Stanek Sunday funnies 6-15-14
Happy Father’s Day! Here were my top five eight (lots going on) favorite political cartoons this week. Be sure to vote for your fav in the the poll at the bottom of this post!
by Robert Ariail at Townhall.com…
by Steve Kelley at Townhall.com…
a twofer by Eric Allie at Townhall.com…
by Glenn McCoy at Townhall.com…
by Dana Summers at Townhall.com…
by Chip Bok at Townhall.com…
by Gary Varvel at Townhall.com…
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Jun.15, 2014 8:38 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Love number one.
Love that the tea party is alive and well.
Love that the tea party is driving the GOP farther to the right.
Love that the nation as a whole does not like the tea party, and does not like the policies.
Love that the continued battle almost ensures Democrats in the white house for a long, long time.
Time for a big push to turn Texas blue so that I can officially go to bed early every election night!
They’re all really good.
I love ‘deluded Obama’ #7, where he’s chanting happy thoughts on a golf cart while the country and the world is in extreme crisis.
Totally clueless.
EGV,
LOLLLL. Be very careful what you wish for. When the gods want to punish mortals, they give us what we ask for….
I’m voting for #5 this week.
Be careful what you wish for, Ex-GOP. You may want to believe that the whole country hate the TEA Party as much as the Democratic base does. But some big Democrats may learn the hard way, like Eric Cantor did — political contests are not about ideology.
All the winner needs is a few percentage points from those people in the middle who just want a representative who knows us and listens to us.
Americans hope for more success stories like our own Gov. Walker in Wisconsin: Apply fiscal reform, survive a Big Whine attack from Democrats, pay off our debts, restore a fiscal surplus, and everyone gets big property tax refunds. Now the “Help Wanted” signs are back and the cranes are in the air again.
Now that people know it can be done, they are looking for leaders to do more of it.
Ha – except in Wisconsin we lag in employment vs everyone else in the Midwest, we have a structural deficit, and my property taxes went up again last year because our school funding lags without referendums.
If we ignore numbers, Walker is a great choice again for governor. If we look at numbers, I don’t know how rational people can argue that he’s done a good job.
Ex-RINO,
if your property taxes went up, it wasn’t cause of Walker. Walker returned the state surplus to tax-payers in the form of a property tax reduction. If your property taxes went up then your county and your local board must be loaded with unionistas. Only an idiot would blame Walker.
” in Wisconsin we lag in employment vs everyone else in the Midwest”
Ex-RINO, are we lagging behind midwest states like Illinois that are suffering from decades of Democrats being in control?
truth –
I put why my property taxes went up – school funding is lagging – our city passed a referendum. It would have gone down something like $20 if it wasn’t for that. I could have taken a couple of kids to McDonalds.
On your second question – Wisconsin is 9th out of 10 Midwestern states since Walker took office. We’re also in the bottom half of the country in growth. Nowhere near the 250K jobs he wants to be judged on.
Some have oddly claimed that the recall hurt numbers – but even since then, Wisconsin has grown at barely 1% compared with almost 2% for the nation – so we’re in the bottom half there there as well.
First you said Wisconsin lags ‘everybody’ else in the Midwest in job growth. Now you say Wisconsin is 9 out of 10. And I have seen you use numbers that are so ‘fudged’ they might as well come from “Little Debbie’s”. I am sure you found a link somewhere that manipulates numbers but the proof is in the pudding. Did you here Amazon is opening a new warehouse and distribution center in Kenosha?
Some include Nebraska and South Dakota in the midwestern state category and in general the Midwest economies are doing better than most. Unless you happen to be from one of the liberal midwest states like Minnesota or Illinois that tend to go Democratic. Hmmmm. Link to where you are pulling your data from please..
Wisconsin lags both Minnesota and Michigan since Walker took office.
Do not read the news? Have you not seen this?
Ex-RINO, You said “in Wisconsin we lag in employment against everyone else in the Midwest.” Link to where are you getting your data from.
Numerous links within this article to show the root information – easy to follow:
http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/mike_ivey/wisconsin-ninth-among-midwestern-states-in-job-growth-under-walker/article_59f4cfee-aee1-11e3-8ef3-0019bb2963f4.html
Notice that 8 out of the top 10 in job growth for 2013 are led by GOP Governors:
#1 – Utah – GOP Gov.
#2 – Nevada – GOP Gov.
#3 – Hawaii – Democrat Gov.
#4 – South Carolina GOP Gov
#5 – Colorado – Democrat Gov.
#6 – Idaho – GOP Gov.
#7 – Florida GOP Gov.
#8 – Texas GOP Gov.
#9 – North Carolina GOP Gov.
#10 – Arizona – GOP Gov
Tough to draw a lot of conclusions off that truth – a lot of those states were harder hit during the recession and thus had a lot of room to grow.
