards representing everyone’s interests and find that middle ground upon which true democracy depends. The Republicans have moved from right of center to the lunatic fringe and since Reagan, have done everything they could to destroy the middle class and transfer all wealth to the 5% of the population who control most of the wealth in this country already. On the social front they want to move backwards to the days when everyone knew their places; white men in charge and in power, women in the kitchen, negroes at the back of the bus, gays in the closet, and dissenters silently cringing in fear in the hinterlands. It’s not hard to believe that these extremists in the House of Representatives would bring back slavery if they could. When President Obama took office four years ago their avowed goal was to destroy his presidency and if they took the country down with him, so be it. They had lost the election after a disastrous 8 years of the W. Bush presidency in which the country was nearly bankrupted and our credibility destroyed around the world and acted as if they had a mandate. They lied, slandered, and vilified Mr. Obama in a treasonous, poisonous manner. We sat by horrified as the President was called a liar during the State of the Union address by a representative of the old Confederacy, which by the way, Romney pretty much swept and without which he would have had about 70 electoral votes. So the Republicans can pretty much be accurately described as the party of racism and discrimination, and in my opinion, they could have run Charlie Manson or any other white person for President and he would have carried those Southern states. They’ve tried to rig the elections and disenfranchise the poor and elderly, and these knuckle dragging reactionaries, bag men for big corporate interests, whores to the 35,000 lobbyists running around D.C. have practiced the art of Russian negotiation, best described as: we want everything and if you give us everything we want more. The President should compromise with these haters of democracy and inclusion? Most of the economic gains in the past decade have been by those that already have the most, isn’t that true? We elected him to get some of that back for us hard working people who aren’t ruthless enough to steal it as the corporations have done with impunity for decades or to have been born to wealth and influence like the Romneys and W’s of the world. I’m an Independent in outlook and I vote for the candidate, not the initial, and I recognize the urgency to have a true two party system, but passing off the lunatic fringe as a legitimate party gives no room for anything but fighting back with every means available, or the middle class and upward mobility is history in this country.
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   charliekane said, 4 months ago

   Mass grave unearthed. . .
   Ideological cleansing suspected. . .
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   ruff said, 4 months ago

   @

   Pardon me, but it was Hermann Göring, and Joseph Goebbels, and Adolf something..
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   parker for a minute said, 4 months ago

   @StCleve72

   well said young friend. absofreakinlutely
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   cjr53 said, 4 months ago

   @StCleve72

   I totally agree with your post. Excellent!
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    onguard said, 4 months ago

    @cjr53

    So you’re both into Dem Lib Fabrications.
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    Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

    Shot in the backs by liberals. Now hand over your guns.
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    Zuhlamon said, 4 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    Another meaningless troll post.
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    StCleve72 said, 4 months ago

    @onguard

    I’m neither a Dem nor a Lib. My points of view don’t fit neatly into any ideology and I don’t agree with anyone about everything. I reserve the right to form my own views on every issue and I’ve always been a wild card in any group to which I’ve belonged. I view name calling (and labelling) as fit for a kindergarten schoolyard so onguard, why don’t you present your point of view, how you see things instead of just making a silly statement that does nothing in the way of making an argument. Does your response simply reflect the simple-mindedness of the Rush Limbaugh school of vitriol, or do you have well thought out positions that you can present in a civil and coherent fashion? President Obama inherited a catastrophic mess and in four years the stock market, housing market, job markets have improved and my point is that if the Republicans had worked with him things would be much better for everyone instead of just the elite 5%. And according to you, that’s all wrong, and so tell us your narrative on things and then perhaps there can be a meaningful and productive dialogue, okay?
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    wmconelly said, 4 months ago

    Actual elephant skulls have HOLES right in the middle of their foreheads where the hose attaches. I’m not drawing any parallels of course…
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    Dycel said, 4 months ago

    StCleve
    Excellent posts.
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