Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for October 25, 2008
October 18, 2008
November 01, 2008
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling Your favorite fictional characters from the debates -- Joe Six-Pack & Joe The Plumber Joe: Boy, this election's got me confused, Joe! Joe: URP You said it, Joe! Joe: I mean look at this! You need a Ph.D. to make sense of all these numbers! Joe: And letters! The Liberal Elite If you make less than $250,000, you will pay less in taxes under Obama's plan than under McCain's Joe: All I know is, Obama says he's gonna raise taxes on the rich! Joe, that doesn't seem fair! GLUG GLUG Just my luck, then I'LL get rich, and the government will send some fancypants to take away the solid gold pogo stick I've always dreamed of. I.R.S. Joe: Hey, it's JOE LUNCHBUCKET! What do you think, Joe? Joe: Well, I'm just a REGULAR JOE... Joe: ...but I know that McCain wants to give 85% of his tax cuts to the top 1% of taxpayers! That makes sense for America, Joe! Joe: I mean, I don't want a big tax cut! I want the benefit of a tax cut for the RICH to TRICKLE DOWN to me! Joe: Those socialists aren't gettin' my gold pogo stick, Joe! Joe: Have a cuppa joe, Joe. Paid for by the Committee for Desperate Attempts to Use Joe-Based Archetypes to Put a Common, Folksy Face on Policies That Greatly Favor Only the Extremely Wealthy
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pschearer Premium Member about 16 years ago
Don’t worry, Ruben. You’re safe. Getting rich is nothing you’ll ever have to worry about.
xangatom about 16 years ago
Joe-vial! Himlarious!
Donaldo Premium Member about 16 years ago
The republicans always become the working man’s best friend during elections, and then f*s him over the next four years. It’s a mystery how anybody falls for it. The US is full of fools who think they will become millionaires tomorrow. YOU WON’T, suckers.
britbiker about 16 years ago
Can you say same ol’, same ol? And spell circumvention?
Donaldo Premium Member about 16 years ago
JPuzzleWhiz, our average republican voter: paranoid, hateful, and involuntarily funny. Don’t believe everything you hear on Fox News. Rejoice in the fact that finally an intelligent president is on his way.
Herbabee about 16 years ago
“Same Old Same Old and STFU”
Ahh, continuation of the last two terms’ policies is hopefully not the objective.
tobybartels about 16 years ago
continuation of the last two terms’ policies is hopefully not the objective
But with a few exceptions, it will be the outcome, Obama or McCain.
Incidentally, Joe the Plumber is not entirely fictional. (But he may as well be, how they treat him in debates.)
The_Jerk_Store about 16 years ago
Hey Grokenstein, why don’t you STFU? You’re so good at predicting how the next four years are going to be, how about summing up the last eight, hmmm? Or even funnier, the next four under McCain. I’d LOVE to see that.
runar about 16 years ago
Stein, you obvoiusly don’t grok. It’s not your free speech that’s annoying; it’s your inanity.
jimmyHump about 16 years ago
How can anyone think that it doesn’t matter who the president of the United States is? Being that cynical is simply an excuse to be intellectually and civicly lazy. I’ll gladly and humbly eat crow if Obama is a mistake; that’s one of the things that makes me different from your average republican. But, generally, politicians have to move on agendas they’ve promised (that’s why they are so careful about what they say), and the stark differences in tax plans is one of the major reasons Obama got my vote and should have gotten every Joe’s vote!
cowtung almost 10 years ago
Reading JPuzzleWhiz’s comment 6 years on is hilarious. I hope he was just lampooning that archetype. In the end, the Right got what it wanted: a stymied government incapable of doing much of anything. I wish I could peek into the McCain presidency alternate history. If the Right could have put their name on it, universal health care might have actually been brought out in a real way. Probably not, though. Having Obama as president probably just saved us from a few right wing shenanigans (but not all of them).