For instance, New Hampshire and Vermont both are not on that list. They have unemployment rates of 4.4 and 3.8. They have high rates of college grads and thus statistically, didn’t fall apart as bad as other states.
Wisconsin’s best comparable is Minnesota, which has a Dem governor. They’ve grown faster and have lower unemployment.
We really just need to do what Walker told us to do – which is judge him by his 250K jobs promise.
Go Big RED!
Love Nebraska!
I hope that is who you are referring to Prax.
‘tough to draw a lot of conclusions off that truth’
lol. You have no trouble twisting numbers to draw conclusions that support your narratives though. Those unemployment numbers you reference are fraudulent because they do not take into account all the people who ran out of unemployment benefits and/or gave up on finding a job and are now on welfare. There are fewer people in the workforce today then when Obama took office.
truth – the same would be in the comparison group – what I mean is, the unemployed numbers are the same methodology for all states, so your argument only holds water if you are arguing some states have more people who have dropped from the labor pool, which you didn’t make the argument for.
Interactive numbers of Walker’s lack of growth. http://lacrossetribune.com/news/state-and-regional/interactive-data-job-growth-under-scott-walker/html_ba48d666-43fa-5158-bb3f-9a0dfcb48b73.html
Again, you might simply like him – just don’t claim he’s done a great job in comparison to our peer states, or the bar he wants us to judge him by.
If the liberals in Madison would have let the mining operation start in Northern Wisconsin it could have brought thousands of jobs in mining and distribution and even jobs for the Caterpillar plant in Milwaukee. Walker has his numbers despite the liberals. Same is true nationwide. Rather than approve the Keystone pipeline the liberal base is siding with fringe extremists who would rather buy oil abroad and fund the lunatics in the MidEast by buying their oil and destroy the US economy by refusing to build a pipeline.
You and Obama remind me of the Emperor without any clothes.
truth –
A couple of facts.
It would have brought less than a thousand jobs – and the deciding vote was a Republican.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogebic_Taconite
Walker doesn’t have his numbers – that’s kind of the point. Nobody is claiming he has even close to the 250K. What do you mean, he has the numbers? He doesn’t have the numbers. You just can’t make up numbers.
What in the world does the Keystone pipeline have to do with Scott Walker and Wisconsin? The route goes way west of here.
Drinking again?
Wondering what Walker’s internal polls are showing – he seems pretty nervous – has gone very negative lately.
I’d ask you the poll numbers, but you’d probably make them up. Seems to be your thing lately!
Scott Walker and conservatives political groups in Wisconsin have been the targets of secret investigations and pre-dawn raids from the Wisconsin DA for years and the witch-hunt is finally over. The DA is being sued and will end up with criminal and civil charges being brought against him. The left (and obviously you) see Walker as target#1 and that also means open-season on conservative political action groups.
The same type of thing is going on nationally with the IRS being used to stifle conservative opposition.
This is dirty Chicago-style politics on display. I am glad to say that they are not getting away with it in Wisconsin but I am afraid to say that Obama and the IRS are going to get away with it as long as Obama is president and he has a lap-dog Attorney General who is on board with using our government agencies to advance partisan political power within our government.
You can choose to deny it but if you do then you are just picking a fight with half of the citizens in our nation and there will be a day of reckoning.
I voted for Walker. He’s turned out to be a failure. We are falling behind other states in the nation. His turning away of both light rail and Medicaid funding took millions out of the state that would have created tons of jobs – a multitude more than the mine up in Northern Wisconsin.
You can yell about scandals, targeting, whatever – the simple fact of the matter is his policies have not worked, and those who vote for him are simply saying they don’t care about results -which is sad to me.
He said to judge him on 250,000 jobs. Are we saying we shouldn’t do that anymore?
Pro-life people are pro-life because they have a tendency towards kindness and compassion for others. But we need to stop treating pro-aborts as if we expect them to have any scruples. After all; anybody who thinks it is a good idea to kill babies in the womb is obviously void of kindness and compassion.
The light rail money and the Medicaid money would have been long-term deficits for our state.
Let me ask you something. Do you agree that Wisconsin as a state was on a path towards billion dollar deficits when Gov. Walker took over?
We have a structural deficit now. How do you get mad that those things might have brought a structural deficit, but you’re excited about tax cuts that have given us a structural deficit?
I would technically disagree with your second statement. We weren’t on a path – we were already there. Doyle had to tackle a 5.9 billion after the economy collapse for the 2009-2011 cycle. It was then 2.6 billion for 20111-2013. We still have a structural deficit – though not as big.
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2014/mar/10/we-are-wisconsin/gov-scott-walker-increasing-state-deficit-cutting-/
I think your 12:43 post was on the wrong thread – not sure.
