And Then There Was Willard Mitt Romney

OMG!!! David's a muslim?!!

Seriously though, you hit the nail on the head, as always. The accusations of Obama being a muslim is the issue, not him declaring his faith or hosting easter celebations at the white house.

 

In all seriousness, I've noticed republicans seem to enjoy MAD magazine. I bought a few back in the late 70s/early 80s... but then I turned 12.

(to andy)...just teasin' andy

 

Back up there for a moment! MAD mags are great
But then again you might have a point as I am a Conservative LOL

 

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Ah so you think you know my political leaning better than I do then? Why is that?

Well sorry I am a Conservative but one who is able to think for himself. I think you will find that British conservatives are not quite as strident as the American version which most of the political world would class as neoliberalism
Now if you are unsure of the term here is a brief outline

Governments should not run large deficits that have to be paid back by future citizens. Deficits should only be used for occasional stabilization purposes.

Broadening the tax base and adopting moderate marginal tax rates to encourage innovation and efficiency

Promoting market provision of goods and services which the government cannot provide as effectively or efficiently, such as telecommunications, where having many service providers promotes choice and competition.

Abolition of regulations that impede market entry or restrict competition, except for those justified on safety, environmental and consumer protection grounds, and prudent oversight of financial institutions
Sound familiar to you?

 

Nope the only explosions in my room occur in the bed and not under it. However, I did see this on the drive home.

 

Yes Andy, flatulence can be a problem.

 

Both the physiological kind and the mental kind. It's especially tragic when someone suffers from both afflictions at once.

 

I curse you infidel for your mocking words.
. Now you need to be spanked. Bye.

 

Is that nun from the Castle Anthrax?

They love spankings!

 

Is there something wrong with finding a computer generated image of a nun as being sexy?

 

Googled Castle Anrthax on youtube. Funny stuff. How could I forget.

 

Dude the obana pictures are jokes. Why is it that Republicans can be drawn as anything and everything and it is viewed as funny, political statements, statire, a protest, etc. but if someone dares do it to a democrat, free speech goes out the window. I am sure the same people who look down at the obama postings would find the picture below as funny which should make them stop and think about it all.

 

Now, now... it can be both ...and more...but sometimes, to get a point across, you have to pick one and leave out the others. Otherwise the point gets all watered-down and muddied-up and all that.

On a side note: I watched Pailin' on FOX earlier, hosting some kind of oil party with all the bigs from the oil companies. She looks a bit haggard in your drawing above.

 

Well, it's better than having Willard Scott running for President.

Now no one can say, over the next 5 years, that I always talk bad about President Romney...

 

I heard someone say that at least Rick Santorum's chances of winning the nomination hadn't changed after he dropped out this week. The chance was still ZERO.

 

I happen to find the evolution cartoon clever and funny myself even if I do not like Obama. Political cartoons go back to the American Revolution and hopefully they will never be censored so our democracy can stay as such with freedom of speech.

As for my Obama as a muslilm pictures, anyone who does not think Islam did not help form how Obama views the world after having two fathers who were muslim as well as growing up in a muslim nation as well as going to a muslim school for a while as well as traveling to muslim nations in his young adulthood is seriously burying their head in the sand and the issue with Islam is not that it is a different religion the issue is that it is a religion of war. Just read any mainstream Shia or Sunni Koran. As for the splinter islamic sects, I happened to have served with some and they were great.

 

It will be hard for this to happen with Obama and his wife getting billions of dollars of free brainwashing media coverage 24/7.

 

And this supposed "free media coverage" is a drop in the bucket compared to the unlimited corporate money pouring into Republican PACs thanks to Republicans bringing us Citizens United. Besides, the Cons have GOP TV.... I mean Faux News... I mean Fox so called News.... I mean Fox News. But I guess that doesn't count for some reason. As long as the Right keeps brainwashing their ilk into believing that the entire rest of the media is in the pocket of the Left, they seem to be able to ignore the ratings of cable news shows and the incredible advantage the Right has in radio station listeners. I guess playing the victims has always worked well for the Right even while they dominate the conversation with total BS.

I'll give the Right credit for their messaging anyway. They are masters at manipulating less than bright people. However, if you have even an ounce of intelligence, their messages just come off as pure bull hockey. It's like the Right's new push back on the Left's observation that the Right has passed countless laws all across the country against women's rights, their economic situations, and the general status of women in this country. You can literally point to policy after policy where Republicans have directly curtailed women's rights to access contraception, access to abortion procedures, access to equal pay, access to planned parenthood, subjected them to unnecessary and invasive medical procedures, and simply countless infringements on the lives of women and yet they now say Obama has a war on women. If it wasn't so sad and harmful it would be laughable. But their messaging is good enough to fool stupid people. Good for their ability to lie to the least educated people in society.

 

This article outlines fairly well just how weak Romney's argument really is. But I'm sure his argument polled well among dumb people and that is what really matters right?


Public-Sector Job Cuts: It’s a Red-State Thing
03/30/2012
Barbara Doherty
Just over a year ago, the 2010 midterm elections saw Republicans seize control of both branches of the legislatures in 11 states. Then, while talking up the notion of job creation, they set about cutting their state and local public workforces with a ferocity unseen in decades. The most recent numbers, according to the Roosevelt Institute, are stark.
The 11 states are Alabama, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Together, they eliminated 87,900 state and local public jobs—more than 40 percent of the total cut.
All by itself, Texas—which already was GOP-dominated before 2010—cut 67,900 public-sector jobs, or 31.3 percent.
To put it in perspective, the 11 states have 23 percent of U.S. state and local employees. Texas has 8.5 percent. The job cuts were much higher than their share of the public workforce.
At the same time, many of these newly GOP-dominated states cut corporate taxes, or cut taxes on high-income earners, or—in the case of Wisconsin—both.
Starting with the overall economy, the casualty list resulting from all these cuts is huge. Economist Paul Krugman has estimated that if the government workforce had grown at a Reagan-era rate instead of decreasing rapidly, unemployment now would be closer to 7 percent instead of stagnating at 8.5 percent during recent months.
But women and people of color are hit especially hard by public-sector cuts. As we’ve reported before, public-sector jobs have made it possible for women and people of color to win the financial security that often eludes them in the private sector.
While women represented 57 percent of the public-sector workforce at the end of the recession, women lost 79 percent of the 327,000 jobs cut in this sector between July 2009 and February 2011.
During 2008-2010, more than 21 percent of all black workers were public employees, compared with 16.3 percent of non-black workers. For both men and women, the median wage earned by black employees is significantly higher in the public sector.
What else has been on the agenda in those 11 super-red states?
Not surprisingly, it is there that the GOP has pushed through an avalanche of measures restricting both democratic voting rights and reproductive rights.