Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 31, 2012

This guy is just a jerk!

Grrrrrrrrrr! Snap! Drool! [Strains against choke collar.] Lemme at ’em!

Proper response would have been to scream.

Brad: typical middle management.

Don’t hold your breath, Dylan. If Fauxahontas, robber baron mortgage rollovers, and practicing law without a license is not going to pry him loose from Warren, what makes you thing Benghazi and dead Americans is going to pry him off Obama?

Slap him first chance you get.

Reminds me of Margaret Hamilton during the filming of “The Wizard of Oz.” After she was severely burned in a fire sequence, the MGM heads were calling her in the hospital demanding that she get back to work. The doctor threatened to call the police if they called again. She was out for six weeks and had to wear special protective gloves during the rest of the filming.

Get some sleep.

Sleep? what is this “sleep” you speak of? I wish :-(

Wonder when Romney is going to answer many questions and then stick with the same answer in regard to anything…

If you’ve ever been close to a Senate campaign, you know that this strip is closer to documentary than satire. Sleep, food and personal hygiene are pretty much off the table as election day draws near.

Okay – somebody just go beat the snot outta this idiot.

People like that are the main reason I quit hanging out at Party HQ. Canvassing is all you can do anymore. People are sick unto death of their hijacked televisions and jammed mailboxes.

Somebody needs to break Brad’s hip to give him an idea what it’s like.

Just remember, folks, this is a portrait of the political class that runs this country. This is how they treat each other. Why do we think they feel any differently about us?

At first, I wondered if Brad was a plant from the Brown or Rmoney campaigns; then I realized what kind of stress he must be under.This is not like looking for a job. You get one shot at appealing to a myriad of critical potential employers, and if you fail, you can’t just apply somewhere else. You may get to apply again in six years, but you will be damaged goods and old news, and when the stakes are as high as control of the Senate, you can’t let down for a minute.

Wait’ll Joanie’s health-insurance corporation denies to pay its share of her surgery! Trudeau’s got more cards to play than just this one insensitive person Brad.

Joanie’s death panel is the Republican private one.

“… your crippled butt ….”

This is a good example of the attitude and character of the Republican who sits one of the many private death panels within private “sickcare” insurance corporations.

This isn’t too far from the truth. We had a local volunteer who was on oxygen still manning phone banks up to a week before she passed away.

Personally, I just put my foot down. There are too many things I enjoy in life far more than politics, and they take priority. I’ll help out with a fundraising dinner, but I’m not going on those damned phones!

Ps. And, before you depart, our death panel wishes to thank you for the huge premiums you have so faithfully paid over the years.

Are the Liberals that desperate to get volunteers into their offices for calls?

Things will begin to get better for Joanie. The reason my motherinlaw had 3 joint replacements in one year was that she was in constant pain. Each time there was a lot of physical therapy to be endured after the joint replacement. She chose this course because she didn’t want to have to be bedridden and wither away. It was not an easy course but she believed it to be the only course. The docs consider it elective, but really when you get to the point that you can’t sleep at night due to pain and you can’t do your normal activities, you may as a patient view it as an absolute must. It is only elective if you compare it with having heart surgery, which may be much more urgent. The adrenalin driven heart docs have to deal with urgent medical situations as opposed to something that might be able to wait a bit longer.

I think the Democrats are in a much better position than the Republicans at this point, especially in looking at key battleground states. Also, in this particular strip, the Warren campaign seems to be doing OK, not that they can relax, but they can do without one ailing hip replacement patient/campaign worker for a little while so that she can recover…

BTW, I only mentioned heart issues as an example, I didn’t really mean to imply that heart problems are the only urgent medical problem that one could have…

Yes, it’s that important to prevent corporate lackeys from controlling this country any more than they already do!

Trump the Chump is shouting and waving his hands, desperately hoping for attention, but no one cares. Maybe GT should help the poor man out. On the other hand, maybe not.

I put forth a hypothesis yesterday about Brad’s perhaps being facetious in order to cheer Joanie up. Appears I was wrong . . .

You can recover later.

The Brads of this world reside in both political caves. I have, in my many years of observing the political animal, come to realize that these types care not a wit for the candidate. Winning is the all important thing, the candidate be damned !

“Scream that we want more jobs!!!!”

So that Rmoney can outsource them to China and India like Bush did for eight years?

To Boner? What’s he done about jobs? All the goopers have cared about is ending abortion.

CEO: VOTE OBAMA, LOSE JOB

CEO David Siegel of Westgate Resorts, a major peddler of time-share schemes, warned his 7,000-strong workforce against voting for Obama. To do so, he wrote in a letter to each of them, would “threaten your job.” Obama, Siegel declared, planned to raise taxes on multimillionaires like him, which would give him “no choice but to reduce the size of this company.”

http://us.mc452.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.rand=34dbpc8ic48bs#pg=showMessage&sMid=1&&filterBy=&.rand=516966654&midIndex=1&mid=2_0_0_1_655891_AJ7FtEQAAKcdUJFSgQXMgCjzaMM&fromId=info@nationofchange.org&m=2_0_0_1_658326_AIzFtEQAAKbrUJGECAzxiz7VUyU,2_0_0_1_655891_AJ7FtEQAAKcdUJFSgQXMgCjzaMM,2_0_0_1_654666_ALnFtEQAAVsmUJFGuwAgHUrdR8g,2_0_0_1_646882_ALnFtEQAAUPGUJAqSwUQ9WnjjoA,2_0_0_1_645762_ADvFtEQAACULUJAd7AkdV2zIteE,2_0_0_1_644754_ADLFtEQAAXm%2BUJABVgzWYndbBuM,2_0_0_1_644039ADvFtEQAAHP5UJAAwQhwT1K%2BPAs,&sort=date&order=down&startMid=0&hash=8f7a71fab00c80ee3fa02dddb015aa3a&.jsrand=3254277

I have heard this story (CEOs threatening workers with loss of jobs if they don’t vote Romney) several times lately. It is unclear as to how these employers could possibly know who you vote for unless they are handing out absentee ballots and looking over your shoulder. I hope that is not the next story that we are going to hear about…

Somebody should tell Jeff that Becca went to the parade with someone else, trick or treat on the Rascal.

‘The regular 5:00 meeting’ is a clue that you are in the wrong career. ANY regular meetings are a waste of time 90% of the time.

Dare we mention Elizabeth Edwards who had to put off her breast cancer treatment until after the election so she could continue to campaign for her ever-loyal hubby — my guess is that she didn’t “find out about it” the day before the election, but long before that.

In the aftermath of that S-storm they are more worried about which party gets more volunteers to help with its election. While at least 19 states had been seriously affected and are struggling to recover, all that candidates and their parties care about is which state is on whose side. Whoever really means to do the job they are so much after would (have) change(d) focus (I mean, even now isn’t too late… duh … meaning waking up later may be better than never … ? … sure, they went through the motions, Obama more than the other, since his job demanded, and since it put the ropes in his hands. Oh, and by the way, the other, who boasted he paid only 13% to the IRS because he put more than the balance into charity: did he take the opportunity to do the same now that he was given the occasion?) — who was really interested in the job, as I was saying, would have immediately and completely changed focus and joined in volunteering to help the recovery while postponing the election. They are not even smart. Who’s gonna take time and energy to get out to vote in these states? In conclusion, none of the candidates is worth the job since both failed the test God gave them. Their hearts are not with the people and their minds are not, period. And we the people would be a bunch of chicken-slaughterhouse-refuse if we don’t cancel this election and find us a set of real, Christian candidates. The test is for us as well. To pull our History and our Constitution from under the flood and use them as guidebook.