Tom Toles by Tom Toles

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Anthony 2816 said, 3 months ago

He got tired of being a puppet for eight years.

He got tired of being blamed for things done by Rove and Cheney.

He got tired of hearing that he’d go down in history as the worst president ever.
HUMPHRIES said, 3 months ago

Anthony, not much more to add.
Bill Ewing said, 3 months ago

NOW look what you have, a lying mouth piece for George Soros, Bill Ayersl, the corrupt Chicago machine, et. al.

Be proud, be very proud!

Also, beware, they just haven’t come for you.

YET!

You are the swamp critter that will be eaten last. For the time being they still need you. Watch your back.
arinte said, 3 months ago

Yep, replace cheney with Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayers, or in a few years the living idiot we have for the vp or with rob emanuel or however you spell his name.
iamthelorax said, 3 months ago

Compare that with Biden’s memoire:

“Today they took pictures of me eating a hamburger with the President.”

Seriously, that’s the most important thing I’ve heard him work on yet. Does Biden do anything?
David said, 3 months ago

Run out of material, Toles?

This is a pretty tired old line.
billdog said, 3 months ago

Ah, the Shrub, the village idiot for a village named Crawford! Gone, but not forgotten, thanks to new whining from Darth Cheney!
DrCanuck said, 3 months ago

Have y’all noticed you can tell which side of the political spectrum a new poster on these pages is, simply by counting the number of spelling and grammatical errors?
HUMPHRIES said, 3 months ago

DrC, to hell with grammer, look at the memory deficit and distortion. Must be Cheney’s editing staff.
NoFearPup said, 3 months ago

What’s a word for someone who sees faults in others, but can’t see those same faults in themselves? (And I’m not talkin’ ‘bout spellin’).
Norman said, 3 months ago

Now we have a more skillful LIAR to replace Bush.
LLeRay said, 3 months ago

I wonder if the right-wing echo-chamber couldn’t find, or couldn’t afford, to buy educated hacks to haunt these pages.
iamthelorax said, 3 months ago

You’ll have to forgive me on that one Dr.C. My reflex is to use French spelling on French words. I assure you liberal French people will do it too.
DrCanuck said, 3 months ago

NoFearPup said: “What’s a word for someone who sees faults in others, but can’t see those same faults in themselves?

DrCanuck responds: The word is “Republican.”
dtroutma said, 3 months ago

Cheney will rampage on how his boss chose to disobey him, and like Gepeto, he was only trying to cut strings that controlled his dummy. (Ventriloquist=dummy-string controls mouth, strings to body parts=marionette, on the hand=puppet)
Cheney=failed martinet.
harleyquinn said, 3 months ago

Funny, W was doing well there for a few years. Then toward the end he started listening to the left. So if Dick is writing that he stopped listening to him at the end, my guess is he does not want to be blamed for the 1st stimulus. That and maybe W did get stupid at the end when you stop listening to those who can help you the most.

Oh well, now we have this guy who is never on the same page as his boss and will speak his mind.
meowdam said, 3 months ago

Cheney must have flipped out the first time GWB refused to go along, wow I bet the paint peeled
tpenna said, 3 months ago

You folks do realize that the VP’s constitutional responsibility is to have a pulse, right?

So, iamthelorax, you shouldn’t be surprised to see Biden doing mostly ceremonial tasks. Why are you concerned about what he’s been up to? He stated going in that his goal was to scale back the office of the Vice President.
Anthony 2816 said, 3 months ago

HQ: “…maybe W did get stupid at the end…”

At the end???

