Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 27, 2015

Mr. Miller I salute you. Take the rest of the day off…You nailed it buddy…

I see the colorist decided more beer should have been drunk between panel 1 and 2…Urp!

No,Bob, not yet a consensus. There are plenty of dishonest people who don’t bother to run for office…

neeeurothrush, point well taken…It’s magic….

Speaking of…“…Crazy doesn’t always equal dishonesty…”Gohmert To FCC: ’You’re Playing God With The Internet!‘Ted Cruz: I’m Like Galileo For Denying Climate Change

Wasn’t (Cuban Canadian) Senator Ted Cruz among the 47 Treasonous Traitor Senators, and now wants to be President of (USA) 2016…?? And was he also AGAINST Obama Care…??Hypocrite Sen. Ted Cruz Joins Obamacare While Condemning It

Jesse Unruh: “If you can’t take their money, drink their booze, eat their food, screw their women and vote against them, you don’t belong here (politics).”

remember mr.cruz led the shut down of government with his reading of green eggs and ham that cost us a lower national credit rating..his main motive was to totally repeal Obama care..lets watch as he squirms his way out of why he is now accepting affordable health care..

Heck, just try telling the truth all the time, and see if people don’t call you crazy.

Generalizations tend to make thinking easier, but not often for the better.

Political parties are irrelevant. They all lie.

Wow, so is this the logical method that is used to determine ‘truth’? No wonder you dont believe in it.

“All elephants are blue. Nellie is blue. Nellie must be an elephant.”

Frankly, I’d rather deal with the politician, who may or may not lie, than someone who uses logic in this way.

It’s become increasingly likely (with occasional exceptions) that anybody who wants the job should not be allowed anywhere near it.A national (or state) lottery, perhaps from I dunno, licensed drivers (who’ve proved they can read, write, and get around the block at least) drafted for ONE term in the lower house. If they don’t blow it, another draft lottery among those for ONE term in the Senate. Then home.A growth industry in auditors – of everything with money.

I think it might actually be appropriate to say every American politician has had to be dishonest at least once. I specify because there are some places with / used to have non-elected politicians who can sometimes get away with getting in everyone’s face, but here… even if its only about someone’s baby, outfit, or haircut, I’m pretty sure all of them have lied. The reality is most have probably lied about something far bigger, but I’m pretty sure all have lied about something

Not so….by voting out a politician who is corrupt, a hypocrit or an ignorant bat poop crazy republican, then those that follow may learn a lesson……….not voting simply lets the most active and crazy minority to sieze control.

The difficulty lies in figuring out who the ultimate buyer is. Politicians are outstanding in the field of selling their souls to multiple buyers.

…simply Pray.

Oh-yeah, no kidding, like that’s ever going to go well with a lot of “OTHER” People…

Old Cruz also DID this…Ted Cruz Forces Liberty University Students To Attend His Speech-The Daily Show – Democalypse 2016 – Ted Cruz Is In

And maybe that is why so few voted. Jefferson was against the so-called ‘two-party’ system. He was right. Present practices shuts out compromise and thwarts good judgement and ethics. Leaving governing to those who can afford the price of the office.

I’m just going to vote for whoever is NOT an incumbent (even if it has to be a write-in) because both major parties have sold us all down the river. Whoever thinks one is any less venal than the other has been hitting the Kool-Aid a little too hard but, hey, a tool is a tool.

I know you’ve all heard it, but “How can you tell a politician is lying? His lips are moving.”

Talk about poor logic. “That leaves what kind of person?” Um…women? Guys without red hair? Senior citizens? People who don’t drink? People without two daughters? Who knows?

You can’t just take one aspect of a person and say, “The opposite of you is a person without this quality.” That’s beyond ridiculous.

Still not convince Ted Cruz is not a Hypocrite just by saying “fallowing the text of the law”?? Get a load of this, pay very close attention to between Time Index 00:29 ~ 01:11 and the rest…Lying Hypocrite: Ted Cruz Wants You To Think He Was Required to Sign Up for Obamacare

Bob has another reason to distrust the government. The vast majority of those elected are lawyers. He knows the animal.

“An honest politician………”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Isn’t that an oxymoron?

It’s not the dishonest or intentionally ignorant politician that is cause for concern, it’s the people who vote them into office that are the problem. Or the people who buy them into office.

@pbarnrob @Redkaycei RepocIt was Arthur C. Clarke who came up with the idea for drafting people into politics:

“For the last century, almost all top political appointments [on the planet Earth] had been made by random computer selection from the pool of individuals who had the necessary qualifications. It had taken the human race several thousand years to realize that there were some jobs that should never be given to the people who volunteered for them, especially if they showed too much enthusiasm. As one shrewed political commentator had remarked: “We want a President who has to be carried screaming and kicking into the White House — but will then do the best job he possibly can, so that he’ll get time off for good behavior.”  —Imperial Earth

You were close on Heinlein, who said, "He’s an honest politician — he stays bought." —Stranger in a Strange Land

it don’t think it much matters who is in office. I’m sure many start out with the best of intentions, but the nature of the government beast is a sink hole that drags all down

this is part of the problem – politicians are so thoroughly and widely criticized and vilified that no one in their right mind wants to run for office; vicious circle.

“Every nation has the government it deserves.”—Joseph de Maistre

♥ Elizabeth Warren ♥

Whether or not her principles match yours, you have to admire that she has managed to keep them even in Washington.

Politics in his work was interesting. In StarShip Troopers only those who served should vote because they understand sacrifice. I alway found that interesting.

“Crazy doesn’t equal dishonesty..” No, of course not! There are the crazy politicians, and then there are dishonest politicians. Take yer pick…

I’ll take Martha over any Republican, any day. And she shouldn’t have been charged with a crime, just an administrative mistake & fined, just like all the rest of those who did the same but who weren’t Democrats.

“Here’s a parable, let’s see if you can get the correlation, …”.Here is a more accurate correlation.Obama: OBEY ME I AM THE MESSIAH!!!Republicans: No you aren’t.Democrats: Praise and glory be to the one true god: Obama.The Democrats attitude could be typified by Harry’s Reid’s remarks when it came to the Republican bill for funding cancer treatment for children “why would we want to do that” (actual words). In other words according to Harry Reid letting children rot with cancer was preferable to going against his messiah.

Depends on who you ask. Stereotypes are often images and generalizations are often statements, but they can work hand-in-hand. And I have seen that meme before.

The United States has the finest politicians money can buy.

Lazarus Long / Robert A. Heinlein IIRC?

American conservatives have shamed themselves in front of God, their children, and the world…Why they went that way, I don’t know…..It troubles me…

So those who don’t want any government interfering with their individual rights to bully others, steal or use any means to climb over the bodies of masses to get what they want are correct…..Am I understanding you correctly?

Government is corrupted by the Big Money that it controls. The less power a government has, the less corruption it is capable of sustaining.

So all caesarians are also banned from office?

pbarnrob: The problem with term limits is that it gets rid of the few who actually serve the public, while the tools of the powerful are simply replaced by another tool of the powerful,

The money corrupting government is the money it controls, and its ability to favor one portion of the population or economic sector over another. It is power that corrupts. Money is only an instrument of power. This is why the government is meant to be limited in its power, so that it is less able to cause harm, and strictly prohibited from acting directly against the people it is meant to serve.We have our best lawyers working on ways to give government more power and allow its members to obtain more wealth by use of their power, though.

“But not a natural born U.S. citizen.”See my above response.