That’s not quite accurate. The area with the highest unemployment and foreclosure rates in the country just re-elected the Senate Majority Leader. If anything, we’re in for two years of stalemate. The Democrats won’t get anything past the House of Representatives, and the Republicans won’t get anything past the Senate, and have less than the three-fifths majority to override a veto in either chamber.
Poor americans. Again they have been brainwashed to believe that it’s good for them if a few corporations and a handful of shareholders are filthy rich while the rest struggle near the poverty line. Obama is just too good for them. They need their leaders to be folksy, angry morons, sponsored by unethical, non-caring corporations.
Poor Americans. Again they have been brainwashed to believe that it’s good for them if the government takes over more and more of the economy in imitation of systems that have consistently failed around the world.
As for the rich, the Lefties are just frustrated they can only demonize them and are not allowed to round them up and kill them en masse like the Russians and Chinese did.
Two big questions now: First, will the Tea Party be able to swing the professional Repubs back to being a party of limited government? Second, will Obama’s hardcore statist beliefs keep him from a Clintonesque move toward the middle? TBD.
Why is government a bad thing? Who else looks after your interests? The corporations want to sell you food without having to tell you that it contains genetically modified meat and tennis shoes made by Chinese child labor. Who will modify them if not government? Who will demand that cars be epuipped with co2 filters if not government? Who will educate children from poor backgrounds? What a wonderful world, if we could just get rid of government. Back to a gunslinging outlaw state. Ye-haaa.
In every other country than the US it’s the most natural thing that you go the hospital if you’re sick, and you don’t pay. Why can’t Americans figure that out, instead of screaming in terror of socialism while abandoning the sick and needy.
The Scandinavian countries got it right. Norway fx is currently the second richest country in the world. Free market economy regulated by government. Works like a charm.
A regulated free market economy is a contradiction in terms. What we have had for nearly a century is a mixed, not free, economy.
A proper function of government is to put criminals in jail, so if a business man steals or defrauds, that’s what district attorneys are for.
But that is totally different from a regulatory regime in which businessmen must prove to a bureaucrat that they are not guilty of crime, in which you do business the way the government orders or else.
But Lefties don’t understand freedom, let alone free markets.
As for Donaldo, I sincerely recommend you emigrate to one of your favorite countries for a few years. See how your dreams work in reality.
I have lived in both Europe and the US and I can guarantee you that the healthcare you consider such a socialist/marxist takeover threat is the most natural thing to be enjoyed by everybody in Europe
Doesn’t anyone from the left think it might have been smarter to put people back to work before coming up with a law to guarantee health care insurance if they ever get back to work? I seem to recall a campaign slogan from the not too distant past that went something like “It’s the economy, stupid.”
An Ohio man was excused from jury service after mentioning he was a childhood friend of cannabalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
John Backderf was among prospective jurors being screened last week by a judge in Cleveland.
When asked if he’d known anyone convicted of a crime, Backderf responded, “I had a close friend in high school who killed 17 people.”
The Plain Dealer reports Monday the answer caused the judge to freeze and lawyers to drop their pens. Backderf explained he knew Dahmer, who was raised in northeast Ohio.
Backderf is a graphic novelist about to publish “My Friend Dahmer.” He was dismissed from the jury list.
backderf is a typical liberal. take the positive attributes of conservatism and assign the to socialism, and take the negative attributes of socialism and assign them to conservatism. Hell, a socialist tried to tell me that Hitler was not a socialist. What is the national socialist party?
Edcole1961 about 14 years ago
That’s not quite accurate. The area with the highest unemployment and foreclosure rates in the country just re-elected the Senate Majority Leader. If anything, we’re in for two years of stalemate. The Democrats won’t get anything past the House of Representatives, and the Republicans won’t get anything past the Senate, and have less than the three-fifths majority to override a veto in either chamber.
Kingoswald Premium Member about 14 years ago
The US political system will now be able to get back to doing what it does best.
