Mike Luckovich for April 12, 2013

Get the list of people who signed the petition to secede from the US, gather them up and put them on a one way cruise to Somalia.

There should be a cliff behind that elephant. A literal and figurative cliff.

If you believe this baloney I really do have a bridge for sale.

Maybe Obama should do what Bush did and start two unfunded wars using emergency measures. Only this time against the nation’s infrastructure. Be cheaper with less loss of life.

How can anyone be so obtuse? Favoritism for the sake of favoritism is simply stupid.

Well. at least this time you are only insulting the cartoonist, and not your fellow posters. Some progress at least, especially as I am certain that Luckovich cares less about your comments anyway!

You must be kidding !! Europe already tried that.

If Democrats are Socialists, then Republicans must be Fascists !!

While the president doesn’t “pass” a budget, Harleyquinn is also partially correct with respect to the concept that President Obama was late with his budget proposal. In 1921 the Budget and Accounting Act became law and laid the foundation for the modern budget process, which includes the president’s budget. More recently, the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 established a timetable for the annual budget process, which is kicked off each year by the presidential budget submission. The Budget Act specifies that the president’s budget should be presented to Congress on or before the first Monday in February, which generally coincides with the timing of the president’s annual State of the Union Address.In that sense, President Obama failed to present his budget on time.

The President issues a budget PROPOSAL, the HOUSE (Boehner’s job he’s ignored) creates an actual budget and forwards it to the Senate. From that point, the two houses of Congress negotiate (well not with Republicans around) a resolution that becomes the actual budget. HUNDREDS of “filibusters” from the Republicans in the Senate do NOT make it Harry Reid’s fault. (Though I don’t care for either Reid or Pelosi when it comes to “leadership”, at least they haven’t been like Boehner and McConnell, holding out for what is NOT AT ALL in the nation’s “best interests”, rather only “corporate citizens” profits are on THEIR agendas.)

I like it!

I suspect he’s missed many classes on many days.

Ah, the right. Determined to destroy America no matter what.

I’m really sorry you are putting yourself through that.

Move to Sweden? I’m rooting for the Republicans!!!!

President Obama has ended the Iraq war and is winding down the one in Afghanistan. Also he has so decimated the leadership of Al Qaeda that the drone war is winding down as well. I’m amazed how clueless you are about current events. Are you only good at going on online forums and insulting people?

You idiot. You don’t even know what “pass a budget” means or you’d realize that the President can’t pass a budget.

The republican party is largely a collection of cretins who bear most of the responsibility for the economic disaster that befell the country. The cartoon merely displays their relentless attempt to insure that things don’t improve under Obama’s leadership. The fact that they didn’t win the election and lost seats in the Senate appears to have no bearing on the relentlessness of their need to blame Obama for what they caused.

Harley, you’re apparently unaware that the President doesn’t pass budgets, Congress does. And surely you are aware that since the 2010 elections the repugnanticans, who control the House, have blocked anything, anything at all, that the President tries to get done?

You are aware of these facts, right?

gmgodsil, you’re comparing him to shrub, right, the man who cut taxes on the richest, saying that would improve the lot of the poor and middle class even though your hero Reagan tried it? The difference is, when Reagan saw it wouldn’t work, he, your hero, RAISED taxes three times.

Then there’s the little matter of starting two wars without any thought of paying for them. “Deficits don’t matter” – Dick Cheney

The cost of those two wars to date is $4 trillion, 25% of our national debt.

And, of course, the savings and loan crisis built and exploded during shrubs administration, not Obama’s.

I bet you didn’t even know all the bailout money has been repaid, with interest? 7% interest, on average, a nice return on investment in this day and age.

Ah yes, you are probably at least somewhat correct. But what I am really trying to do is to attempt to bring a degree of civility to these comment boards (a task that at least some would consider totally impossible at the very least). Please do not take that so personally, if I could do it with all of the less than civil comments here by both extreme sides of the political spectrum, then I would do that. But that would not take just a mere man, but a God, and that I am definitely not!

I am not being conceited when I tell you in all loving kindness that perhaps you could consider yourself at least somewhat honored that I am even trying with you, as some here I could not even do that with!!

At any rate, do have a great day!

So all of that heroin is good for Americans (especially our children)? IF he truly were at war with such. then I would think that Law and Order conservatives would be the first to applaud him!!

Exactly NONE, thanks.