Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 07, 2014

Yup, back in session… Keep ’em coming bar keep.

And you will hear of (Congress) and rumors of (Congress) . See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.

Hang in there little dude….2014 is going to be FUN!….Nothing but FUN! FUN! FUN!.

Why do you think he goes from newborn baby to old man in one year!!

In that case, make mine a double…

Tomorrow or the next day decides whether I get to spend the next 3 months looking for work or sitting in a prison cell. Come on, papa needs a new pair of shoes!

Considering the ones they DO pass, it may bejust as well they don’t pass more!

It’s a curious case.

Wiley says – “Not a good start”.

Would that be because noone will let them pass?

I get the feeling that Miller got the idea for this image first and then, after he drew it, tried to come up with a good punchline.

" Congress is so strange; a man gets up to speak and says nothing, nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees.">>>>Will Rogers>>>>>>>>>>>and again :

“We all joke about Congress but we can’t improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?”

Yer kidding?

“If pro is the opposite of con, what’s the opposite of progress?”

“the Senate of the U.S. no longer has any resemblance to that August assembly which provoked the admiration of the Tocquevilles (Alexis de Tocqueville, author of “Democracy in America,” 1835). It would be no use looking for the foremost men of the nation there; neither statesmen nor orators are to be found in it. The body is filled with men of mediocre or no political intelligence, some of whom, extremely wealthy, multi-millionaires, look on the Senatorial dignity as a title for ennobling their well or ill-gotten riches and with crack wirepullers and party bosses who find the Senate a convenient base of operations for their intrigues and designs on the public interest.”-Moisey Ostrogorsky. This paragraph was written in 1902.

There are many who say Congress is a mirror of the US as a whole. If that’s the case, it’s a funhouse mirror

And the bar serves minors? Shouldn’t they wait at least until February?

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than deal with Congress’ concept of economy.

I would say it’s O’s fault “AFFORDABLE Care Act” More like “Give me what I want and I’ll go away” what he wanted he got , now the rest of the populace of the country is screwed!

I’m beginning to think that 2014 might not be a banner year for anyone who isn’t in total control of the “purse strings”!

It’s not just the Republicans who work few days in the House. All members spend way too much time fund raising and getting ready to run again. Very similar to the Florida Legislature, which is part time. They spend so much time organizing themselves for future legislative sessions (as in, who will be House Speaker next session) that by the time they get to actual legislation, bills either pass without being read (and create real problems for residents and local governments), or, most likely, the budget doesn’t pass and a ‘special session’ (at great cost) has to be called.

Gerrymandering sets it up so that many congresspersons act only in deference to their homogeneous little band of constituents, not to anyone else.

When McKinley was shot, he lingered on for weeks before dying. Roosevelt did not assume the presidency until then, Congress and the Supreme Court were in recess. In short, we had no Government. It was probably the greatest period in American history.

-He wanted a Health Care program as they have in Canada or Europe but he took the only one the Congress would pass.-Back in 2003, Mr. Obama said he supported a single payer system. But things change when people run for office and discover that they need support. Sometime during his run against Hillary Clinton, Mr. Obama discovered that he needed the support of insurance companies to have a successful candidacy. So his views on how to ‘reform’ health care changed. Now, it’s not about improving health care. It’s about making insurance ‘affordable’.

-To me the single biggest betrayal is the way that health insurance subsidies and the expansion of Medicaid are being made affordable. Per the report of the Actuary for Health and Human Services (a nonpartisan math expert), the funds to pay for these subsidies are diverted directly from Medicare. In order to make this possible, strict caps have been put on reimbursement of doctors and hospitals accepting Medicare insurance such that, as the Actuary says, 10% of those providers will have to turn new Medicare insured patients away. -So we will have people over age 65 with useless insurance cards, people under 65 with subsidies that may get them an insurance card but no guarantee of improved treatment, and this is progress? Teddy Kennedy is probably rolling in his grave.-I’m now an independent, formerly a Democrat. It was not just the Republicans who messed this thing up.

ALL parties, -ologies, and -isms are essentially meaninglesswindow-dressing. A politician’s [and that’s what they all are]sole and exclusive interest consists in getting elected, stayingelected, and getting as rich and influential as possible thewhile.

All laws should have an expiration date – that way, they would be busy voting on extending the old laws that made sense, too busy for new ones and too busy to extend bad laws.

I’m with the New Year. Shut up, bar boy, and keep pouring. If my stomach doesn’t finally kill me this year I don’t think I can take another year of having to listen to the damn doctors and nurses in Utah talk politics all day. Isn’t chemo painful enough by itself?