This Modern World: The new bipartisanship

[meegbear]

There is one thing Democrats and Republicans can work together to achieve



http://www.salon.com/entertainment/comics/this_modern_world/2010/11/30/this_modern_world

[Solly Mack]

1. Bazinga

[de novo]

2. He nailed it, as per usual. The Tepid Moderate.

[Joe Bacon]

80. What's missing is the Moderate's total surrender to the Republicans

On issue after issue, Obama has given the Republicans what they demand. Even when he gives them everything they want, they demand more. And he gives them more. On and on, I'm sick of this...

[crikkett]

90. .

:nopity:

[vi5]

3. This would be much funnier....

If it weren't 100% the sad, pathetic, miserable truth as to how things are playing out.

The only thing I remain on the fence on is if it's because of a calculating complicity or if it is 100% naivete bordering on stupidity. Neither one filles me with much comfort.

[John Q. Citizen]

31. It won't make you laugh if it isn't true. That toon made me laugh.

[Hydra]

33. Bush had the excuse of looking stupid

Some of us knew better, but stupid/naive is always more comforting than deliberate evil.

Do we think our Dems are stupid and/or weak? I doubt it- you don't win office by being so.

[awoke_in_2003]

50. My money is on complicity. nt

[Enthusiast]

91. Mine too.

I can't escape that conclusion no matter how hard I try. Of course I could abandon objectivity entirely, as the Republicans do.

[barbtries]

62. i have a third option

and it's kinda crazy. :tinfoilhat: maybe he is just trying to stay alive. i mean literally.

[TheMadMonk]

75. My early thoughts were it's not HIS life he fears for. Now?

With another couple of years to get my head around the way politics works over there, my suspicions are that he was almost certainly on the "payroll" when he made his bid. AND a perhaps even on the "payroll" from day one in politics. The speed of his rise from soup kitchen volunteer to POTUS certainly suggests he had some "help" from somewhere.

I suspect this pattern holds for most so called left wing polititians as much as for the right. You just don't get to be a power player in America without the approval of the Powers That Be.


We often make fun of the the right. And guess what? We're fucking fools for doing so. The right wing of today occupies nutjob territory to leave room for the business friendly New Left to move in. You're encouraged to take notice of the idiots at the extreme right, because it makes your alternate choice look at least a little less odious.

The American votors have been played for fools, and fools they have been falling over each other to vote for: Charisma; Promisses to keep various boogie men (illegals, gays, abortionists, unionists, terrorists, etc.) at bay; Promises to keep "the undeserving's" filthy mitts off Good American Taxpayer's money.

You cheerfully vote to keep your prisons so full of (relatively) harmless druggies that there is no room for the white collar criminals who make paupers of credulous fools; so little room that those who make a more traditional career in crime rarely do more than an absolute minimum of the time awarded them as punishment.

All it takes to convince a great many Americans to vote harm upon on their own heads is to convince them that greater harm will befall some other group they have been convinced to particularly despise.

You have a labour system so out of touch with reality that airline pilots holding hundreds of lives in their hands every day qualify for depression era sustenance assistance. How long before AQ finds one with a sick kid and offers him his child's life in exchange for his own and 200 others.

Your whole national philosophy holds that the best impression to leave is bootprints on the scalps of others.

[Blecht]

79. This is what happens

when you don't get your news from American media -- you figure out what's going on!

Excellent post.

[tomp]

85. agreed. nt

[Enthusiast]

92. Thank you for sharing

your impressions. Great post. I agree with you completely.

[tomp]

84. it's complicity. that is the game. nt

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Perfect....and yet....

Thank you sir. May I have another?

[MannyGoldstein]

5. That's really not fair

I think the Republicans are people we can do business with. They are skittish of Democrats because we've been so hyper-partisan to them over the years, but I think that recent steps - such as implementing the Simpson and Bowles recommendation of a freeze on federal salaries - will allow the Republicans to begin to trust us again. The healing process will take time, but it can succeed if we Democrats resolve to work hard enough.