HQ, did you never listen to Bush speak at the beginning?
Dale Hopson said, 3 months ago

Love how Bush referred to the financial melt down last October as a “Wall Street adjustment”…
wittyvegan said, 3 months ago

Where is ANandy blaming this on Obama?
iamthelorax said, 3 months ago

Really? The VP is supposed to do nothing? LMAO! I assumed he was supposed to be doing something important. Cheney was always up to something, makes sense to me that the Vice-President was chosen because he’d be great at xyz task….are you serious? I’m speechless…..he’s as useful as the Queen? Smile and way, smile and wave, wait to see if the President dies? I thought we were the only ones with high-paying useless positions.
harleyquinn said, 3 months ago

Wow TP your wrong again. The VP is the president of the Senate. Now of course he can only vote when they orchestrate a tie like they did for Gore. But it is his job to know what is going on so he can step in, heaven forbid, anything does happen the the Prez. Kind of hard to do when he has shown more then a few times he is not on the same page as the BIG O. But Joe did say he wants to “scale back” and even move the office so as to avoid his job.
4uk4ata said, 3 months ago

I think that Dick Cheney was much more than a glorified tie-breaker for Senate votes, HQ.

I have not seen any signs that Biden does not intend to do his job. That he does not (so far) show any desire to be anything more is means he is simply doing what his job is. You make it seem like Cheney did a good thing when he tried to overreach his constitutional prerogatives.
harleyquinn said, 3 months ago

Where 4 did he do that????????
richgrise said, 3 months ago

They’ve got the wrong face and initial on the puppet. The initial should be “O”, and I’ll let you
do the math.
tpenna said, 3 months ago

Actually, harleyquinn, I’m not wrong. The job of president of the Senate only comes into play on those rare occasions when there is a tie. All the other responsibilities of the president of the Senate have long been given to the president pro tempore (who is an actual senator). (As it happens, the president pro tempore has also handed his duties off to junior senators for a long time now.)

You seemed concerned that VP Biden was somehow not doing his job because you didn’t hear about him doing much. He _is_ doing his job, harleyquinn. He’s breathing. As soon as a tie comes up in the Senate, he’ll do that, too.

Don’t presume to give me a civics lesson. As I recall, it was the VP candidate for the Republican party who couldn’t correctly answer a child’s question about what the vice president does. Perhaps I might even go so far as to guess that you voted for her?
harleyquinn said, 3 months ago

Oh he is breathing but he is not ready to step in. You have to be aware of what is going on and the agendas the guy above him is trying to do.
Plus he is THE LEADER OF THE SENATE! His only assigned power in that LEADERSHIP role is to break a tie. But he is one of those pesky checks and balance that was built into our system. For DECADES the office of VP was with the Senate.
tpenna said, 3 months ago

Dick Cheney much? This much should be clear: the Vice President is an executive office. And we should be clear about what the office of President of the Senate actually is. The President of the Senate is the parliamentarian for floor debate. This person does not lead the Senate so much as facilitate the deliberations. Oh, and preside over the General Assembly for the tabulation of the Electoral College vote (again, a parliamentarian duty).

And there is no constitutional requirement that the Vice President be aware of anything regarding the President’s agenda. I thought you conservatives were supposed to be strict constructionists when it came to the Constitution.
dtroutma said, 3 months ago

tpenna, if the real “righties” fawning over Cheney ever actually READ the Constitution, they would protest it. Actually when a survey actually did read the Constitution to them, most “righties” DID reject major portions of it!!

To be fair, not all those on the right of center are nuts, just those who don’t realize Cheney repeatedly violated the document, and yanked his boss’s strings.
ynnek58 said, 3 months ago

I’m not a Rep, not a socialist, but the damage done to the Rep party by Bush and Cheney will take years to overcome. His fault too – they had a chance to do it right a totally dropped the ball – he’s a dope.
striper77 said, 3 months ago

The chief liar’s is charge of the house, senate and president.
striper77 said, 3 months ago

Obama will go down as the worst president ever.
motivemagus said, 3 months ago

striper - he’d have to sink a lot more to get below Dubya Bush, who I think currently outranks Warren Harding – who at least knew he wasn’t cut out for the job.
NoFearPup said, 3 months ago

You democrats better think twice about your “slash and burn” politics. I don’t recall too many people being upset with Bush for six out of those eight years. You Dems are doing the Union a disservice and will deserve the loss of respect you are currently inculcating in the electorate.
rekam said, 3 months ago

