Pat Oliphant for February 26, 2010

Whoa, Oliphant turning on Obama?

Earth to Obama: You are supposed to be the leader of our nation and the leader of your party. Stop the wishy-washy attempts at bipartisanship and LEAD!!! The Republicans may have flushed our country down the toilet, but at least they can show some leadership.

For the first time, this morning I heard him say that he’s just about ready to go it alone without the elephants. Only about a year late.

Why still blame the Repubs for all the country’s ills, when the Dems have been in control for the last three years? Everyone seems to forget that small point. I see plenty of fault on both sides of the isle.

Oliphant has some bitterness going on.

billdog… The Dems have been in charge of Congress since 2006. That’s almost FOUR years… not one!

BCS Politics is the art of the possible. Look at Va, NJ, and now Ma and you can see what liberals want is no longer possible. You don’t have the votes.

That’s right, Ollie. bleeep on the Prez in the face of the Republican party’s near-treasonous lock-step obstructionism. Go get ‘em, boy. Uda man.

^ when asked about the individual elements of healthcarre reform contained in the two bills, Americans overwhelmingly support them. The GOP has done an effective job of mischaracterizing the reform plan — frequently resorting to outright lies — and it has had an effect on people’s opinions. Yesterday, the GOP had an opportunity to present the details of how they would achieve reform, at least to present some rough information on the mechanisms to achieve reform and relief for millions of Americans. They failed.

I’m quite sure they will continue their demagoguery and I can’t guess at this point what the end result will be. But I know those who have a modicum of understanding of the problems we face can plainly see the GOP has little to offer. Whether they can think through the fact that the CBO says the most money saved by their version of tort reform could save only $5 billion a year when we must save 100 times that amount is an unknown. Yet tort reform (as they define it) is the GOP’s #1 demand. It’s proof positive the GOP is not interested in real reform that helps Americans caught in the sickness of our delivery system for healthcare.

Last poll I saw said only 25% support the Obama plan.

Strongly urge you read the Paul Ryan Republican plan. Very level headed and one I could easily support. You don’t like it, I guess, so you say the Republicans failed. I think they succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest dreams. His plan is so good the NYT actually gave him a forum last Sunday.

I don’t understand liberals reading a Republican proposal, rejecting it and then saying see the Republicans have no plan.

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens have no idea that Congress members can retire with the same pay for the remainder of their lives after only one term, that they do not pay into Social Security, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform that is being considered…in all of its forms.

We should not have an elite class that is above the very law which is applied to ordinary citizens. It really doesn’t matter if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop. This is a good way to do that. It is an idea whose time has come.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:

“Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States”.

Each person contact a minimum of twenty people on their Address list, in turn ask each of those to do likewise; then in three days, all people in The United States of America will have the Message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around

libertarian, you tend to ignore the point of the post when you respond. I said polls show people overwhelmingly approve the elements of the two bills when presented separately. The GOP has effectively tarnished the public’s opinion of the “Obama” plan.

I haven’t read the details of the Ryan plan, haven’t found them beyond a simple list of talking point objectives. You have a link that provides details of the mechanisms to achieve those objectives?

If the Ryan plan includes dismantling Medicare in the future and giving everyone now younger than 55 a “voucher” for healthcare in the future, no, I do not support it.

Maybe it’s the “fighting” is the problem. Stop fighting and get to work.

Isn’t this a rerun? I seem to remember this ‘toon from a few months ago.

At first I figured it was a sequel/follow-up to the one a while back…not sure about the citizen’s lament yet I’m certain O’s response is the same as the first toon.

BCS We in this country have several complex unbelievably expensive programs. Social security, medicare and medicaid. Both parties pretend the problems don’t exist because they are career killers. So we put them off and say let the next congress take care of them. Now they are not 20 years away, nor 10 years away but this decade.

You may reject Ryan’s program but the Democrats must come up with one of their own. I guarantee it will make people unhappy and will cost votes but it has to be done.

Standard Dem answer- raise taxes on the rich and all our problems will be solved. That was the California solution and now that there are fewer rich, California is broke.

If you don’t want Ryan what do you want? Be practical.

Beat me to the punch radish. I know I’ve seen this toon before.

Obama: You are supposed to be the leader of our nation and the leader of your party. Stop the wishy-washy attempts at bipartisanship and LEAD!!! The Republicans may have flushed our country down the toilet, but at least they can show some leadership. GO TO WORK !!!

Yes, hintzy it is a rerun. The Democrat malignancy is sucking the life from this country. No help, no new ideas,just bitter obstruction.

So many common folk voter, so little time…

Obama’s health care plan became malignant and grew to 2700 pages because the lobbyists were included.

President Obama said that it would take time, as long as four years, to undo what the Bush administration has done in 8. WASN’T ANYONE LISTENING??? He had the optimistic view that the Republicans would work with him to solve our very serious problems. The Republicans want him to fail, so that they can resume their corrupt, money grabbing, corporation, military/industrial power policies.

Obama wants to spend a lot of money, far less than the cost of futile, foreign wars, that scare mongering has made us feel are necessary. He wants to spend money to make life better for AMERICAN people who are snuggling financially for the basics of life. His critics say that he will put us in more debt. Isn’t the debt the fault of the wars???

Libs think money grows on trees; but, that’s only after you cut them down…

Republicans ought hold their tongues when it comes to idolatry. It seems like those who weren’t slobbering all over Bush were waxing nostalgic for Reagan.

Why is it SmellChecker can’t smell his own BS? The Republicans spent borrowed money like there was no tomorrow. The Republican Congress and Republican President spent so much, they had to alter the law and raise the legal limit on the national debt.

“I don’t even believe in the inviolability of the American Constitution.”

Of course you don’t. You followed blindly for the past eight years.

^ puppy, you seem to be especially angry lately. Hope things are OK with you. If not so OK, hope they get better soon. Hope your impish sense of good-natured humor returns too.