Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 23, 2014

The best answer is a non-answer.

Remember when Ron Ziegler was publicly shoved by Nixon? Yes, Nixon was something else, for sure…

Great post, thanks.

oooohh…so that’s where Poppy Bush learned his strange verbal non-abilities.

“I don’t know, but when I find out, I’ll get back to you”. Most politicians are more long-winded than a Southern Baptist preacher.

Curse you! It took me ten minutes to get up off the floor, I’ve used up my tears of laughter for a whole month!

Who knew Sarah Palin actually had a role model?

Reminds me of Sir Humphrey Appleby in “Yes Minister”. One example: “Yes, yes, yes, I do see that there is a real dilemma here. In that, while it has been government policy to regard policy as a responsibility of Ministers and administration as a responsibility of Officials, the questions of administrative policy can cause confusion between the policy of administration and the administration of policy, especially when responsibility for the administration of the policy of administration conflicts, or overlaps with, responsibility for the policy of the administration of policy.” or“It’s clear that the Committee has agreed that your new policy is really an excellent plan. But in view of some of the doubts being expressed, may I propose that I recall that after careful consideration, the considered view of the Committee was that, while they considered that the proposal met with broad approval in principle, that some of the principles were sufficiently fundamental in principle, and some of the considerations so complex and finely balanced in practice that in principle it was proposed that the sensible and prudent practice would be to submit the proposal for more detailed consideration, laying stress on the essential continuity of the new proposal with existing principles, the principle of the principal arguments which the proposal proposes and propounds for their approval. In principle. "(http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0030014/quotes)

@wecatsgocomicsIs the best reply a non-reply?

And that, boys, is the difference between an expert and a piker (Tony SnowJob, anyone?)

Classic Doonesbury is fine, but this stuff is so dated as to be boring for those of us who remember it the first time. Come on Trudeau, get to work! or Retire again.

Nixon era song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk8lowe83-A

Loved Yes Minster and Yes Prime Minister. This is my favorite Hacker/Humphrey encounter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

Along those same linesDonald Rumsfeld

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/d/donaldrums148142.html#pSbqSePIOoWbjGZt.99

@lindz.coopRegardless of political philosophy, that is the job of every press secretary. Also, answering the questions of a free press is something Leonid Brezhnev didn’t have to worry about.

I learned more about American politics from these “White House” strips than anything on the news.