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With his singular style, Tom Toles tackles the complex issues of the day. This Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist skillfully targets political, economic and social concerns — in particular complicated environmental issues — with a clear-eyed precision that hits the mark every time.
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cjr53 said, about 1 year ago
Coming along slowly, but it is coming along. What is missing from this picture are all the ropes the republicans have tied to the non-runnng runner that are holding him back, and the rest of us.
dtroutma
said, about 1 year ago
Boehner and McConnell buried the baton.
walruscarver2000 said, about 1 year ago
@dtroutma
You mean they are playing “hide the baton”?
Ms. Ima said, about 1 year ago
Obama doesn’t want the economy to recover. He has worked hard the past 3.5 years to destroy it.
zoidknight said, about 1 year ago
@cjr53
Sorry, but you democrats had 3 years to fix things and all you did was make things worse. Stop blaming us for not blindly following your bad ideas.
zoidknight said, about 1 year ago
@Grainbelt
According to liberals and democrats, yet.
NebulousRikulau
said, about 1 year ago
@zoidknight
Come on! Be fair!
It took Bush/Cheney 8 years to get the economy into the shape it was.
And even then there were a couple of spikes that made it look like things were going to improve.
meetinthemiddle said, about 1 year ago
@NebulousRikulau
Actually, the national debt was about $1 trillion when Reagan took office. It was about $12 trillion when W left office, with a detour in the Clinton years when there was a budgetary surplus.
So, it’s really taken 30 years of concerted Republican policies to produce the mess
ronald rini
said, about 1 year ago
don’t worry they will make more government jobs to bring the unemployment down
sjc14850 said, about 1 year ago
@Ms. Ima
Have a nice nap. You’ll feel better and maybe make some sense.
cdward said, about 1 year ago
@zoidknight
You fail to understand that adding jobs slowly is better than losing them quickly, as was the case for the Republican party and its policies.
pdchapin said, about 1 year ago
Let’s be honest here. Politics in Washington have sunk any coherent recovery strategy. Neither the Democratic or Republican approaches have actually been tried. The ball’s been allowed to fall between them.
The US is rapidly becoming ungovernable. If Romney is elected you an expect Democrats to take revenge for the last four years by blocking everything he tries.
lonecat said, about 1 year ago
@Ms. Ima
If you’re going to make stupid comments, they should at least be entertaining.
masterskrain said, about 1 year ago
Just remember folks, Will Rogers put it best when he asked;
“If Pro and Con are opposites, does that make Congress the opposite of Progress?”
That’s the truly sad part of the system we have today. If Obama gets re-elected, every Republican in Congress is going to do whatever they can to be sure NOTHING he proposes will pass, just like Turtle-Boy McConnell has been doing for the last 3.5 years.
BUT, if Romney gets elected, every Democrat in Congress will do the EXACT SAME THING!
End result??
MORE gridlock, MORE disputes, MORE deficits, MORE of the same old crap!
NO progress, NO cooperation, NO improvement!
And people around the world wonder why the U.S. has one of the lowest voter turnouts of ANY major industrialized nation!
Northern Redman said, about 1 year ago
@pdchapin
Except that zippy will have set the standard for doing things through “executive orders”. President Romney (get used to saying that) can simply issue an executive order to undo all the job killing regulations imposed by the EPA, Dept. of Energy, etc.