Well, I’m certainly convinced by this one story that the entirety of Obamacare is a bad idea. I mean, it’s not like there are stories of HMOs and insurance companies denying life-saving procedures to patients, right? Right?
And, just to make sure I’m understanding this, Summers is upset because the government will NOT intervene, yes? They’re angry about the government not exerting enough influence?
I’ve asked before if Obama really understands how he comes across a lot of the time. With his administration defined by trying to achieve some Grand Bipartisan Bargain, I get the feeling he’s at least a little naive about what people think about him.
Not about everything. At the Correspondent’s Dinner this past weekend he joked about being a Muslim socialist, so he at least understands the most ridiculous views about him. But for over four years he’s been holding out a hand to the Republicans and had it swatted aside, again and again thinking they’ll agree to work with him this time.
But with the idea of closing Guantanamo Bay in the news again, I wonder if he doesn’t have at at least some skill manipulating perception. Check out this blog post talking about House Republicans calling for three dozens votes on Obamacare, knowing full well there’s no way the bill will get repealed, but because they can go back to their constituents and say “While in office I tried to get Obamacare repealed.”
Does Obama have the same motivation when it comes to closing Gitmo? He’s not committed to letting the innocent prisoners go, he just wants to move the whole damn thing and keep the offensively broken system in place.
But by bringing it up again he can say “I tried to close Gitmo,” which his supporters will eat up even if the details aren’t so cut and dry. And without reelection as a motivation, what is he aiming at? How his legacy is shaped?
Health care reform will prove so popular it will wipe out the dinosaur that is the GOP and usher in a new age.
A good cartoon.
Uh… wait, what? People are being arrested by the IRS?
I know there’s exaggeration and hyperbole for the purposes of satire in service of making a point, but Chuck Asay always seems to be exaggerating. It’s hard to tell if what’s he’s presenting in a cartoon is satire or what he really believes is reality.
I swear, we’re about a week away from Chuck Asay talking about FEMA concentration camps.
Why is it when Republicans are painted as not caring about a specific group (women, minorities) and their interests the response is to act as if those groups have no particular special interests?
I’m watching videos on YouTube and before one there’s a Romney/Ryan ad made up of nothing but women…
Republicans probably really are that stupid. I don’t know what the political advantage is to ignoring something that clearly generates a PR problem if they’re aware that it’s going to anyway.
That said, from less of a political perspective and more of a pedantic one, there’s too much emphasis on women in particular IMO. Some women really don’t care much about such things because they don’t think they’d need them, and lots of men care enough about their girlfriends (and/or about getting into their pants) to support such things.
I know, right? I mean, they only make up half the world’s population, but they think that entitles them to something more than 77% of a man’s salary for doing the same job, or that they shouldn’t be harassed in a million ways each day for their appearance, their willingness to have sex, their unwillingness to have sex, and their desire to have control over their own bodies and destinies.
Women, amirite?
Fuck you.
Republican slashing of safety net and education spending across the board has, in this case, killed this family’s grandmother and rendered their son incapable of understanding basic mathematical principles. Only the increase in welfare dollars that the Obama administration has provided is what’s motivating him to teach himself in order to help provide for his family. A good cartoon.
And while we’re at it can we get that woman some health care? THE HUMAN SPINE SHOULD NOT BE MAINTAINED LIKE THAT!
Also,Conservatives live in a fantasy land where things they fear are literal monsters they can get rid of with mindless violence.
A good cartoon.
Romney wants to destroy the very same creature he created. Either he was wrong then or he is wrong now, and so perhaps the decision of whether or not to destroy it should be left to those with clearer judgement on this. A good cartoon.
- Submitted by wellthereitisthen
I myself would add, “When they have nothing better to respond with, Republicans always pull out their Raygun and start blasting away. AGC.”Here’s an apolitical point of craft: why draw a blob with OBAMACARE written on it and a spaceman with ROMNEY written on him when you could draw like, a monstrous Obama in a doctor outfit eating old people and ripping out wallstreet bank vaults and throwing the money at heroin addicts, and make the spaceman actually look like Romney? Anything to avoid having to put giant labels on the subjects of your cartoons. I know there’s a tradition of labeling things in political cartoons, but be honest, that is a tradition of terribleness.
Because that sounds like actual work.
