Tom Toles for October 17, 2012

The late train, just what the doctor ordered

That train was promised to be here years ago and it ain’t coming if it stays on the same old track it’s been on. Hope for Change.

Late and out of diesel. At least President Romney won’t stand around and blame President Oopsbama for 3.5 years before getting some fuel for the train.

400+ filibusters have slowed it considerably. Still, it chugs.-Six(!) studies say it’s chugging.

Does that include all the filibusters brought on by Speaker Pelosi? You libs kill me….you had it all for 2 years…AND DIDN’T GET YOUR AGENDA PASSED BY YOUR OWN PARTY…time to move over and let us get to work. If you want socialism, move to Greece.

I wonder do they count the poll workers as new jobs and take them off the unemployment list.

Here it comes! (Will Hillary fit under there?)Next stop: Benghazi

Dems did NOT have 2 years! It took almost 8 months for Al Franken to be recognized as winner in Minnesota. Two months later Ted Kennedy passed away, then Massachusetts elected Scott Brown. Besides, the Republicans filibustered everything put forth, and it takes a SUPERmajority by current Senate rules to break a filibuster. Based on his flip-flops and etch-a-sketch moments, Romney will throw the country under the train so he can ride first class!

Here’s a little challenge Ima. Try constructing a real argument for this thread. It’ll probably take you some time and at least a few paragraphs. If you take the time to seriously engage us, I promise to read it and give you a reasonable reply.

Do you even care about what you post? Do you even read it? Why in the hell would Obama, or any president, want high gas prices and fewer (not less) jobs for Americans?

I don’t know where you pull your posts out of, but I hope you wash your hands afterward.

Unfortunately, the Ima’s of the world can’t get past Rush or Fox to get any contrasting facts on which to base an opinion. In Ohio, we ALWAYS hear from the trolls about the President blocking traffic for his appearances, but NEVER hear about "insert Republican name here) staying in DC to do the public’s business.

It’s also important to remember that President Obama, even when he had the slim majority, was interested in trying to establish some bipartisanship in congress. That was his real mistake, because McConnell and Boehner were determined to fight ANYTHING proposed by this administration. There was no way he would move forward with any help from the other side. They were firmly and stubbornly involved in what I consider treasonous activity, working against the “pursuit of happiness” of the nation in an attempt to bring down the President. The Republican Party used to be an honorable group, but they have been subsumed by their corporate masters and their only real interest now is in money and power. This cartoon excellently portrays Romney’s involvement in this treason. Let’s give Obama four more years to continue turning this thing around, and throw some of those Tea Party whackos out in the process.

Sr NONliberal, I hate to break it to you, but Pelosi was Speaker of the House where the majority rules, and there are no filibusters. That’s a Senate tactic. You really really, really don’t know what you are talking about, do you? But don’t let that stop you!

I’m still waiting for you to go toe-to-toe with me on content. That’s the best you can do?

“Oh stop, Linder”

Can’t handle the truth, can you?

Mitt has the entire GOP congress doing it’s level best to derail that train. Citizens be damned.

“Did not hear/read any to “handle” in his early post.”-You no longer seem to write enough to make any sense.

Chill Ima. Some of us work for a living rather than troll the comics’ threads.WRT what you wrote, it’s not much of an argument, but I’ll do the best I can with what you gave me to work with. O’s recession mimics Carter’s recession. Reagan brought America out of it.In what ways does the recession Obama inherited resemble Carter’s. I looked up the history of recessions in the U.S. and the only recession during the Carter presidency was very shallow and short-lived followed by a deeper recession that occurred during Regan’s first term (http://goo.gl/TlE9C). In that case the recession was caused in part by a monetary policy designed to reign in inflation, which was in double digits at the time. There was no banking crisis and no danger that the global economy might collapse due to markets being frozen.By comparison, the recession that Obama inherited was nearly a depression and financial markets were frozen. No economist that I’m aware of has even attempted to equate the crash in the financial markets with what happened to Carter.So, until you make a convincing case for the equivalence between Carter’s conditions and the ones that followed with President Reagan to what President Obama has had to deal with, there’s not much here worth discussing.

OY! OY! OY! Howgozit forgets that corporations were trying to hire part-timers/two-tier wage scale during Bush II, Clinton, Reagan, etc. Business is ONLY concerned with profit, all else be damned! As soon as Obama tried to fix things, and said he inherited a bad situation, the Ailes machine started on Bush “inheriting” the “Clinton Recession”! As for Las Vegas: " You’re doing a good job Brownie!," with Bush in Ca. getting a guitar, then flying over New Orleans for a photo-op on the way back to DC!