Cartoon for March 12, 2010
Obama wrote this one for me by channeling RFK's "If not now, when?" The answer seems obvious: when you had 60 votes in the Senate?
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13 Comments:
It's easier to blame Limbaugh/Beck/Cheney/Bush/Tea Partiers/Republicans/Conservatives/Coulter/Levin/Capitalism
The man-child president doesn't have the balls (nor the resume).
But, the president has attack dogs and policy makers that do have balls and the attack skills of some underfed, half crazed dobermans.
The sad truth is that they are attacking the wrong people and the wrong issue.
Give more people jobs and a chance to get health care through employers like the "acceptable" model provides for.
Once more people are working, the shift in health care is not more universal coverage, which amounts to catastrophic health events coverage (a big money maker for insurance companies), to a preventative model where people can go to a doctor as easily as dropping by CVS or the local library.
We need a titanic shift in how we approach health care not a titanic shift in how we pay for health care.
Man, if you only would elect me president.
Is "Capitalis" Capitalism or Capitalists? It really doesn't matter because both are pretty defective in America right now.
Obama is only as much of a man-child as the last guy (who was a failed businessman coasting on his family name until the towers fell.)
- mr. mike
Actually, we need a titanic shift in both the way we approach health care AND the way we pay for health care.
Last I checked, W at least had experience running a state for eight years. Obama's experience was what?
Plenty of cheap shots at Obama very likely from the same people who had their heads up their poop chutes during the wonderful Bush disastro-administration. With apologies to the talented and legendary Muhammad Ali, the crafty Party of No'ers do a verbal Rope-a-dope never seen before or since. I retch every time I catch the drift of No'ers interviewed on NPR. What a bunch of fucking whiners! They want everything to come without a cost, good jobs and opportunities at the disadvantage of people trying to escape from bad fortune and skin and language of 'color.' One lousy, fucking year, not surprisingly nearly impossible for ANY President to clean up the criminal activity and mess of the previous eight years in the face of the Hurricane of "NO" in Congress. The Party of "No'ers" WILL eat their own babies and turn in their mothers and grandparents to Homeland Security. Bah!
Actually, we need a titanic shift in both the way we approach health care AND the way we pay for health care.
Actually we need a federal government that does only what is specified in the constitution
A) W's experience was running a state into the ground. Not exactly stellar qualifications.
B) The federal government providing health care is within the constitution, if it is interpreted properly.
Actually we need a federal government that does only what is specified in the constitution.
The Constitution is mostly a prescriptive document that speaks only to a relatively few things the Government cannot do; universal health care is less troubling to the Constitution than a standing army (which many of the framers hated the idea of).
Last I checked, W at least had experience running a state for eight years. Obama's experience was what?
Bush didn’t run a state for eight years. He drove it into the ground. Where the fuck were you? He pushed the dropout rate for high school up to 50% and then had his Department of Ed. leadership begin a massive campaign of fraud to cover it up. Then he used that “success” as the basis for NCLB. This is how he acted with any aspect of government. Like Molly Ivins said, his federal career was nothing more than a recapitulation of his behavior in Texas.
Experience in doing evil is hardly experience to cite in support of a candidate -- though I have no fucking clue why Anonymous here was defending Bush.
(And no, I don’t think the experience Obama was suggestive of him doing good either. Experience is a red herring.)
I think Ted has made the rare mistake of assigning to incompetence what really should be considered malice. Glen Greenwald's piece in Salon on Friday I think is closer to the truth of matters on health care
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/12/democrats/index.html
All indications are that Obama doesn't really want a robust health care bill.
Ted - I know you like to criticize, and you're a master of gallows humor. But consider - for the sake of real hope (not Obama BS) - please consider making a cartoon about this:
http://www.indypendent.org/2010/03/11/hope-for-haiti/
I hope you all take the time to read this inspirational story, featuring a country that takes healthcare seriously.
B) The federal government providing health care is within the constitution, if it is interpreted properly.
Really? Where?
The Constitution is mostly a prescriptive document that speaks only to a relatively few things the Government cannot do
You are wrong. The Constitution is very specific in the few things the federal government can do. the rest is left to the states.
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