Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 10, 2013

GOP motto: if you can’t win elections normally, cheat there’s no tomorrow.

Is the Republican Party going to “stop being the stupid party?” Not likely; they have their strategy. Consider: half of all Americans are of below average intelligence, and for the last 30 years the Republicans have been playing that half of our citizenry by either scaring the bejabbers out of them or making them feel right proud of their ignorance. In addition, the GOP has given succor and validation to an unsavory rabble of delusional Bible thumpers, paranoid gun nuts, venomous racists, sexists, authoritarian wingnuts, deeply selfish libertarians and haters and bigots of every stripe. From these fine folks the Thugs have assembled a very significant and motivated minority. Indeed, in too many areas of our country they are a majority. The OTHER result has been that pretty much anyone of good will who is sane and reasonably intelligent finds the Republican Party of today to be toxic, repulsive and very nearly traitorous. It’s a shame. I’ll confess that once upon a time I was a proud “Goldwater Republican” myself. No more. I am very certain that Goldwater himself would no longer sanction what the Republican Party has become.

Ike tried to warn us, careful not to put himself in the crosshairs, that the coup d’etat was already beginning, powered by (most of) the same folks Gen. Smedley Butler outed when they tried to overthrow FDR. 11/22/63 (JFK) was only a small part of it. It’s accelerating, though I’m not sure it’s complete.

Ignorance and woefully incomplete education is certainly not helping. Teach at least your own kids how to think!

POTUS could get off his butt and lead the country not trying to divide the country with his campaigning. All politicians should be required to pass a budget for the next 2 years before they take another effing vacation.

just try buying votes like the dems….

Most Democrats are concentrated in urban areas. They did that to themselves. Not everything is a grand plot…

Want to know what the dems are doing? Listen to what they accuse the republican of doing..

Why not? The Democrats do. Obama’s fear tactics are identical to the ones Clinton used 25 tears ago. What a damfool Doonesbury is and always has been.

Unfortunately demos own the urban machines and urban area by urban area rigging is how its done. It also helps a lot when you can rely upon Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy, Jive Turkey and everyone getting free stuff with other people’s money. What you get for all this is little kids being turned down for white house visits so enough money can be saved so u-no-who can hit a few white ones with Tiger.

Can’t get any more honest than that.

What crap! The only ones with stuffed ballot boxes were the dems committed to keeping that idiot Obama in office. Trudeau, you should be ashamed of yourself! Turn that political x-ray machine around 180 degrees and you’ll find the real villains using those tactics.

GT nailed it! Ha! I only wish it had no basis in reality in today’s strip.

UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL

they keep the american people fighting between rethuglican ,( love this term I have just learned from you CLARK KENT ) & democrap while they methodically destroy our way of life & freedom to fuel thier unholy GREED for $ & power. Will it ever end?

The GOP has indeed begun state by state election rigging, and they have been very public about doing so.

Looks like a smart phone.

I’m still glad I don’tknow squat about politics.

Hear! Hear!

That is so absurd. All Democrats are good? Right. lolololol

In my state the Rethuglicans tried to gerrymander my congessional district to favor them. It runs 200 hundred miles up to the Canadian border & they still failed. Unfortunately their dirty tricks have worked elsewhere & now we have a divided congress & budget sequester cuts ready to furlough thousands of workers.

extreme conservatives love the constitution except when it applies to other people.

“I recently read where test scores in Math and Science for Asian third graders were falling behind American High School students.”

I read that too. In The Onion. :-)

The Democrats win by promising what they can’t deliver. The Republicans win by promising what they have no intention of delivering.

“The difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats believe what they say. They’re wrong, but they believe it. The Republicans don’t believe in anything except winning elections.” — Robert Novack

Only a fool would believe anything Trudeau promotes. He is just another Goebbels clone spouting left-wing propaganda.

Good job Dycel! You know your hard work won’t make any difference to the righties though, right?

A gentle suggestion: You may wish to avail yourself, and the rest of us, of the utility of TinyURL.com. Thank you.

When voter suppression was tried in the last election, it failed. However, gerrymandering by GOP did produce a GOP majority in congress despite far more Democratic votes than GOP votes. The GOP wants to hang in there, despite the fact that there are fewer and fewer rich white folks around, a constituency they desperately need in order to stay in power.

I’ve finally realized that Garry Trudeau doesn’t have to be inspired to come up with these strips. All he does is pay attention….

DFTT

If all else fails, leave the election up to the Supeme Court.** The election of President should be determined by popular vote like we demand of any other Democracy.

Better watch out, sarge, you’re about to lose the crazy crown to some new upstart trolls.

“How do you breath with your head so far….”Through the blowhole, of course.

Would you care to share the superior nationality youhappen to embrace ??

It’s tough out there for a GOP pimp.

Be they republican or democrats, neither one is getting the job done that they are being paid to do. Most, if not all, should be stood against the wall at sunrise. If we could get rid of them and their staff, and all of the lobbyists, maybe only honest, intelligent, and responsible people would want to be congress persons and senators….

@dlmettler – I think you have that backwards.

Now, I think GT is just messing with us regarding the artisanal stuff. Andrews has 2 or 3 loose hairs over his bald area in panel one, they disappear in panel 2, and reappear in the rest of the strip.It is like his own version of “NINA” (NY Times artist used to draw his daughter name Nina into his sketches and then right the number of times the name appears next to his signature).Here is a Abe Hirschfeld cartoon in which the name Nina appears 9 times, as indicated by the number next to Hirschfeld’s signature.-http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070616024605/muppet/images/d/d9/Hirschfeld-sesame.png

wasn’t it a gop congress who passed a law to exempt drug compounders from the fda. 10 years later, people are dying from fungal meningitis because of no oversight.

This is absolutely honest. The GOP ideal is to return to the day of white male property owners as the only voters.

Plus, the folder on the right hand side is pink in the second panel and yellow in the other panels in which it appears.There is no coffee mug in the second panel but it appears in the fourth and sixth panel.

Watch out calimaghazi, you lost focus for a minute there and dropped in the wrong lie. Glad you caught yourself.

Well, Jim, if YOU have any actual knowledge on the topic, why don’t you enlighten us? I’ve long wondered whether you are privy to facts I don’t have and are too lazy write something about them, or if you are just (figuratively) shooting off your mouth. Here’s your chance to look good.

Why won’t one honest person in the GOP admit that the President’s opponents are using Benghazi to destroy the President and not out of any desire for justice or the truth?

Your enemies will always, ALWAYS, accuse you of what they are guilty of. Always.

A good hit, long overdue! I wonder whether this is the typical one-shot or will he stay on it? And, if so, how? Note that it is prospective, what they plan qo do as opposed to what they’ve already done.

I’d really like to see the guy say “Well everybody says we’re cooked, but that’s just because dumb Americans and their media can’t see past the White House; since we rigged our way into the House and all those statehouses in 2010, we were able to lock ourselves in with a little ruthless gerrymandering pretty much forever; and by the way, when those states begin apportioning electoral votes by those same gerrymandered House districts, we’ll be back to 1600 Penn too; so you see, Mike, while we may have to rig the odd race here or there, most of the dirty work’s already done, we’re stuck like a bone in America’s throat, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.” Probably asking too much. Well I hope he doesn’t let it go and I hope others, like Borowitz, have the courage to jump on.