Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 29, 2010

“Waste and fraud” would mean “all of the above.”

Well, Sarah still has their attention!

I’d blame it on dem danged Irishmen. After we git rid of dem we send dem injuns back where they came from.

The tea-podders are childish, stupid, and..?

Yes, all of the above.

Funny, they didn’t mention those programs they dissed the previous two days. Trudeau isn’t paying attention to his own strip.

What? A Republican claiming she doesn’t intend to BORROW from the Chinese and the Saudis to finance their pork barrel nonsense?

Stop the presses. That’d be one I’d have to see to believe.

What’s that Ravenswing? You don’t believe that a politician would CLAIM to INTEND to do ANYTHING if said claims would help it get elected?

..Sarah Palin jokes are different from blond jokes,how???….

Well this about some up Washington.

Finally, an accurate representation of what the Tea Party movement is all about. The “No New Taxes and Borrowing” - from Democrats OR Republicans - seems a lot less like a political agenda and more like plain ol’ common peoples’ common sense.

No wonder there’s such hatred for the Tea Partiers from the left.

Nemesys - easy to say, not so easy to do once you’re in office. I haven’t heard anything from the tearoom in terms of how they actually plan to accomplish most of the things they want.

Orgelspieler, saying “no” to programs like that false “stimulus” program, carbon tax, and VAT is a good place to start. Supporting businesses to expand and hire - instead of vilifiying and taxing them until they leave the country- is even better. Real border security and increased drug user penalties (while not a specific tea party platform issue) would keep the benefits pot a little more under control. And finally, renovation of mandatory social programs such as Social Security and Medicare that would give participants the right to choose private alternatives would foster investments in the country (each other) rather than overfeeding the glutonous ponzi-scheming government monster (both Republicans and Democrats), which has already spent on other things that which it has been entrusted.

None of it would be easy, but it’s all being said (not reported in the NY Times, CNBC or Comedy Central, of course).

Hey, I’d be one of them if they were actually one of them.

Test is coming in Florida. Crist is running independent. Pat Buch. is already saying the guy is trying to go to the left so the Repubs will not split and hand the election to the dems. Nice litmus test to see if a conservative can win Indep. like Joe did. Might tea up a few runs later on. :0)

Wow, Nems, such an unbiased presentation, I’m stunned so many people attack you.

HOW many weapons could have been bought with the bridge (and the road) to nowhere funds that she spent?

Nemesys said: “Finally, an accurate representation of what the Tea Party movement is all about.”

You’re more correct than you know. Everything is rah-rah until they have to get specific; then they realize that they will have to sacrifice something that isn’t a straw man – the shoe pinches badly when it’s on the other foot.

“Plain ol’ common peoples’ common sense” usually means, “Don’t bother me with complications I don’t want to understand – just make anything I don’t like go away.”

As for your other post, well…send us a picture postcard from your planet, will you? It sounds so much simpler than the one we really live on.

“And which programs have the most waste and fraud to be trimmed…?”

“PIGGY’S programs!”

“No - Mr. POTATO Head’s!”

“ANDY’S!”

“PONY’S!!!”

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“I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round… I really love to watch them roll….” – John Lennon

Nemesys ,

Why do you want people to hate you, other than crypto-masochism and willfully incipient martyrdom?

But Sweet Sarah is even cuter as she leads you people to the EVE OF DESTRUCTION.

“Waste and Fraud”?

I’m pretty sure that’s spelled “D-E-F-E-N-S-E.”

Fat chance we’ll ever cut that.

Really, it is a pity that irony and sarcasm are so difficult to identify in printed form ~~ and the difference between Palin jokes and Blond jokes is that blondes read labels.

jeanne1212,

Irony, sarcasm, mockery, ridicule… it’s all good.

nemesys wrote: “Finally, an accurate representation of what the Tea Party movement is all about”

Utter stupidity is what the movement is all about. Complete lack of education. But mostly cognitive dissonance.

nemesys wrote: “No wonder there’s such hatred for the Tea Partiers from the left.”

You seem to be struggling. Let me help. The left hates the “baggies” because: a) they tarnish the name of the Sons of Liberty who risked their lives to form a new nation, b) only those who actually have knowledge should be permitted an opinion. Since the combined knowledge of those attending a baggie party is less than that of a rock, they do not have the basis for bloviating, c) the baggies hate this country and the principles upon which it was founded. They simply don’t understand enough to know how wrong they are.

Soldierboy is right. Cutting waste and fraud from Medicare was going to finance all the wonderful results that a creepingly nationalized healthcare system is supposed to bring us.

So they’ve had over 40 years to get all the waste and fraud out of Medicare. Shouldn’t they have gotten that done by now? And of course, there won’t be any waste and fraud in the new system, right?

But Leftists are long-used to dreaming of pie-in-the-pie fantasies, like the Worker’s Paradise on Earth.

misterwhite, it must be hard to type with your legs tingleing :-)

What good is an ideology if doesn’t make you sound like an idiot?

Hey, Gary, how ‘bout an arc on Everybody Draw Muhammed Day?

Super Griz ~~ yes, irony and sarcasm do go well with mockery and ridicule, but in printed form , all pre-supppose a goodly level of intelligence on the part of the Reader.

Sometimes “I ha’e m’ do’ots” and take the comments with a lifted eyebrow!

jeanne1212,

Plucked, I hope…

pschearer

I suspect you mis-read Soldierboy’s post.

We could actually balance the budget by cutting military spending–all of it.

rawebb: Welcome to Earth, friend. On this world, the military is as necessary as it gets. Follow your own logic: we could save money by eliminating police and fire departments, too, but you wouldn’t like the results very much.

Somebody once said that, in a democracy, you get the government you deserve. That’s an increasingly scary thought.

Fox is running numbers? Have the police been informed?

Sarah Palin is so cute, she’s well on her way to becoming a very wealthy woman.

Joe,

Seems like most posters here have forgotten that this is a girl’s dream and needed reminding. Thank you and now I’m sacking out. Good night all.

Monday’s strip doesn’t actually give any indication that she is dreaming….you have to simply assume it.

The subtext of this week’s Doonesbury strip is positively preternatural.

Every time the strip defines a particular lunacy of tea-podders, a reader responds as a real life example of that lunacy.

“Podders” deriving from the “pod people” of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”.

Some of you seem to forget that national defense is one of the few constitutionally explicitly mandated roles of the federal government.