Bravo, motivemagus. You hit the nail on the head.
striper77 said, 3 months ago

When Bush was in office all the liberals causes did not advance. For instance abortion, gay rights, higher taxes, gun control, bestiality, child molesters, NEA, ACLU, NGLTF, liberal judges appointed, PETA, NAMBLA, green peace, tree huggers, fur huggers, stem cell research, abortion over seas by tax dollars, etc. Nor did Bush bow down to a middle eastern prince, belong to a racist Muslim church for 20 years, nor was their anything stated that he was born in Kenya, questions on his birth certified, Muslim affiliation, nor did he give 780 billion dollars to liberal causes, nor did he bankrupt the nation, nor did he blame everything on Clinton, belong to the mafia, the list could go on and on.

When Bush was president he did not steal the election through ACORN, giving cigarettes to the homeless, or help from the black panthers, NAACP, KKK or any other racist group.
motivemagus said, 3 months ago

Bush lied to the American people to get us into two wars that destroyed our economy and strained our military – and Afghanistan was justifiable only if you were going after Osama bin Laden, which Bush abandoned (remember how “dead or alive” suddenly became “he’s irrelevant?”) to go into Iraq. He alienated all of our normal allies save the UK and Australia, and actually cost Tony Blair his popularity ultimately there as well. He introduced the Patriot Act, which is an amazing invasion into American lives, wiretapped Americans illegally and then insisted Congress make it legal retroactively; he protected the Saudis in this country after 9/11 – the ONLY planes to take off on 9/12 had Saudi citizens, including members of the bin Laden family. And you think Obama bowed down before middle Eastern princes? (I’m ignoring the fact that Bush’s father put American soldiers on the line for a domineering kingdom.)
He also forced religion into public life, undermined science systematically in favor of oil companies and religious groups, and created the biggest (and arguably the least efficient) bureaucracy in history with Homeland Security, introducing invasive and ineffective security measures in airports while ignoring more effective methods (like X-ray machines that actually detect plastique!).
NFP, LOTS of us complained about Bush – you just demonized us as “unpatriotic.” But we believe in the Constitution, too, which Bush has done his best to undermine.
Deal with it.
Anthony 2816 said, 3 months ago

Puppy: “I don’t recall too many people being upset with Bush for six out of those eight years.”

Now that’s a truly amazing comment.

Hard to tell if it’s a lie, a typo, an indication that you slept through six years, or the same type of self-delusion you use for your religious beliefs, or just a contribution to the frantic rewriting of history like Cheney is doing.
senorbullwinkle said, 3 months ago

DOC, you would have the thousand point Daily double on that answer to poopy pants. I’m still laughing.
senorbullwinkle said, 3 months ago

STRIPER, When I see these people walking their dogs, I often wonder if they’re ” doing it “, dont you ? And I would never guess at what they do with those Chihuahuas !
You’re awfully brave. I never mention those people that you do, for fear they will come to my house in the middle of the night, and have their wild way with me, over and over and over, all night long.
dtroutma said, 3 months ago

Bush showed his true being as “governor of texas” when he ignored the Pope and every religious leader in the world, and giggled as he ordered Karla Fay Tucker, born again, and doing great good, executed. He went downhill from there. He didn’t use acorn to steal an election, he used his brother and the much less than supreme court. He LOST THE POPULAR VOTE- TAKE A HINT!
parkersinthehouse said, 3 months ago

don’t look now but stripper is back with his favorite words

“For instance abortion, gay rights, higher taxes, gun control, bestiality, child molesters, NEA, ACLU, NGLTF, liberal judges appointed, PETA, NAMBLA, green peace, tree huggers, fur huggers, stem cell research, abortion over seas by tax dollars, etc.”
M Kitt said, 3 months ago

Nice summation, Motive. You’d need several books to contain the entire eight years (or several paragraphs, condensed) but that’s a good start.

I’m supposing that we’ll eventually have full grand jury investigations of several issues from that administration but we’ll have to bail out the economy first.

