La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for November 21, 2014

On the one hand, it’d get Rush farther out of the way. On the other, we’d have instantly turned Kenya into an enemy state.

And heck, the Republicans could have passed immigration reform a long time ago, but kept defaulting to being the party of “No.” And so now we’ll enjoy the privilege of having them go on about how Obama taking executive action on immigration is very, very different than when Reagan and GHW Bush did the same thing, or trying to avoid mentioning those two at all.

Have you ever read Mallard Filmore?

I was thinking more like Sierra Leone or Guinea….

Or Imperial Rome…but without the intellectuals.

My stepson is going to Ecuador with the Peace Corps in January. I hear it’s a wonderful country. Please don’t suggest polluting it with Limbaugh! Honduras is more his style..As for the filibuster, wave goodbye, I’m sure the first order of business will be to completely end it. republicans can brook no interference as they set about to destroy America once and for all.

So Agrestic wants to send Rush Limbaugh away, eh?

It’d be a cushy job for a poisonous person. It was also a joke. But yeah, I’d like Limbaugh to be driven from the airwaves, and this is happening, slowly but surely, due to boycotts and listener feedback. You know, some of what you’re trying to do with Lalo. Except that your tactics have proven less effective.

Rather smacks of another Final Solution we’ve seen…

Ah, straight to Godwin, I see. So since you’re actively campaigning to get a certain brown cartoonist removed, by your own logic you’ve joined the party of Goebbels.

The Democrats were in control of Congress, but the Republicans are blamed for inaction

When the Democrats were in charge of the full Congress, they got the ACA passed, as well as some important financial stabilization measures. And had to fight Republican filibusters the whole way through. Once Republicans gained control of the House, everything ground to a halt. This, as you may recall, even included a literal government shutdown. Republicans in the Senate, meanwhile, have done everything they can to slow down nominations for cabinet posts and judgeships. Even judges that Republican Senators themselves put forward. So yeah. Republicans are absolutely on the hook for inaction. And they don’t mind, because their mantra is that government doesn’t work and they’re out to prove it.

And Ag goes on about how Bush and Reagan abused executive privilege same as she is accusing the Republicans will do about Obama.

Actually, I’m not doing that at all. My claim is the opposite: that what Obama has done is completely within the purview of the executive. Which is why it was legally fine when Reagan and Bush did it and why it’s legal for Obama to do it. It wasn’t an abuse then, and it isn’t now.

I’m curious, what color is the sky in your world? What did you have for breakfast? For someone who is so reasonable, why so negative? Didn’t your mommy love you enough?

The color of the sky in my world changes depending on the time of day. How ‘bout yours? I had food for breakfast. How ’bout you? My mother loves me a whoooooooole lot. How ’bout yours?

It’s easy to just be contrary to a posting and get personal. Doesn’t really take much thought or effort at all.

Considering that your postings are almost exclusively contrary toward a strip or other folks’ postings, complete with personal barbs, I suppose you have a good sense of that!

The Republicans reason to exist since 2010 was to make the first Black President a “one term” regardless of how right wing he is.

Actually, they were conferencing in 2009, even before the inauguration, about how to make this happen.

your total lack of comprehension about the many times I have said I am not a Republican

You may not be one, but based on what you present here, if you were in Congress, you’d be caucusing with ’em.

Anyhow, in this case it’s you who need to check your comprehension. Night-Gaunt didn’t say anything about you being a Republican. Night-Gaunt was questioning your silence on the matter of Mallard Filmore‘s partisanship. Even if Night-Gaunt weren’t talking about MF, there was nothing in that comment about you being part of the GOP. One needn’t be a member of the Party to sound exactly like one.

You’re not being very specific with your list. And speaking of predictability, I’m not sure that anyone would accuse you of being particularly surprising in what you post. This is fine. But why the double standard?

So how about that misunderstanding you had about what I meant regarding comparing Obama with Reagan and Bush? No mention or correction by indie (predictably).

Find fault with what I do, yet admitting that she wants to do the same to the other side.

I never said you couldn’t do what you’re doing. But I am saying you’ve picked a highly inefficient way of going about it. And I also generally strongly disagree with the points you make in your quest to do it. You may disagree with my desire to see Limbaugh’s voice shrink until he’s got no megaphone left. Maybe that would be because you agree with Limbaugh, or want to keep his voice as part of a diversity of outlooks. All that’s fine. But there are no inconsistencies between what I’ve said and my criticisms of you.

I don’t understand why it so critical that she discredit me

This is, once again, what it known as projection. Let’s see…I made a post about today’s strip. And then you wrote a post as an attempt to discredit me, including a not-so-glancing reference to Nazism. In fact, the great proportion of your own posts—by your own standards—are meant to discredit Alcaraz, or me, or whoever happens to be in direct disagreement with you at a given moment.

spend an inordinate amount of reprisal

Reprisal for what? I’m just pointing out the many places you’re wrong.

I figure my comments are so important that they need much attention.

While you are an important, precious child of god, you say many things that are wrong (and that often come across as mean-spirited), just as do other folks here. Even sometimes me! Rather than let those wrong things go, I and others point out that they are wrong. This may make you frustrated and even angry, but it’s the nature of a public forum such as this.

Doesn’t it make you feel a bit slighted to have Agrestic speak for you?

Hmm…rather than address the issue at hand, you pivot to another ad hominem attack. I’m going to posit that this is in part because to admit you’re wrong is anathema to you. Which, come to think of it, you would seem to have in common with the GOP.

Quite a few posts today! If it wasn’t for agrestic and indie, I’ll bet this strip would just be floating down the river…

But they made it official in 2010 unless I am mistaken.

I believe you’re correct in that.

The greater the ego the more difficult it is to acknowledge ones errors.

It’s often a great struggle to get to the point where one can do so. I try to be fairly good about it, but perfection can only ever be something to strive for.

I don’t know. But I do know what you’re doing now ain’t gonna do it.