[leveymg]

6. That's very dry. Like drinking straight vermouth.

:spray:

[Vickers]

13. Mojave vermouth.

:P

[awoke_in_2003]

52. vermouth...

with a couple tablespoons of dessicant

[obxhead]

7. You are 100% correct

Dems can learn to work together and be trusted by Republicans again.

It will be a rapid process too. All we have to do is everything they ask. You know, bipartisanship.

[prodigals0n]

8. For the love of God, Manny, you CANNOT be serious

"That's really not fair
Posted by MannyGoldstein

I think the Republicans are people we can do business with. They are skittish of Democrats because we've been so hyper-partisan to them over the years, but I think that recent steps - such as implementing the Simpson and Bowles recommendation of a freeze on federal salaries - will allow the Republicans to begin to trust us again. The healing process will take time, but it can succeed if we Democrats resolve to work hard enough."

Honestly, please tell me you're joking and you forgot to include this below your comment:

:sarcasm:

[MannyGoldstein]

11. No, I've seen the light. I'm born again.

I was bitter at what I saw as Obama's absolute betrayal of working Americans who elected him. But then it struck me: he's right. I had judged the Republicans without walking a mile in their shoes.

We need to build bridges between us and the Republicans. They're people just like we are, and they feel bad about some of the things we've done to them. We need healing. Lots of healing.

[leveymg]

15. The only bridges I'm interested in building are like these over the Rhine River.

And driving several tank divisions over them.

[deutsey]

89. That's the kind of bridge I had in mind, too

:thumbsup:

[somone]

27. There can be no healing without reparations

At a minimum, a good faith gesture should be offered by Democrats to Republicans, such as a permanent extension of tax cuts for the rich and the elimination of estate tax. :sarcasm:

[whathehell]

58. How about a annihilating the democratic party?

that might be a start.:eyes:

[slay]

41. self delete

nevermind

[AnArmyVeteran]

43. Should I call 911 and have men with white coats pick you up? :)

[xxqqqzme]

57. Because the rethugs

have been so forgiving since when would that be? '92? Nope! They were pouring slime on Clinton before he was even the nominee! '94? Nope. If anything the hate was turned up that year. '96? Nope. Had to hear all the Clinton lies all over again. '98? Nope, we had impeachment on the table. 2000? Nope - stolen in Florida - appointed by SCOTUS. Obsessed w/ ABC.

Since '68 we have had 30 years of rethuglicans breaking and entering, covering up, pardoning, trickling down, destroying the middle class and education, S & L bailouts, two invasions and occupations, subversion of the Constitution and now obstruction and destruction of the pitifully little left of the middle class. Please tell me again who needs to walk in whose shoes?

[AlbertCat]

73. the things we've done to them.

I KNOW! Those horrible things we did, like

hand them the 2000 & 2004 elections
signed their war powers thingie
Ignored the out & out lie in the SOTU
refuse to sue them for libel and slander as they wrote and called us traitors, commies, Nazis, terrorists and unamerican
Let them have their Patriot Act
taking prosecuting them for torture and other war crimes off the table
Refrain from laughing ourselves silly every time they open their lying mouths


It'll be tough, but I'm sure we can make it up to them.



















:eyes:

[mikelgb]

32. Miniluv got to Manny!

[eilen]

19. You forgot your sarcasm thingies.... I hope.

[awoke_in_2003]

53. Do you watch much British comedy?...

Manny has the delivery down cold.

[eilen]

65. I do watch British comedy... I just didn't hear his accent. lol. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

66. good point...

I was like "WTF?", but then knowing who it is I figured where he was going.

[L0oniX]

21. Put the crack pipe down.

[lumberjack_jeff]

22. ROFL

+1

[bvar22]

24. I agree, Manny.

All we have to do is keep giving them everything they want, and surely sometime in the future, they will begin liking us.
Maybe after the new Austerity Measures for the Working Class & The Poor and the destruction of Social Security and Medicare, they will invite us to their next party?
We can only Hope.

