State of the Union by Carl Moore
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State of the Union is the result of a self-professed "fallen liberal’s" journey from radical socialism to conversative cartooning. Combining startling caricatures with a sly sense of humor and a sharp eye for satire, this innovative new strip will be sure to tickle your funnybone while making you think.
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Radical-Knight
said,
about 1 month ago
XD
dsped
said,
about 1 month ago
Carl is correct, but one must also consider that it took the Republican controlled congress of 2005 - 2006 only one year to drop from a 45 percent approval rating to 21 percent … only 3 points higher than the current historic low, and a bigger one-year drop than the 2007 - 2008 Democratic drop from 37 percent to 18 percent.
BTW, what on earth is a “repuplican”?
Contrarian said, about 1 month ago
dsped
Great catch! The Batman slip, and now this.
Ronshua
said,
about 1 month ago
Dumb and Dumber or Dumber and dumb , truth is truth !
Two peas in the same pod .
sablebrush5 said, about 1 month ago
Why are the approval ratings for this Democratic congress so low? I thought the wave of new Democratic congressmen … oops, congresspersons… was a repudiation of the much hated Republican congressmen… oops, congresspersons… Hmm, seems the tax-and-spend Dems have worn out their welcome in, what, nine months?
Or is it the goofy pronouncements and behavior of those paragons of Democratic wisdom, Nancy “Botox” Pelosi, and Harry “Where Am I?” Reid?
In 2010, the Republicans will retake 50 seats in the House and seriously threaten the Dem majority in the Senate.
And what will that get us? 5 cents and a cup of coffee.
Vasmosn said, about 1 month ago
It seems to me that the reason the Democratic Congress is rated so low is because they are not doing what they were voted in to do. I guarantee if they were to push through health care reform, get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and close Gitmo their ratings would go way up. I doubt seriously that the Republicans will retake the House but hopefully some Democrats with a spine will come in.
gbrucewilson said, about 1 month ago
Vasmonsn, The only one you got right is Iraq and Afghanistan. The polls clearly show the people do not want to close Gitmo or implement Obamacare. So, Obama is on the wrong side of all the issues, when compared to public opinion. Obama’s election is a good example of, “be careful what you ask for, you might get it”.
kensurg
said,
about 1 month ago
The reason that Congress is rated so low is that they continue to spend other people’s (taxpayer) money and we really have nothing to show for it. Wouldn’t it have been refreshing if when we voted for change, we voted for change in Congress as well (i.e. all new house and 33 new Senators)?
cabrobst said, about 1 month ago
The reason it’s so low is that they continue to TAKE other people’s money (insurance companies) and the American people don’t get what we want.
Shoot ALL the lobbyists and half the congressmen.
Lewreader
said,
about 1 month ago
Isn’t America Great.As long as I cast my ballot, I can say “Why’d I vote for that idiot?” or Don’t blame me, I voted for the other guy’
For some reason, nothing much happens on Capital Hill year after year. Could have those wise men who thought of three branches of government foreseen this and acted accordingly? Thank God they did..
We will have another election and in the meantime—-Pray they keep on bickering and don’t pass any meaningful legislation
GJ_Jehosaphat
said,
about 1 month ago
OMG! The RePUPlicans have finally found a way to make themselves more lovable, cute, cuddily - by genetically crossbreeding with PUPpies! Just in time for 2010!
DemoCATs are ready to take even more seats away from RePUPlicans & Democrat Blue Dogs that vote down the Public Option in Health Care Reform!
Contrarian said, about 1 month ago
Politics is a shell game, and we are the mark. It’s impossible for the mark (or victim) to win. The game is rigged against us. It’s all a fraud and confidence trick. The shell is money and favors. The pea is the peabrain choice we are given. And the lobbyist is the shuffler or operator.
Unemployment will stay above 9% through 2010 according to the Federal Reserve, and Democrats will get thumped by an electorate whose short attention span fails to recall that this whole mess started under George Bush.
Who, really, is to blame? I propose that we look in the mirror.
Libertarian1 said, about 1 month ago
The Republicans control Congress and the people realize their sole aim is to get re-elected and will do whatever is necessary to accomplish that. If that means spending other people’s money and selling their souls, so be it. The public gets wise and throws the bums out.
The Democrats control Congress and the people realize their sole aim is to get re-elected and will do whatever is necessary to accomplish that. If that means spending other people’s money, selling their souls and reneging on campaign promises, so be it.
