My top five political cartoon picks for the week, first by Lisa Benson at GoComics.com…
by Michael Ramirez at Townhall.com…
by Bob Gorrell at Townhall.com…
by Dana Summers at Townhall.com…
by Chip Bok at Townhall.com…
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The first one is stupid – two democrats voted against – and 60 votes were needed because of senate rules.
Part of me wonders if the administration wanted the whole package to fail – will be interesting to see how individual senators vote on the smaller components.
Correction Ex-RINO. The Democrats were against the president’s ‘jobs bill’ too. In order to get Democratic support for any bill, the Democrats first held the bill up for several weeks and amended the presidents plan to include more tax increases prior to voting on it. Harry Reid and the Democrats never have and never intend to even bring the president’s version of stimulus 2 up for a vote.
Ex-RINO said: “Part of me wonders if the administration wanted the whole package to fail –”
Ex-RINO, you are actualy right about that one. Obama wanted his bill to be voted on and fail so that he could use blaming congress for the economy problems as part of his re-elction campaign.
The cartoon with Oblamea writing on the chalkboard is especially funny.
Congress approval rating is at 13% – and that is before they’ll be forced to vote on some provisions that are statistically popular.
Democrats control the Senate. How are repubs still blamed for not passing the jobs bill? Again, DEMS CONTROL THE SENATE!!!!! Nuff said.
Obama isn’t interested in working with Repubs. Dems have even come forward saying that Obama doesn’t want to forge any relationships on Capitol hill and just wants his way or the highway. Dems haven’t been able to push through because they don’t know how to work with Repubs thanks to Obama’s leadership.
Sydney -
Umm, because you need 60 votes on most measures these days – so control only matters if you have 60 seats.
I wouldn’t want to work with the GOP either – they’ve stated since early on that their main goal is to defeat Obama. I think they care very little about the short term health of the economy or country, as long as they get the white house back. You can continue to hammer Obama for it – but look at the latest approval ratings. Obama is certainly not rocking it at around 40% – congress is as 13%. 13%!
Ex:
Just a little reminder here: The Dems controlled the House AND Senate (with 60 votes) AND the executive branch for two years. Enough with the crocodile tears. They had their chance and they blew it. Even when they had complete control of the process they still could not get the economy rolling, so now the media and the Dems try to blame their present failures on the Repubs—the public is not buying it!
Er… EGV, as much as I despise purely political topics, I should add: you do know that congressional approval ratings have been roughly that low for years, including the years when Democrats dominated both chambers (including a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate… your “60 votes” to which you alluded to Sydney, earlier), do you not? I’d hate for you to be fooled into trying to use this poll result as any sort of commentary exclusively against the GOP, after all…
http://www.gallup.com/poll/108856/congressional-approval-hits-recordlow-14.aspx
Congress, to speak plainly, has sucked, for many decades.
As rabidly proabortion as Obama is, I applaud McConnel’s naming his 1st priority is defeating him. As it should be.
Whoops… I pasted the wrong link, above! My apologies…
http://www.gallup.com/poll/145238/congress-job-approval-rating-worst-gallup-history.aspx
Paladin – I very much acknowledge that – and in 2010, it got a lot of folks out of jobs they have had a long time, and it will do the same in 2012.
Jerry – the conversation was regarding recent legislation – I hope in the future you read through the posts first. Thanks.
Ex:
“In the future…” Actually I have read your posts. Have you changed your allegiance? No. My response is in context to dozens of your posts reflecting disdain and contempt for Repubs.
Jerry -
Two things – your comment really only makes sense in relation to my comment on this thread – I can’t recall many conversations, if any, regarding the general economy as a whole. I blame both parties for their inability to work together, get anything done, and their lack of ability to give consumers and business folks anything to be confident about.
Your last statement (of your first post towards me) is inaccurate though – the public is buying it. Again, the sentiment out there is moving more and move anti-incumbent. It doesn’t matter the party, just matters that the person has been in power:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/more-voters-begin-blame-obama-struggling-economy-145038556.html
One clarification – by “the public is buying it” – what I mean is, as evidenced by the post, people still put a lot of blame on Bush for this mess we’re in.
I think it is hard to put blame on a singular President – when you can guess how the stock market does based on the European markets, it is clear that the problem is bigger than just our country.
Obama was handed a country ready for change and healing, yet he’s catapulted us into an era more divisive than Bush’s years. House Republicans sent jobs legislation to the Senate in the Spring, only to have the Dems kill it on arrival. And now the Lightworker has the chutzpah to demagogue the idea that he hasn’t seen anything from the Republicans, that they don’t care.
What. An. Ass.
Rasqual – about five minutes into his presidency, the right’s goal was to make this President fail – Limbaugh declared it right away, and the last few years has been about blocking legislation and gridlock.
The jobs bill? Are you talking about patent legislation and killing the EPA? That bill? Or Ryan’s plan? Or maybe another plan to deregulate financial markets?
Regardless – I blame both parties – we have a deep rooted system where parties are in it more for themselves than for the American people.
I blame both parties – we have a deep rooted system where parties are in it more for themselves than for the American people.
Agreed, Ex-GOP. The Federal Gov’t itself has grown so large and powerful that it’s primary mission is to preserve its own influence and position. We just can’t afford that.