“You can yell about scandals, targeting, whatever”
So the District Attorney of our state abuses his position to conduct secret politically motivated raids on the conservative citizens of our state and the only response it gets out if you is “whatever”? You should move to Chicago.
truth – what I mean is, there’s articles about Walker and the Club for Growth – there’s targeting. I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of truth and fiction on both sides.
I don’t care about any of that, and wouldn’t base my vote on any of that. I’ve got to base my vote on what Walker told us to judge him on – 250,000 jobs. We’re not close, and we’re falling farther behind. It’s time to pull the plug on this failed experiment.
“I think your 12:43 post was on the wrong thread – not sure.” “I don’t care about any of that” ” I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of truth and fiction on both sides.”
No, that post had to do with expecting people like you to say anything more than “whatever” when they are told our District Attorney office is so policized that they conduct politically motivated pre-dawn raids on people and take things from their homes and threaten them and tell them that they have no right to legal representation regarding the raid.
Politics surpasses your conscience’s ability to properly function.
Oh. It was a weird post – out of context.
Anyway, I’m not convinced yet on Burke – I haven’t read much of her economic policy thoughts – but I think we’ve seen pretty clearly that Walker has been a bit of a train wreck. And good to see the polls recognizing that. He’ll have the cash behind him, so I think he’s got a good shot at winning – but it will be from an ignorant electorate swayed more by advertisements than facts.
Still nothing more to say about the DA scandal? I repeat:
Politics surpasses your conscience’s ability to properly function.
I honestly haven’t read about it at all.
Is it related to the Wisconsin Club for Growth scandal? I’ve read one article on that one – that’s it.
Again, I ignore most of that stuff unless it becomes an actual conviction.
I will say, I wouldn’t vote for Walker simply because it seems like he’s being targeting in some scandal.
He told us to judge him by his job creation – I’m just doing what he told me to do truth.
“Again, I ignore most of that stuff”
To see what I just posted and not think it is worth investigating further says who you are as a person. I told you about a DA who is so political that he raids law-abiding citizens homes and their confiscates their possessions and tells them they are not allowed to get legal representation or even speak with anybody regarding the raid. And your response is that you ignore that stuff. The fact that you choose to ignore it speaks volumes about you as a person.
Yawn
Again truth – why are you getting so caught up in claims made by the two parties? We’ll see how these scandals play out – who knows what is right or wrong at this point – we’ll see.
This has got to be lesson 101 in getting your behind kicked in a debate, so trying to find any cheap thing to throw at the opposition.
Walker’s record is a mess – the things you threw out were bunk – numbers were easily laid out – so you reach for the tabloid section? That’s low – even for you man. Come on – be better than that. I’m pleading you.
“I hope that is who you are referring to Prax.”
Why?
Prax,
Progressives seek out the condonation of other people in everything. That ‘condonation’ mindset is how they validate everything.
How do you think it should play out Ex-RINO? The DA has already been slapped down by first a state and then a federal judge. He was told to drop the investigation entirely and return and properties that were taken during the raids back to their owners and that the DA must destroy any copies of documents that the DA had seized during the raids.
A federal judge also just slapped down the DA again by refusing to uphold the DA’s request for dismissal of a suit brought against the DA by some of the people that were raided. The judge reason for not dismissing was because the plaintiff’s suit against the DA is likely to succeed.
I can see how it is playing out. While you are yawning justice is being served on the people whose behaviours you condone. I know how hard that is for a Progressive Statist like you so if yawning helps, then go ahead and yawn. Not that I condone you yawning about it but I suppose it is a better choice than upping your dose of Statist Progressive Kool-Aid
Prax –
Because some people call other teams ‘Big Red’. I like Nebraska – ‘Big Red’. Just wasn’t sure if you were referring to them.
truth
I think the da, Walker, and leaders for the WI Club for Growth should all be sent to siberia to live out their days.
“Because some people call other teams ‘Big Red’.”
Oh I get it.
And some people chew a gum called Big Red too! And some tall guys with red hair are called Big Red!
Anyway, I loved Bucky Badger when he was sad and blue and I continue to love him the more he shows his true color! Bucky doesn’t run from bullies but he is a fan of the walkers.
Well, that is the closest you have come to admitting the DA is abusing his office to advance the DemocRAT political agenda’s. But why would you punish the abused along the abuser?
I have no doubts that Walker, the DA, and Club for Growth are all engaging in some level of ethical behavior.
As stated earlier – I don’t really care until convictions come down. All sorts of accusations are thrown around all the time. I am skeptical of all of them, and unsurprised by none of them.
At the end of the figurative day, this case has ZERO impact on my voting decision, and I would question the sanity of people who say it influences their vote.
Question for you – do you believe we should judge Walker by what he says we should judge him by? Or should we ignore him?
One change to the above…’unethical’ is what I meant to type.
Ya, what the heck. Break down the doors at dawn.