Regarding systemic political flaws, campaign financing would be a nice place to begin reform of our system, enforcement of the seperation of church and state comes in a close second in my list priorities. These particular problems provide “cover” for a lot of questionable activities as well as sustaining them financially.
senorbullwinkle said, 3 months ago

PARKERINTHEHOUSE, YOU’RE BACK ! But you missed, “Beastiality” ! Dont you know, all us Democrats do it.
Welcome Back !
striper77 said, 3 months ago

You stated Bush lied to get us in the wars. I believe he was looking at reports from the CIA, the effects of 9/11 and other items. The President can only be at war for 30 days, then Congress has to approve it. It has been way over 30 days and the democrats have not stopped it. They could of immediate and failed to do. The democrats approved the war as well.

You spoke about alienated allies. I was in the military under Clinton. The other countries hated us then to as well. If you are in a tourist area they want your money. If you get out past that they will do anything up to killing you for it. I have seen this first hand.

The Patriot Act was an attempt to find terrorists in America. Obama is doing the same thing but for political reasons and to go against fellow Americans that do not have the same views as he does. That is at least 50% of the population.

You spoke about special treatment of Saudis then complained about forced religion into public life.

You complained about Homeland security then want more invasions of privacy at airports.

You then complained about the war for oil, then you want more money spent on electric cars etc.
The last three kind of offset each other, due to they are a double standard.

Remember as quick as the fuel prices went up so can electric.
The cap and trade if passed will make electricity higher than fuel, so the eclectic cars will be more expensive than fuel.
ynnek58 said, 3 months ago

motivemagus
You are right, but Obama is making a good faith effort to eclipse Bush – sure, it’ll be tough, but if he works real hard at it, and he’s got a pretty good start, he might just get there (and that’s saying something!).
parkersinthehouse said, 3 months ago

hey thanks bull! i missed y’all. through a seismic trio of blunders on verizon’s part (ooooooo don’t get me started) i’ve been with screwed up lan line and no internet for about a month, spending my cell minutes trying to rectify. so now i’m calm until the bill comes. then we go ‘round some more.
motivemagus said, 3 months ago
striper - to save time, I’ll go through paragraph by paragraph:
1. The Democrats gave in, true, but Bush had plans to enter Iraq long before 9/11. When the CIA insisted on giving facts to the White House, Cheney went around them and got his own sources to justify going into Iraq – like convicted fraudster Chalabi. They knew there was no excuse.
2. I don’t know what you’ve seen, but Europeans loved Clinton. Still do. I spend a lot of time there.
3. The excuse put forward for the Patriot Act does NOT justify destroying Constitutional rights to do it. You know what Ben Franklin said about that. And your latter part is simply unwarranted (and demonstrably false) assertion.
4. Yes, so?
5. No, that’s not correct. I want effective security at airports. Taking off our shoes is useless (they can’t detect plastique at better than chance levels), and the whole “liquid explosive” thing that forced everyone to carry around 3 ounces of anything was pure fiction. There’s no such explosive you could fabricate! So why do this? Just to keep us scared and submissive? And why did we allow FedEx trucks to sail through and load planes with no screening at all?
6. No, you’re mixing things again. The reason to move to electric cars is (1) because there are more sources of electricity than oil, (2) we may well have passed peak oil, meaning we’re running out and it’s only going to get more expensive, and (3) reduced climate impact through non-fossil-fueled sources of power. It’s not primarily because of the cost, though that is a contributing factor.
ReasonsVentriloquist said, 3 months ago

You guys are wrong about the Veep. Yes he is the tiebreaker in the Senate, but, thanks to Thomas Jefferson who was stabbing John Adams in the back, the Veep is not allowed to SPEAK in the Senate and be involved in it’s day to day activities.

Jefferson did this so that Adams would have to sit there every day and do NOTHING.

As to Biden dialing back the office of the Veep. What? You spent all that time in the Senate, you’ve run for POTUS several times, the country is teetering at the brink of disaster and you want to be ceremonial? Can’t you take some of the tasks that don’t require your speaking to the public or the press, and run with them?

What about glad handing and arm twisting in the Senate? You’re supposed to be good at that stuff! That’s why the electorate gave the Oval Office to a nominal Senator, because they figured they got experience with Biden!

Unreal!