Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 04, 2011

If you’re an independent and plan to bash both, please hang up now …

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What is the bigger crime: 1) Robbing a bank, 2) Founding a bank, or 3) Saving the banker’s limo’s paint job from the debris of the stupid bus?

They really shouldn’t bother having R or D after their names as they change that letter as often as the polls change. Just simplify it and put a ‘P" for ’POLITICIAN" as that’s all they’re really loyal to anyway.VOTE ANYONE ELSE 2012. Throw the rascals out! ALL OF THEM.Orion

But why can’t she learn to put it back up after she’s done?

@DryGrub WillieConsider the effects, if he forgets vs she forgets

Tune in next time as Congress-man fights his sometimes side kick, sometime arch enemy – “The Sen-a-tor”

“Wiley you genius you’ve done it again!”

99% can’t afford to have a voice. No checks no balances.

I hope Obviousman shows up to avenge those poor folks who got thrown over on the bus!

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Careful, Wiley, you’re getting political again… :D

The problem is, you have to vote someone in to vote someone out, and the second isn’t any better than the first. They’re still just a bunch of politicians.

@Orion-13 Can we just P on them?

Even the most “strident” new-bie in Congress soon learns the ropes…hang everyone else but Congress. Tea Party, my behind!

As I approached this wonderful comic I said,“I will not make a political comment.”WILEY attacked me this week.Then I hear the slogans“GE made $gazillion$$$ and didn’t pay tax”I cannot tell these people to read and see that maybe the IRS owed them tons and maybe they reinvested lowering prices and creating jobs, and maybe over the course of years that they will pay industries average of 35% on profits, dividends tax of 35% and capital gains 20%. I mean if they were making bundles of money, why aren’t their stocks soaring through the roof? Why aren’t they paying higher dividends than anyone? Maybe those slogans are like politicians sound bites.The far right screams that liberal tax and spend programs will bankrupt the nation and raising a generation of crack smoking welfare receipiants. Proof? Oh, but it sounds good.I think every party ought to endore the war cry of every nation ever. “God’s with us.” Let the opposition know, if you don’t agree with us, carry an fiberglass umbrella..

Love it!

This was a simply perfect strip.

The problem with throwing out all of the incumbents is that you get a new crop of things like The Tea Party..“We won’t compromise on anything!”

Which means that nothing gets done. Not even the necessary business of government.

if i pay 200 grand for my ride, my driver had better have a super hero congressMan around to keep him from arriving with scratches on it, or his bond monthly premium is going to go up…

If we can create a simple spectrum of with left and right, progressive and conservative the current political setting across the spectrum has lost sight of the Common Good.

Common Good Definition: “the common good indicates “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfilment more fully and more easily”.[”

This is not simply socialism or capitalisim. This is what makes America great the assumption that anybody can do or be anything. Pragmatically it means policies and programs that provide opportunities for everyone to reach their fullfillment / potential. We have seen this in civil rights acts, in economic and social programs such as the “New Deal” and “Great Society”.

Americans historically have looked at ourselves with pride that we are different than the elitism/classism of Europe of the previous centuries.

Just don’t lift the seat in the first place.

A Tale of Two Cities / A Tale of Two Worlds.

Common Good Definition: the common good indicates “the sum total …of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfilment more fully and more easily”.

The Star Trek reference took the quote a step further than the sacrifice in the classic novel. It aspired towards the Common Good where both the few and the many sacrifice and are served.

Back to the strip it does a great job pointing out where Congress-Man has lost sight of the Common Good surving favored citizens. No preferential treatment of the poor here.

If that had been one of the two Canadian made busses of OBummer he would have saved it….

ALL toilet seats including the top lid need to be in the DOWN position at all times unless in immediate use.

@Orion-13 You’ve been misinformed the P doesn’t stand for Politician@gikaailsik Sadly, like the shooting gallery the ones you knock over are repalced by another just like the first.

Good strip Wiley. Sorry about the numbskull commentaries above.

i have to say it. the bus looks empty – so maybe everyone on board all ready escaped through the emergency exit in the back of the bus and the superhero was going to rescue the limo in the first place? maybe? possibly???

Thank You! Bullseye!

Right or left, politicians are in it for themselves – and anyone that garners their favor (ie, funds a campaign). Voting them out only works in the short term, because the newbies become the incumbants.Both parties are at fault (and the non-parties too) for all the greed and corruption in politics.So … get rid of the party system. It never really worked well anyway. Instead vote for the PERSON, not a PARTY. Might take a bit to tweak it, but it certainly can’t be any worse than what we have. Limit campaign spending. NO corporate donations. Get rid of all the incentives for being in a place of power, other than helping your fellow countrymen.Nah … never work. Greed wins out every time.Sad, that.

Guess you just want to make sure you’re in the limo, not on the bus.