[DainBramaged]

38. You cannot be serious stating that?

We have to make the Republicans trust us? We have to work harder?




:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[d_b]

39. lololol

[14thColony]

47. Yes, all that plus we commit mass suicide

That MIGHT please them enough to make allow them to reach across the aisle. And rummage through the pockets of our corpses for loose change.

[awoke_in_2003]

51. only a Brit...

could deliver those sentences so dry.

[Skittles]

60. WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MANNY

I WILL KICK YOUR GOLDSTEIN-STEALING ASS

[Chisox08]

63. Is this sacasm?

If not http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-lJZiqZaGA">They're coming to take you away

[RoccoR5955]

69. It IS in FACT QUITE fair!

RepubliCONs have NOT compromised. They act like kids, who if they don't get their own way, throw a tantrum. They will hold up anything in the Senate that is not to their liking. If you just look at the record number of filibusters that the RepubliCONs have declared in the Senate, you will find, that they DO NOT WANT TO WORK with any member of the Democratic Party. They want it their way, or the highway. No "mainstream" RepubliCON voted for healthcare. There were even provisions in the law that the RepubliCONs proposed. When they were put into the law, they STILL VOTED AGAINST IT.
We cannot do business with them, because they do not want to do business with us. Their definition of compromise, is to have things THEIR WAY. Look up compromise in your Funk and Wagnels, and you will find that the definition is pretty much the opposite of this.

Screw the RepubliCONs, before they screw us all!

[Webster Green]

78. Friggin' woodchucks.

They're everywhere! Get them off of me! Help!

Hey, wanna buy some really cheap shrimp? :smoke:

[Ganja Ninja]

87. Is that you Mr. President?

:rofl:

[Enthusiast]

93. Are you kidding me?

What universe do you inhabit? Republicans are people we can do business with? Why don't you join them? According to you Democrats need to work harder to do what Republicans want so they will start to trust us again. :crazy:

[prodigals0n]

9. DIE, liberal scum! DIE!

The tepid moderate reminds me of this Simpsons episode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrTGyGSdrtI&feature=related

Apparently many Democratic "leaders" accept that translation.

[TheUnspeakable]

10. k&r

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Ah the 'moderate centrists' begging for some love from the right

over and over again. And again. And again.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. k

[HughBeaumont]

16. K und R.

"When Jon announced his rally, he said that the national conversation is dominated by people on the right who believe Obama's a socialist, and people on the left who believe 9/11 was an inside job. But I can't name any Democratic leaders who think 9/11 was an inside job. But Republican leaders who think Obama's a socialist? All of them! McCain, Boehner, Cantor, Palin, all of them! It's now official Republican dogma, like tax cuts pay for themselves, and gay men just haven't met the right woman." - Bill Maher

[msongs]

17. Tom Tomorrow nail's Obama's leadership style lol nt

[joeybee12]

18. Exactly...knr

[Eddie Haskell]

20. The new Contract for America

Lower taxes for the rich
Lower income for the rest

[somone]

28. Much. much lower income for the rest

and the difference goes to the rich

[xchrom]

23. recommend

[Edweird]

25. Tom is giving the Dems a lot more credit than they deserve.

From where I sit it's pretty clear to me that there are 2 right wings.

[whatchamacallit]

26. Two sides of the same coin - heads the republicans win, tails the democrats lose (nt)

[frylock]

29. knr

[GrpCaptMandrake]

30. Wonder why

Tom didn't just draw the Tepid Moderate as Obama. Is he pulling his punches?

[baldguy]

34. Does the Bonner have to try to shoot Obama before he figures that they hate his guts?

[asdjrocky]

35. And yet there are people here that say we can compromise.

Really, there is.

[disillusioned73]

36. K to the R..

I love the moment of silence slide where the tepid moderates facial expresion doesn't change from the previous window... classic.

And no, the Dems are not THIS naive - I am not buying this shit anymore :dem:

[Mosaic]

37. It's all about who gets to be the brain

Democrats, who have been around a heck of lot longer, or corporatist republicans who slowly took over this country. It's like a Star Wars movie and we know who is on the dark side.

