Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for August 05, 2011

Please send to the President.

Great. I will now spend my day imagining tsunami’s of vomit. Rooms full of spew. Orphans swimming in Urrp. A chain reaction of technicolor yawns. Not to mention oppossums riding cotton ponies.

“Job creators need ponies!” Pitch perfect—couldn’t have summed up the lower and middle class’s willingness to sacrifice self at the altar of the rich any better!

The difference between then and now? We have forgotten that the purpose of government is defending individual rights. Not solving problems. Not managing the economy. Not redistributing wealth. Not doling out charity. Not granting favors to cronies or constituents.

“…to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men…” Remember?

Well, if they signed *pledges"…

Again with the possum jokes. Will it never end?

pschearer, your comment doesn’t really make sense. the government has evolved to fulfill the wishes of the people. also, your statement about how it used to be is highly simplistic and does not accurately assess the early US government’s role in the lives of the people.

@pschearer- from the document you folks want us to take verbatim, unless you don’t agree with it: “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution…”

Van Jones is on the mark when he says teabaggers are only one third patriots, real patriots don’t just want liberty, they want liberty and justice for all.

And to clear up any possible confusion, “our posterity,” doesn’t mean the back ends of horses.

At least those menstruating opossums finally got their dues.

“It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.”— James Madison, Federalist Paper 45 [emphasis added]

PLEEZE don’t get Palin and Bachmann riled about the menstruating opposums issue! They’e crazy enough already ….

And Tom again does NOT get it about the “negotiations.” Hostage crisis, Tommy boy, NOT actual negotiation. ALSO, the Republicans got next to nothing of what they wanted. So who bowed to whom?

One may make the argument that a nation should be brought to its knees by a minority of ideologues, and that when said nation is crippled it is to be picked over and cannibalized for spare parts. One may make the argument that the majority should suffer. Just get the hell out of my bar when you do it.

jimjammer, it depends on whom the Repubs nominate to run against him. It seems the Tea Party is the Tail that wags the Elephant, so if they hijack the GOP convention and insist on a nominee that passes THEIR muster, Obama keeps the center. McCain got as many votes as he did in 2008 because he was the LEAST scary of the Republicans.

So far, the Cons haven’t put forth a single viable candidate. The SANEST ones, the ones most likely to appeal to Obama supporters (current and former) are getting the $#!t beat out of them by Tea Party candidates promising everything will be just fine, once we turn the clock back 200 years.

Hell, even mainstream Repubs are changing their tune, soundling like they’re trying to out-bat-shit Bachmann herself.

So, yeah, I guess you could say a lot of people who voted for Obama in ’08 ARE supporting the Tea Party… in undermining the GOP…

jimjammer redux: why do comments from the right invariably come with instructions to drink something? You just can’t get a woody without some puerile put-down thrown in—it’s so much nicer if you invited someone to enjoy a cold, refreshing glass of a domestically brewed IPA. See, you don’t have to go Archie Bunker on everyone just to make some totalitarian point.

At this point all we can do is pine over what Americas middle class used to be. We have to hope they never drop the bomb on us.

There are plenty of villains to go around, most of them behind the scenes: bankers come to mind, global energy moguls, pharmaceutical king pins, wacko end-timers, racist totalitarians—the list goes on and on. The table has been set by a host of extremists and ideologues and your run-of-the-mill greedy bastards. Obama’s 2008 campaign was funded by banking money and the hoi polloi. I don’t care for his treatment of liberals in general, I don’t care for anyone who starts a mini-lecture with “Look, you have to…” I don’t need any heroes right now—I just need clear-eyed, hard working people who don’t demonize fellow Americans to score points with their base. I don’t expect democracy to come from our corporate masters, or from one man. I expect it come from as many of us as possible. Note: when you ascribe a belief to someone else, i.e. “…your boy in the WH is Jim Jones to you…” and you don’t know that other person, when you cast aspersions without any first-hand knowledge you come across as a fool and a lout. Try conversation that isn’t smothered in Limbaugh’s ball sweat: you might enjoy the fresh air.

Oh, jimjam, the quote was regarding “demonizing” not “slamming”—not splitting hairs here. Your politics are worthy of being slammed, but no, not even they rise to the level of demons. The tactics of gross generalizations, when used against you, make you feel somehow victimized, yes? Without your hatred of a presumed enemy, what can you do? What will you do? Slam away, dear lad, slam away!