Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 01, 2010

You asked for it!

Mission Accomplished!

Today’s Deep Cover has another take on this topic:

http://www.gocomics.com/deepcover

Thank God, only two more years of this Obamination.

Abort! Abort! So stop it already! (shee)

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..took a SawShank forever to get to the punch line..but it was worth it…

He’s more moderate than I feared, and more moderate than I hoped. Unfortunately, moderate doesn’t get votes. I could never swallow either parties platform whole. If both stick to absolutely, nothing will get done. If the Right is seen as the party of NO, did the left ever consider throwing them a bone?

Take the war on terror. No matter how much fear is generated, the informed voter is going to realize defending our rights by taking them away does not sound sane. On the other hand, this questionable act has saved many lives by capturing many bombs before they explode. Obviously this is not black and white.

Health care? Make every Congressman read the damned thing and have experts explain the parts they don’t understand (I know, no jokes).Then get together and decide if Jimmy getting a cast on his arm is as important as Jane getting her teeth whitened. Should the Taxpayer pay for Eval Knievel’s 32nd visit to the ER? Is a 3 month premature crack baby worth $1m to keep alive one day? These are very tough question that got glossed over.

Lies? I believe the Prez believed he could get us out of Gitmo, Iraq, and Afghanistan in the time frame he promised.He should have hedged his promises as experienced politicians do. Those broken promises will haunt him. The biggest lie of getting something for nothing with universal health care may sink him. The voter will see higher premiums, taxes, waiting lines, and shortages of health care professionals.

November will be a voter knee jerk. The fun begins in 2012.

Lewreader said, 18 minutes ago He’s more moderate than I feared…

I agree with much of what you said. As for health care, all I want is the same plan Congress has.

^ You can get it from several different plans which provide Gov’t coverage.

Bill tidler, all congress’ health plans and pay raises are tied to all Fed Benefits. So, go apply for a job. Go to WWW.USAJOBS.COM you wouldn’t believe what’s out there. Lifeguards at Federal Beaches, Graveyard Caretakers in overseas cemetaries, Commissary Clerks at Embassies, etc.

I do prefer a thinking President.

Note: the health care is not the same for Congress and the rest, certainly not in the execution of it. One more dose of unreality from the right.

Ask Lew. He was a postman.

And your view of the gov program, Lew, sounds like every HMO. And they DO decide who dies currently, by withholding care that has been paid for. that’s reality, not the horror show gossip going on. If Congress doesn’t understand it, as you folks say, then how can you?

Sandfan: You mean 6 years. The midterms mean squat for the big push and things could easily look a lot better in two in you guys get your repubs in and they change the world like you say. ;-) And if they fail, they will just lie about it like they have for the last ten years. And it may at last fall on deaf ears.

Kudos to jrmerm.

Lew, he unfortunately threw the right a lot of bones, and look what we got, say, in health care. And they STILL accuse him of “cramming” it down their throats.

^Exactly - in their effort to get anyone from the PofN to buy into the process, they allowed amendment after amendment from the right into health care reform. All it got them was a watered down bill…

Hey, wonderful! ARF2 introduced me to another strip I didn’t know about - Deep Cover! I’ve read the last few days and I love it!

It has now become a part of my daily dose of comic strips. Well - I need to find out how often it’s updated.

Our “no sense” president had dreams about seeing dead people, so he made it so, as governor, and president- his thinking came from the final four inches of his “gut”.

“If the Right is seen as the party of NO, did the left ever consider throwing them a bone?”

How well did you follow the health care debates last year? Did you see the quote from one Republican senator, about this being Obama’s “Waterloo”? He said outright that even if the Democrats catered to every single Republican demand, they would reject the bill, because their goal was simply to make Obama look bad. That’s all they wanted. That’s all they want now. The Senate disgusts me.

So wait, he was thinking when he escalated the conflict in Afghanistan where no invading army has ever left victorious? Where the Soviets were held at bay for a decade in their own version of America’s VietNam? That’s when he’s thinking? Or is he thinking when he pushes for a brand new health care system which takes away benefits from people who are already under a government health care system? How much more of his thinking can we stand? Thinking isn’t all it’s cracked up to be if there’s no common sense behind it. And as for “feeling” our pain, I can recall the last President who “felt our pain” and how much he was actually feeling an intern instead, and trying to determine what the definition of “is” is.

NOLA, Obama was stuck in a bad situation in Afghanistan, largely because someone took their eye off the ball to go after a country unrelated to the “War on Terror”. The Taliban are rather hard to root out after they’ve had a while to dig in along the border with Pakistan.

Not sure what to say about your vague critisism of the health care bill, but I have heard many parents praising the provision that allows their kids to remain on their policies.

The right wing never forgets Monica, but conveniently forgets the years of prosperity and peace we enjoyed under Clinton. Especially the fact that he is the only president in the last 30 years under whom we lived within our means, with a balanced general fund budget.

The evening reading of Doonsbury posts is better than the morning.

And don’t worry about Afghanistan. The prez wants us out. He said so the sentence after he announced the 30,000 build up. Wouldn’t you love to play chess with this guy?

The FEHBP is the same for Congress as it is for federal employees except the Post Office. The Post office is the only Gov’t entity that has an actual working contract with the Fed. Gov’t.

Are those burning bushes in front of the White House?

Spaghettus, two things.

The “vague comment” about the health care plan refers to the fact that Medicare benefits are being cut to try and help pay for the new plan.

The balanced general fund budget was done with a Republican-led Congress, and occurred because of reductions in spending increases, which Democrats call “spending cuts”. That factor, along with a robust economy led to the “budget surplus” which we all know is a lie anyway. What Clinton did best about the economy and the budget, was stay out of the way of the changes that helped create that “budget surplus” and didn’t push for tax increases which would have slowed the economy.

My Gosh! Has the POTUS gone ghetto?