[slay]

40. Best. Toon. Ever.

Emailing to the White House NOW! Jeez it's so openly bizarre at this point surely Obama will have to act like he's in charge at some point right?

[SaveOurDemocracy]

44. Please don't call me Shirley.

;-)

[Ken Burch]

68. Farewell, Leslie Nielsen...

We need you "Now, More Than Ever"(to use that phrase, just ONCE, for somebody who actually deserves it).

[slay]

71. lol

saw on Keith last night he wanted to be eulogized with - let em RIP - then a big fart. :rofl:

[Blue Owl]

42. Let's hope B.O. is reading this

and taking it to heart!

[SaveOurDemocracy]

45. K&R

[WillyT]

46. Yep... K & R !!!

:shrug:

:kick:

[progressoid]

48. Somebody send this to every Democrat.

[ProudDad]

49. K&R

Gotta keep your sense of humor :rofl:

[jimmil]

54. Seriously...

Do some people actually think Republicans give a shit about anything the Dems have to say? Really??? Everything Republican is "ME". I have absolutely hated the Republicans since Reagan decided he can spend as much as his friends wanted.

[Eyerish]

55. K&R

Sad...but fucking true.

[Blue_Tires]

56. Tom Tomorrow gets it

[KingOfLostSouls]

59. sadly, this is many here

proclaiming obama's godliness without taking into account at every opportunity to hit them hard, he's capitulated and been weak.

all in the name of bipartisanship.

[barbtries]

61. that's just too true.

why hasn't obama wised up? he has to know. so why does he keep pretending that he doesn't know?

[Soylent Brice]

64. K&R

[Turborama]

67. K&R thanks for posting n/t

[Swamp Rat]

70. LOL! That's it in a nutshell.

:D

[Beartracks]

72. So right, and so obvious (to most). n/t

[RowdyRacer]

74. I'll say it AGAIN...

The GOP and the Dems are the equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters and the Washington Generals. The Democrats are paid very well to fill the role of hapless LOSERS, pretending to "fight" for their constituents.
Look what they did after 2008 - they were handed the Whitehouse, along with huge majorities in Congress. They could have passed any legislation that they wanted to, and told the GOP to STFU. What did they do?? Elect Pelosi and Reid as their "leaders", and proceed to tie themselves in knots, finding excuses as to why the COULDN'T make the changes that they campaigned on. All of you(us) need to wise up and stop giving money and support to these frauds. They are not going to make waves and offend their corporate bosses and risk losing their source of money. They are not going to help regular Americans. The sooner we all realize this, the sooner we can figure out how to stop this nonsense.

[Jakes Progress]

76. TT for WH Chief of Staff

God, but the last two years wouldn't have been such a nightmare with Tom instead of rahm.

Just how many times can TT nail it so well? Just how long before the WH gets a clue?

[krispos42]

77. This needs to be tattooed on the forehead of every Dem that says "bipartisanship" in earnest

Backwards, so they can read it in a mirror.

[Hugabear]

81. Bipartisanship to repukes means doing everything THEIR way

n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

82. Maybe life would be better

If Democrats just said, to HELL with Republicans and just do what they want. I mean, how different would that be?

[Greyhound]

83. K&R. Unfortunately, even two years too late, 'we' still don't get it.

When someone tries to kill you and your family, inviting them to negotiate is not a smart move. No matter how many dimensions you can imagine.
:kick: & R & :rofl:

[tomp]

86. makes the dems look stupid and not complicit.

though i LOVE tom tomorrow, i think it's the other way around.

moving on to that next step of realization is crucial, however, making fun of the superficial position of the dems can't hurt.

thinking people will ask, "are the dems REALLY that stupid?" i mean, tom nails the APPEARANCE of things, i.e., the naivete and stupidity is what the dems want you to see/think.

[democrank]

88. President Obama may not think much of his progressive base

but he`s going to continue to try to play ball with his "friends across the aisle."