Nothing.
Plods with ...™ about 14 years ago
And getting paid reasonably well to do it.
Donaldo Premium Member about 14 years ago
Poor americans. Again they have been brainwashed to believe that it’s good for them if a few corporations and a handful of shareholders are filthy rich while the rest struggle near the poverty line. Obama is just too good for them. They need their leaders to be folksy, angry morons, sponsored by unethical, non-caring corporations.
pschearer Premium Member about 14 years ago
Poor Americans. Again they have been brainwashed to believe that it’s good for them if the government takes over more and more of the economy in imitation of systems that have consistently failed around the world.
As for the rich, the Lefties are just frustrated they can only demonize them and are not allowed to round them up and kill them en masse like the Russians and Chinese did.
Two big questions now: First, will the Tea Party be able to swing the professional Repubs back to being a party of limited government? Second, will Obama’s hardcore statist beliefs keep him from a Clintonesque move toward the middle? TBD.
Donaldo Premium Member about 14 years ago
The proof is in the pudding. US is going to hell.
Why is government a bad thing? Who else looks after your interests? The corporations want to sell you food without having to tell you that it contains genetically modified meat and tennis shoes made by Chinese child labor. Who will modify them if not government? Who will demand that cars be epuipped with co2 filters if not government? Who will educate children from poor backgrounds? What a wonderful world, if we could just get rid of government. Back to a gunslinging outlaw state. Ye-haaa.
In every other country than the US it’s the most natural thing that you go the hospital if you’re sick, and you don’t pay. Why can’t Americans figure that out, instead of screaming in terror of socialism while abandoning the sick and needy.
The Scandinavian countries got it right. Norway fx is currently the second richest country in the world. Free market economy regulated by government. Works like a charm.
pschearer Premium Member about 14 years ago
A regulated free market economy is a contradiction in terms. What we have had for nearly a century is a mixed, not free, economy.
A proper function of government is to put criminals in jail, so if a business man steals or defrauds, that’s what district attorneys are for.
But that is totally different from a regulatory regime in which businessmen must prove to a bureaucrat that they are not guilty of crime, in which you do business the way the government orders or else.
But Lefties don’t understand freedom, let alone free markets.
As for Donaldo, I sincerely recommend you emigrate to one of your favorite countries for a few years. See how your dreams work in reality.
Donaldo Premium Member about 14 years ago
I have lived in both Europe and the US and I can guarantee you that the healthcare you consider such a socialist/marxist takeover threat is the most natural thing to be enjoyed by everybody in Europe
Ashrey about 14 years ago
Dear GoComics, Please get a block feature!
MisngNOLA about 14 years ago
Doesn’t anyone from the left think it might have been smarter to put people back to work before coming up with a law to guarantee health care insurance if they ever get back to work? I seem to recall a campaign slogan from the not too distant past that went something like “It’s the economy, stupid.”
farren about 14 years ago
From the San Mateo County DAILY JOURNAL:
An Ohio man was excused from jury service after mentioning he was a childhood friend of cannabalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
John Backderf was among prospective jurors being screened last week by a judge in Cleveland.
When asked if he’d known anyone convicted of a crime, Backderf responded, “I had a close friend in high school who killed 17 people.”
The Plain Dealer reports Monday the answer caused the judge to freeze and lawyers to drop their pens. Backderf explained he knew Dahmer, who was raised in northeast Ohio.
Backderf is a graphic novelist about to publish “My Friend Dahmer.” He was dismissed from the jury list.
ponytail56 about 14 years ago
backderf is a typical liberal. take the positive attributes of conservatism and assign the to socialism, and take the negative attributes of socialism and assign them to conservatism. Hell, a socialist tried to tell me that Hitler was not a socialist. What is the national socialist party?
Charles Brobst Premium Member about 14 years ago
Are we free to wring their rich necks?
MisngNOLA about 14 years ago
Yes, C.A.Brobst. Please start with George Soros.