Steve Breen for February 16, 2012

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    hanmari  about 12 years ago

    The Obama administration has no plans for reducing the annual deficit, let alone the national debt. His budget and forecasted budgets all have spending increases over previous levels. His entire presidency is built on the premise that people will keep voting for him if he keeps giving away free stuff to voters. He continues to ignore the looming catastrophe of an American default and hopes average Americans are too self-interested or ignorant to wake up before it’s too late. One term is way too many terms for this spendthrift.

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    Noveltman  about 12 years ago

    The only man who could have saved our nation from economic collapse. Is now getting blamed for things “not being better”. You Republican preschoolers need to go outside and let the grown ups handle this.

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    Noveltman  about 12 years ago

    Hey. I enjoy this site. So do you. So do lots of other adults. You can’t equate political cartoons with childish animated cartoons or simple daily strips of a fat cat who enjoys lasagna.

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    leweclectic  about 12 years ago

    Well that brought me a smile Howgozit as you got that one right…mark one up on your score sheet.

    As to the debt issue being pillared by this Op. Ed. Cartoon:

    It was 911 that changed everything for everyone. As I read it (and we will probably agree to disagree here) the Cheney-Bush administration found themselves between a hard spot and a rock, received poor advice (Especially from Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld) concerning the prosecution of both the Afghan war and the ill-advised Iraq war. Strategic military capabilities were degraded in two ways by the Rumsfeld’s Doctrine: (1) it called for the minimal number of forces to be to be placed on the ground and as an adjunct to this vital military support units (Food Services, Transportation, Military Police and Security, the Army Corp or Engineers, etc.) had been decommissioned and replaced by no-bid contracts to civilian firms; firms that were often run by “friends and supporters” of the administration. The cost savings that this was to bring never materialized. What did materialize were huge cost over-runs and billions in graft by both American and in country contactors? The surplus of the Clinton years was quickly turned into a huge budget deficit that any incoming President would find difficult, at best, to turn around; this would have included another FDR who had during the Great Depression, unlike President Obama today, a Congress that supported and put through nearly all of the programs and measures required to turn the then economy around.

    President Obama, despite his efforts to find consensus, has been denied that consensus by dogmatic, corporate directed, congressional Republicans.

    Today, due to the entrenched dogmatic views of the Republican Representatives and Congressmen—along with their general refusal to reach out and find consensus, this Nation and the President are saddled with a counter-productive, Do Nothing Congress. President Obama should be commended for what he has been able to do for the economy and the America people while having to operate under and within the darkness brought-on by the regressive Congressional Republicans.

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