The Western European countries go through cycles where first the conservatives win (France, Germany, and Italy) and then the Liberals win (England, Scandinavia) because neither philosophy can run a big government.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. ”
-Benjamin Franklin
When are we going to realize big government not only doesn’t work, it can’t work. It begins with the inherent corruption of then “ins” and continues with the ease of getting re-elected by taking from one group and giving to another.
Yet, we keep on pleading for our bloc to win and expect they will solve the problems the country has. If the schools are bad, Washington is just not able to solve the problem. It never has been able and never will be able. And when Washington attacks a national problem they screw up the solution so badly that the country faces the inability to meet its debts. See social security and medicare.
jack75287 said, about 1 month ago
This strip is right today!
dsped
You are right but after you go so low you just can’t fall that much more. The real thing that has bothered my about Democrats is that after they loss power it was like they went into some sort of depression. Even more left because they couldn’t be in control. Congress Woman Patricia Schroeder said she was leaving because Newt Gingridge made it so it wasn’t fun anymore. Come on she had a job that people would go blind to have.
HARVIN GWIN said, about 1 month ago
There is just one party in the US.The millionaire’s party.Dems and Reps are all members and you aren’t.Not one of the people you elect year after awful year cares anything about you.Popularity polls are a distraction for the stupid herd of Americans who believe their government cares if they are alive or dead,hungry or sick…or poor and unemployed.
Stop deluding yourselves.Your vote like your life is utterly meaningless to American leadership.
Contrarian said, about 1 month ago
To paraphrase Carl Sagan–we have spent trillions and trillions of dollars to solve problems that still plague us.
The federal government was never intended to be so large and powerful.
We have sacrificed our freedom and liberty to a government that feeds on debt and taxes.
America is bankrupt morally and fiscally.
Yet, Washington will tell Big Business that they have failed.
Oh, really?
The federal government is $11.8 trillion in debt, and counting.
usdebtclock.org
Is that how Washington measures success?
Thomas Jefferson would not let this government stand.
WickedCrazy said, about 1 month ago
I will never vote for an incumbent again.
GJ_Jehosaphat
said,
about 1 month ago
After yesterday’s “ooh, ooh, this is such a great country to live in - let’s deport those illegal/undocumented invaders from Mexico”
TO TODAY”S
“America’s Congress is Dumb (Repup’s) & Dumber (Dems) and are a bunch of taxation thieves!”
OK - so what is America - The Greatest Country in the World OR totally F**# like some of the commentor’s point of view.
The America I live in is full of beauty & natural resources that make living here worth all the taxes I pay out every year.
sablebrush5 said, about 1 month ago
Congress’ economic stimulus package failed to stimulate the US economy and increased the US’s economic deficit to heights undreamed of by their predecessors. Their nationalization of major US corporations like General Motors, their cash-for-clunkers program to stimulate the US auto industry and their massive encroachments on the banking and financial industries have done nothing to increase economic growth in the US and indeed, unemployment has reached generational highs.
And yet, rather than reconsider their belief in vastly expanding the size of the federal government’s control over the private sector, Congress has insistently pushed for further governmental control over the US economy in their drive to takeover the US health care industry.
This congress is a bad joke and the laugh is on us.
Ronshua
said,
about 1 month ago
Saddest true story I’ve read all day .
Gordon Gekko everyone .
Mac said, about 1 month ago
America *is* the greatest country in the world but even the greatest politicians in the world are only politicians – so of course they’re tax thieves, even here.
Radical-Knight
said,
about 1 month ago
Marker
DavidDow said, about 1 month ago
Approval ratings, particularly about Congress, are not worth much. People do not vote on Congress. They vote on their own senators & representatives. Furthermore, Congress’s approval rating has not broken 40% in three years, and it spends most of its time between 25% & 30%, pretty much where it is now. The Republican Congresses had some embarrassingly low numbers over the fourteen years when they tried to wreck America.
Vasmosn, I agree with you that the Democratic Congress isn’t showing enough spine and that the temporary grief they would take after passing health-care reform would change once people saw how health-care improved in a few years AND once they ceased funding these two foolish occupations. Why must we continue to fund Bush-Dick bloody fiascos? Not even those extremely few rabid regressives here can find any Bush-Dick “achievements” or say a good word about these pointless occupations (though they were gung-ho—while hiding in their basements—when these invasions began).
Contrarian, I agree with your remarks of last night, though any predictions are not worth much. As for the debt, most of it comes from fifty years of the military-industrial complex. We could have spent so much less if we had chosen to help people rather than kill them.
Libertarian, Benjamin Franklin didn’t say that remark about insanity. It’s a quote from Narcotics Anonymous. You may be right about “big government”, but what do you propose?