Tom Toles for July 02, 2017

Remember when the R’s were going on about “death panels”? Well, they have solved that problem. There are NO PANELS IN THEIR PLAN. Now you just move directly to the grave. Do NOT pass GO. And definitely DO NOT COLLECT $200.

There were never any “death panels” too dramatic. The CFO tells the CEO the costs from Accounting and they decide what to cover and what not to. No drama there.

COMPROMISE REQUIRES CENTRISTS – {a rhyme}

For Repugs to engage in compromise,

they’d have to empower some centrists.

But their party is stacked quite Otherwise, -

- with Far-Right and Big-Money interests

who stand too dadgum’ contrariwise

to the Democrats’ {representatives} representrists.

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Well, old Turtleman Mitch certainly makes me sick.

RIGHTWING INUNDATION – {rhyme & coda}

Things get worse then worse and then worse

as verse-by-verse our Rightists rehearse

their clamor of notions which run adverse

to policies which’d serve what’s good for our nation.

We’re deep in the swamp of a bleak situation

of drowning from Rightwing inundation.

… Coda:

America’s obit:

“Their Right wasn’t fit.”

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The ACTUAL Republican “Compromise” is “More POOR PEOPLE dead!”

IT COULDN’T BE WORSE – {a rhyme}

Rightists do this and do that, but wouldn’t

you know that mostly it’s stuff which they shouldn’t

be trying to do.

{They’re lying too.}

Could governance be worse than the Right’s? It couldn’t.

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Republican War on Poverty—-kill off the poor

Trump (who never read the bill from the House) eventually called it “mean, mean, mean.” (He doesn’t know many words, please forgive him for the repetition.) We now wait to hear his wisdom on the Senate version……………

I wonder…. are people who hate government the best people to lead it?

Compromise by going single payer.

Douglas Adams was right; “The People who desire power the most are, ipso facto, the LEAST qualified to get it. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should anyone who is actually capable of being elected President be allowed to serve!”

How about “More Republican Elephants dead.”

No so-called ‘conservatives’ posting here how health care is not a right, and how the ‘free’ market will ensure that the Right People will get health care?

“The People who desire power the most are, ipso facto, the LEAST qualified to get it. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should anyone who is actually capable of being elected President be allowed to serve!” — Douglas Adams

Here’s the fallacy of that statement : Because a person desires power does not me they are capable of being elected President.

That a person is capable indicates to me that they are resourceful and competent, at least to that extent and should not, automatically, be disqualified. Our current leader, having passed that particular resourcefulness test, is unqualified for a multitude and variety of other alarming reasons.

That he understood, however, the ignorance and anger of so many voters and was able to bamboozle them, I hope, is a very rare confluence of circumstances and, now that his method has been demonstrated, we should develop an effective plan to expose the next opportunist’s lies and impossible promises that even ignorant voters understand.

Don’t, under any circumstances, however, underestimate a crafty politician’s ability to lie and take advantage of low-information voters. Trump succeeded. It will be tried again. This should be an instructive experience for us all.

What is it with republicans running failed businessmen for president. First Bush 2 and now Trump?

WHY?

The U.S. has the capability to be the best for all.

There is no way a republican would compromise from dead to sick. That would cost the rich money that Republicans are unwilling to give to the poor.

No new comic? It’s been a week now!