This just about sums things up (pic)

[TheBigotBasher]

[trotsky]

1. Damn if that ain't depressingly true. n/t

[Alameda]

2. Right on!

[L0oniX]

3. K & R

[tavalon]

4. The only little bit of extra reality I would add in the last frame is:

SAVE US FROM THE BIG BLACK GOVERNMENT! There is such a huge element of racism to the teabaggers.

[dchill]

8. +1

yup

[leeroysphitz]

52. Big Black Government.

I'd vote for it.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Yes I see it

or I would if there was a pic

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Bing-

-go.

Horsey does it again.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. ..

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[rainy]

9. It should have a frame about the savings and loans debacle of the 80's

[Angry Dragon]

10. Am I the only one that can not see the picture??

[siligut]

12. Don't know, I can see it.

Does this help?

[Angry Dragon]

13. It helps a lot .... Thank You

[HughBeaumont]

11. "Screw the middle/working/poor . . . that is, unless we need them to bail us out . . . again . . "

People keep voting them back in. That's what's sad.

[butterfly77]

19. or if they need the poor...

for their WARS to protect their interests(our jobs)overseas..

[applegrove]

14. If only the teabaggers would read a comic like this and get it.

[progressoid]

15. From the teabaggers point of view it was the Govt that caused those things.

Just tune into AM radio or Fox and you'll hear someone blame these things on too much Govt interference and regulation.

[whathehell]

16. Great 'toon. n/t

[xchrom]

17. recommend

[WillyT]

18. K & R !!!

:kick:

[AnArmyVeteran]

20. Sweet, very sweet cartoon!

[RushIsRot]

21. Tea is not brain food.

[TBF]

22. K&R nt

[classof56]

23. Good one! Thanks for posting.

We all know, of course, the teabaggers won't get/understand this. Sad, sad, sad but true! And the rest of us who do have to live with it. Lord help us all!

[KT2000]

24. Billboard material

and every Democratic member of Congress needs a copy so they know how to respond instead of cower.

[racaulk]

25. Yep, that's pretty much it.

Depressing as it is. :(

K&R

[me b zola]

26. K&R

[indimuse]

27. KNR! n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

28. Tbaggers: I don't want to pay taxes, but don't touch my SS or Medicare!!!!!!!!!!!!

Idiots. They are all idiots, and the really evil ones in the party, manipulate them so easily that it would be comical if it were not so scary.
They are human lemmings, diving off the side of the cliff without giving a moment's thought to what they will be landing in.

[RobertSeattle]

29. Bill Maher nailed it as well

Said something to the effect that teabaggers should ask themselves, why are the Teabaggers and the agenda of Multi-Billionaires in synch?

[Scurrilous]

30. K & R

:thumbsup:

[defendandprotect]

31. T-baggers are the GOPs/Brown Shirts ... if they new what's going on they would be for hire by KOCH !

[rhett o rick]

33. Tea baggers are the brown shirts. and within the next two years they will be squashed by the SS.

I figure that by 2012, the Republican "regulars" will call out KKKarl Rove and his SS troops to clean up the TeaBagging brown shirts. Then the regular Republicans, like Jeb Bush, will ride in on their white horses and be welcomed by the American people to save the day.

[defendandprotect]

39. Glad you understood my garbled message ... tried to edit but too late!!

Well, they've been playing the RELIGION/Bible card for all it's worth for 30 years

or more -- the PATRIOT card -- the WARMONGERING --

They're on schedule, all right!!

Except I don't consider Jeb Bush or any Bush a "regular" anything --

they are frightening people!!

:)

[Frisbee]

32. If that doesn't hit the nail on the head, what does! eom

[Recursion]

34. Well, but *NONE* of those situations were laissez-faire hands-off government

In all three of those cases, a government entity was actually enabling the corporation in question.

I know teabaggers aren't entirely liberatrians, but the actual libertarians I know keep making that point: none of these could have happened if government were not powerful and ubiquitous enough to help one corporation or industry over another.

[RaleighNCDUer]

38. So you contend that the problems caused by the regulatory systems not

doing their jobs would not have happened if there were no regulatory systems.

Got it.

:eyes:

[Recursion]

40. No, I do not. Next question? (nt)

[RaleighNCDUer]

41. Then what, pray, are you talking about?

"*NONE* of those situations were laissez-faire hands-off government"

- IOW, there WERE government agencies which had oversight.

"In all three of those cases, a government entity was actually enabling the corporation in question."

- IOW, those agencies were not doing their jobs.

"none of these could have happened if government were not powerful and ubiquitous enough to help one corporation or industry over another."

- IOW, the agencies are too powerful and prone to corruption; therefore, they should be weaker and smaller, i.e., reduce government oversight.

Your words, not mine.

Typical libertarian answer. Bullshit, but typical.

[Recursion]

42. Whatever

This is not the gilded age. The problem is not "government is not strong enough" but rather "government is too captured by the groups it is supposed to be regulating". If I thought government could not be de-captured, I would be a libertarian. I don't, so I'm not. But I resist the notion that "more" vs. "less" government is the problem.

[RaleighNCDUer]

44. Let me clue you in - if you believe less government is better government

you ARE a libertarian.

[Recursion]

47. Yes, people who believe that are libertarian. I know that.

What's your point?

[RaleighNCDUer]

48. So in one breath you advocate libertarian philosphy and in the next

you deny being a libertarian.

That does not necessarily make you a libertarian, of course. Contrarian might be more apt.

[Recursion]

53. Does "mention" now mean "advocate"?

Geez

[timtom]

35. Perfect presentation!!

Thanks.

[cbgb2112]

36. This can go further back....

...to the savings and loan scandals.

[usaf-vet]

37. you can't fix stupid.

The newly elected republicans are tripping all over each other in an all out reversal of their election promises. Rand Paul now is ok with earmarks and long as they are reviewed in the open. Apparently they must be cheaper if they are done in open meetings. So if it cost 100 million to build a new fighter jet behind closed doors. Can we build the same fighter jet for say 10 million if the earmark is pass in the open?

This must be part of the republican deficit reduction plan that they are not talking about. Taking the earmarks as long as they are passed in the open. Apparently though some magic accounting and witchcraft the costs go down and the deficit is lowered. Saving the country at the same time they continue to bring home the pork.

The teabaggers have been lie to and used. When, if ever, will they realize it. Sadly, probably never as long as the sports channel is up and running and Palin's new reality show keeps showing them their adored Sarah playing in the snow and talking about them their freedoms.

Stupid, stupid people.

[texastoast]

45. Oh, how they have been used

Indeed.

And welcome to DU!!

:toast:

[Sherman A1]

43. Precisely

:toast:

[valerief]

46. +666 trillion. nt

[SpiralHawk]

49. Spot on

Poor pathetic RepubliBaggers, duped by RepubliCorps Fox propaganda network, voting against their own interests...

Kinda pathetic...

[HughMoran]

50. Right on target.

[Overseas]

51. Brilliant! /nt