Cut all politicians pay by two thirds, force them to pay into Social Security AND chip in for their own health insurance like most ‘employees’ in the real world do and see how fast they abandon the political band wagon.

@glkailsik“Vote out all the incumbants”?What, and then have a bunch of self-righteous, incompetant, amateurs paralyzing the government? Oh, wait…

Welcome back from vacation, Wiley!

Why do “we” continue to bash the people “we” voted into office? Listen up people; “We are the problem!”.. Pay attention to what “they” say and vote for the one “you” most agree with. Then; if “they” don’t follow through, “vote them” out!

Looks like a school bus. Our future has been sacrificed to satisfy today’s fatcats

I just want to point out, on behalf of school bus drivers everywhere, that kids are 50 times less likely to be in an accident in a school bus than in the family car. That is unless we are attacked by a congressional limo!

I sometimes copy and save. Unable to do so on this one. I only get the top half or so.

Oh My, Wiley,…You have evolved from political sarcasm into political CYNICISM. WHAT is this world coming to!?

If you’re an independent that thinks for themselves, seeks out the real facts on an issue, and sees only jokers during elections when the rest of the country sees aces thus forcing you to abstain because you’d sooner poke your eye out with a stick than elect some moron who uses pontific polemics and dated dogma, press 3.33333333333333333333333333333

He gives no thought to the concept that saving the bus would also prevent its debris from damaging the limo. I’ve been trying to elect something besides D or R since the ‘70s, but y’all ain’t helping. It’s not that I think they’d be better with as much power, but a hope that with more voices none would be so full of themselves.

PEACE,…and Long Life, my friend.

The last line (“Worst … superhero … ever …”) sounds EXACTLY like something we’d hear from Comic Book Guy from “The Simpsons” … lol.

This would be funny if it wasn’t sooo true!

But why can’t she learn to put it back up after she’s done?http://goo.gl/z1pog

Good for Night-gaunt49! When will the American people wake up to what is being done to them? And when will congress be able to wean itself from corporate donations? Maybe never???

Until Americans truly unite, and drop the red/blue BS, this country will continue down the sewer line. Stop watching FOX news for starters. The GOP puppets there only feed the us/them mentality which is exactly what the elite want. It keeps them in control, and the American people fighting with each other, instead of fighting against the very ones keeping them down. Wake up America!

Throw out the bums who threw out the bums who threw out the bums who threw out the bums!

Bravo! Nicely said… and true, too.

Only "kinda’…?

__This is what they’ve been doing. What do we/can we do to end it?.None of us… even them, can afford to let it continue as it has.What options do we have?

@ Redhead 55- nice thought, but the Pres can’t do it, the Supreme Court can’t do it, the States can’t do it, and neither can you and I. The only body that can introduce legislation to change congressional pay and benefits is, by federal law, …CONGRESS! We can vote ‘em out, sure; but if they’ve “served” 5 years or more, they’re eligible for full pension and health benefits. Who can change that? ONLY congress.@JAHOODY- see above.

@ChappellGirl5-You say “common sense prevails”, yet place the burden on the male to raise the seat to keep it dry, and then lower it in anticipation of your own comfort. Doesn’t common sense imply that you should “look before you seat”? He really has no need to raise it in the first place (and if you have kids, you know a lot of boys don’t).

It takes 38 states to convene a Constitutional Convention. The only problem being – who will be in the Convention? That’s right, our current national politicians. I wonder, if the Governors of all the States were to form the Conventional Committee, what might be different? Or would the rich still run things and the liberals have to malleate society by making up the majority of teachers, thereby influencing the younger generations?

glk: And you vote out all the seniority in your area and have almost no voice in committees. I’ll keep Carl Levin, thank you.

Worse yet, you can buy him off for a pittance.

redhead, mi amor…they do pay into social security, and they do pay something fortheir health care. you really do need to read more than just spouting what mierda you’ve heard from the dark side

Fabulous idea!!!!

No harm came to anyone on the bus, they were all protected by the millions of bodies “The One” has thrown under it in his career.

Too many comments today! Irene has me 4 days behind on my strips…

As the bus falls…And the Hero calls…Into action we fly…But what do I spy?…An empty bus of fertilizer…To readjust the wiser…To the fact that what seems…Does not always deem…What is right or wrong…But just like the song…And the Democrats creed…Sometimes you get what you need…

Thank you, Wiley. Well said.

Now if we could get the Supreme Court to do the same…….

totally agree that congressman is the worst superhero ever. especially if he is a republican. or, a dead beat dad tea party republican.

Boo Hiss -

@lin4869Actually, that’s exactly how it works – or should – in our household.

The presumption here is that women sit to pee. Many actually do not, and if the seat or lid is down in the middle of the night, that can be a disaster, so it is left up. But the lid certainly should be down to flush.