I question the sanity of anyone who turns a blind eye to government officials turning people’s lives upside down based on the fact that they suspect those folks just might be, might probably be, could be, are most likely to be, know someone who is or has been, and/or might think of becoming engaged in unethical behavior.
Welcome to Amerika.
I have no doubts that Ex-GOP is involved in illegal behaviors.
Praxedes, in the eyes of a Progressive Statist; if they never get convicted of abusing someone then the abuse of those people is not a crime. Like the guy Hillary helped get off. In Hillary’s eye he never abused that 13 year old girl because she was able to get the rapist off on a technicality. That is why she is able to joke about it.
I hear you, ts. I can relate more than you know.
This whole thread would be comical if this wasn’t how you two actually seem to think. Since I’m getting more and more convinced that you guys are real people, I guess I need to respond.
First off, let’s recap the conversation.
Truth wants to dive into questions on the Wisconsin economy. He’s not aware of our terrible job growth. Seemingly not aware of the 250K jobs promise that has been a disaster. Overstates and mis-states information concerning a mine, and then ignores two other opportunities that could have brought lots of jobs to the state.
So then, defeated, truth turns to the DA scandal, something unrelated to Walker and if somebody would vote for him (if you either of you want to take a stab at why the issue should make somebody less or more likely to vote for Walker, I’d love to hear it).
I state that there are all sorts of accusations out there – let them play out – again, it isn’t on subject – so who cares (for the purposes of this post).
Now Prax jumps in with a cute little post, putting a “K” in America, because OBVIOUSLY the more American thing to do is to jump to conclusions outside the established legal due process of the law. So I repeat, I’m a bad American because I dig the constitution and due process – and Prax is then a good American because he/she rushes to judgment and seemingly believes everything he/she reads in what I’m sure is outstanding media outlets.
So as a recap – I can’t find anybody who can say anything good about anything that Scott Walker told us to judge him by – other than a mine that would have added 700 jobs that was squashed by a Republican – but I’m a bad American because I don’t want to join a lynch mob fueled by right wing political entertainment sites.
Seriously – you two are actual human beings that think this way – or are you trolls just looking to score some points?
Ex-Rino, you should really find someone to talk to about your anger issues.
Prax – no anger issues – I just need to find a mental sparring partner on some of these issues…keep finding myself being sucked into the shallow end of the pool. I miss Paladin.
“Truth wants to dive into questions on the Wisconsin economy ” finding myself being sucked into the shallow end”
There was not a single cartoon reference to Scott Walker in the entire list and yet your narrow-mindedness kept you from engaging in any conversation other than your pre-disposed narrative. Paladin couldn’t help you with that. The best advice would be to Lay off the Kool-Aid and maybe you could break out of your shallow-mindedness.
truth –
I’ll lay off the kool-aid, and you dial up your ADHD medication. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve asked you a direct question that you’ve completely ignored, I’d have a lot of cash at this point. A lot of cash.
You should be a politician because there isn’t an issue you can’t ignore – isn’t a question you can’t pretend you didn’t hear – and isn’t a stat you can’t twist.
And even by your numbers 28th out of 50 is not ‘terrible’. And your 700 jobs number on the mine is such BS. There would have been over 700 trucking jobs alone as a result. And last year we Wisconsin was 44th in job creation and Walker has only been in office three years. To say going from 44th to 28th is a ‘failed’ experiment is extreme.
All but one of our peer states are growing fast than us. That’s a problem.
And Walker told us to judge him by his promise. Should we not do that?
Walker has only had three years and the DemocRATs have done everything from flee the state to having select Madison judge put Act10 on hold to having a recall election to try and make Scott Walker fail. I think the people of Wisconsin will hold Scott Walker accountable but unlike you they do not see a failed experiment. They see a state on the move up and would like to move forward with Scott Walker’s agenda because as a state we have not reached Walker’s goal of 250k jobs added but we people see we are moving in the right direct.
Hopefully in his next term Walker will be able to expand school choice and wrestle control of our children’s education away from the teacher’s unions and place it in control of parents.
Ex-RINO, You should move to Chicago. They run government there the way you like it run.
truth –
So you seem to be arguing that it was foolish for Walker to make that promise. I can accept that.
I don’t think he has an excuse – the GOP had control of all branches of government.
My biggest complaints on Walker two twofold:
1) The economy needed the focus in WI, and Walker focused too much on other issues, and in part because of that, our economy is lagging similar states.
2) I think he’s got more of an eye on a future Federal Government run than he does on our own state. He’s okay hurting Wisconsin if it helps his conservative credentials. Again, disappointing.
I think he’ll win because he has the money behind him – but I think it’s going to be much harder for him than it should be have been, and I think it’s clear that if you look at the numbers, he’s been a bad governor. I wish we could trade him for Dayton (MN).