Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 30, 2011

How about $100,00, drinks and a dinner?

Reminds me of the dialog attributed to Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw:  GBS: Madam, would you sleep with me for a million pounds?  

Actress: My goodness, Well, I’d certainly think about it.  

GBS: Would you sleep with me for a pound?  

Actress: Certainly not! What kind of woman do you think I am?  

GBS: Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.

I meant $100,000 but if you can get it for dime on the dollar, why not?

We know what U meant, LWP. But the “dime on the dollar” was clev 2.

The trouble with interviewing a moron is that Rick (and GBT) has to interrogate him in cliches. These strips on a fading Republican star whose own party will never endorse him are getting tedious. One more day, presumably, and then GBT will switch to Joannie interviewing Elizabeth Warren.

How about half a billion? Or maybe 732 billion for Pelosi’s brother-in-law…Whoops…Not fair. My bad. Of course there’s not funny business involved in the Obama Presidency! Ignore Solyndra. And Gunwalker. And LightSquared…Nothing to see here. Look! Palin’s sleeping with negroes!Orion

Remember Wisconsin governor Scott Walker? Back in February while in the middle of a major crisis involving the Wisconsin state employees union, Walker received a cold call from arch-conservative billionaire David Koch – although it later turned out to be an impersonator of Koch. Governor Walker dropped everything to chat with “Koch” for over 20 minutes – and the real Koch wasn’t even a resident of Wisconsin. Walker later said he didn’t know Koch – but it was obvious from the recording of the chat Walker sure wanted to.-Rick Perry, like Walker, impresses me as someone who is not only a willing lapdog for the moneyed interest, but is actually proud of it. I sometimes wonder how the good people of Wisconsin or Texas could elect the likes of Walker and Perry. But then, perhaps the “good” people didn’t.

I wonder how much Perry is paid each time a Texas prison executes a death row inmate?

RinaFarina, where RU now that we need U?

He’s a Merckenary.

Have we seen any cartoons from Trudeau making fun of Mitt Romney? No one who appears in Doonesbury escapes Trudeau’s gentle satire (gentle compared to the venom I see elsewhere) The politician who makes the best showing in this strip is the one who never shows up at all. Romney Republicans have good reason to thank Trudeau for playing whack-a-mole with the likes of Palin and Perry, while ignoring Romney. Of course it is the easy targets he goes after, those who have most opened themselves for parody. What would he do if our politics were full of dull, colorless, private, intellectual, businesslike, soft-spoken, and virtuous people? With all the maundering talk about the Founding Fathers and the Constitution, it always bemuses me to think how utterly incapable of being elected to high office today would be anyone with the mind, personality and temperament of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, or Monroe.

The primary canidates make a good statement that more funds need to be mandated towards public education.

He’s pricey. And Susan. killing is never right. The death penalty is no exception.

HA! That’s the first thing that popped in my head when I heard him (in the debate) say he was offended that anyone thought he could be bought for 5K. O.K. we’ve established what you are, now we’re just haggling over the price.

Perry is a sleazy joke, but he has no chance of getting the nomination, so we can relax. To see who gets the Big Pharma money, check out OpenSecrets. It seems that they have become an equal opportunity corrupter.

Much better to shut murderers up in a cage to waste their minds and health until some microbe gives them a horrible, painful, slow death? Unless they escape and go on another ramage. In war, the other people invade your country, kill your people, if you don’t shoot back you’re acquiescing to murder. A murderer has made war on all of us and ought to be tried, and if convicted fairly, executed. Imagine a mass prison breakout, not absurd in a general govt breakdown. Why kill a murderer slowly over 40 years? That’s not humane, and it’s dangerous.

oh, pappy, once you go down that road, eventually you wind up killing an innocent person…..just one, just one innocent person killed by the state is enough to make the death penalty outmoded and archaic

those “corrupted absolutely” are Already Dead.

So Trudeau would rather take on a possible state pay-to-play than a proven Executive Branch pay-to-play. Wonder if his political leanings have anything to do with the decision?

Susan, we see the face of “The Donald” when he’s in the strip….. we, at least the hair….

killing is never right, but a hunting trip with Cheney is in order for Perry….. and Bush.

I’m voting for Bachman in March!!!

Rick just proved he won’t bash you with a sack of quarters. He’d never bow for “small change”. MIchelle Bachmann, not so sure.

I have no sympathy for “unrepentant, racist murderers” but cannot support the death penalty. We’re lousy at proving guilt, and Texas is horrible at it.Death penalty as deterrent to criminals? Hah. Ever hear of a criminal who thought he’d ever get caught, or considered what sentence he’d get for his crimes?

Orion-13: How about half a billion? Or maybe 732 billion for Pelosi’s brother-in-law…Whoops…Not fair. My bad. Of course there’s not funny business involved in the Obama Presidency! Ignore Solyndra. And Gunwalker. And LightSquared…Nothing to see here. Look! Palin’s sleeping with negroes! DylanThomas3.14159: How do you separate truth from falsehood, O-13? finkd: In politics, they’re one and the same. DylanThomas3.14159: Jeepers creepers, finkd, I didn’t know Orion-13 was running for office!

State executions, Rasczak, not Mexican Mafia executions.

That doesn’t take into account the costs of trials and appeals and final execution if the appeals don’t work.

Hey Raz, you have to make sure and double tap, that would be about $.68

While the squeamish among us wring their hands over capital punishment, President Obama brings us real justice. Our Chief Executive (the title indicates the main function of the leader of a republic) just announced that he has taken out the American terrorist who was born in New Mexico:“Awlaki and his organization have been directly responsible for deaths of many Yemeni citizens. His hateful ideology and targeting of innocent civilians has been rejected by the vast majority of Muslims and people of all faiths. And he has met his demise because the government and the people of Yemen have joined the international community in a common effort against Al Qaeda.”

In the case of Obama’s latest execution, N-G, you’ve got it backwards. Justice is a republic’s greatest strength. When Rome turned into a Christian empire, its Christian subjects (the ancestors of today’s secular liberals) despaired of justice and preached that all retribution or revenge should be left to God.

@dtπ: but what do you need me for? I have no wise or witty remarks to make. Not being an American, I don’t know the details of what goes on in the USA.

@SUSAN NEWMAN,

There are exceptions. My point was Perry’s income from the executions.

Whether it’s right or not, the reasoning was that the ground on which he was killed was a lawless war zone, to which he fled so as to be out of reach. We would have pursued arrest and execution if he were any place that was under government control.