Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for May 01, 2012

The ones in there right now are about a competitive equal.

This strip has been co-written by Garry Trudeau.

oh yes, that despot just hits da spot

Obviously not talking about our 8% congress.

Yes, a single King can’t possibly blow money as fast as Congress can!!

Tyrants work harder for the money?

What do members of congress do with all those barrels of pork they buy?

I imagine there have been benevolent, hard-working tyrants — as always, of course, they would be outnumbered by the self-seeking jerks.

Tyrants don’t need the high profile of elected office, they just pay off the corrupt whores in congress to do their bidding.

OH FOR GAWD SAKES! EVERYBODY WHO BLAMES BUSH FOR EVERYTHING, REALLY ARE LIVING IN YOUR FOOLS PARADISE! That ship sailed about 2 years ago.

If our founding fathers thought taxation without representation was bad, they should see it with representation!

Lemme see if I’ve got this right: Congress spends money, and you think it’s GONE? burned, like wood, or gasoline? Congress CIRCULATES money, and you DO get some.

Yes, they ARE crooks, many of them. But you’re using that reason because you’re faddish.

Are you sure our tyrants have a higher approval rating??

How very true… The US is about to elect (or re-elect) one. The current one just signed a law authorizing the military to arrest US citizens without due process. Also signed another law saying he can take sweeping ‘emergency’ powers during peace or war time. But his approval ratings are high enough I guess. America wants a king, and it has one.

Ah, yes, the Clinton vaporware “surplus”. if the media would let the Republicans do creative accounting like that, they’d have won the election. The Clinton downturn began on Clinton’s watch, when he turned the dot-com boom into a bust by threatened and real regulation of what could have been a free-market net economy.