Mike Luckovich

By Andy

March 2, 2006 06:55 AM | Link to this

Ummmm, actually:

Hillary Clinton ‘truly regrets’ Gandhi joke. Remarks called stereotypical, racially insensitive

ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized for joking that Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis, saying it was “a lame attempt at humor.”

That was too easy…

By Andy

March 2, 2006 06:56 AM | Link to this

I let some comments in here slide last night, out of respect, apologies to those who may consider this response a bit premature:

If I were a teacher, like, let’s say, JC, before I went and congratulated myself and my profession, I believe I would take a quick look at Georgia’s SAT scores and America’s educational standing compared to the 23 or so countries that are better than us.

The “intelligence� of the left has led to the creation of a permanent underclass in our society and it has reduced women to disposable sex objects (much to the delight of 18 year old boys.) Where our culture used to respect the elderly we now demean them. We are now raising an entire generation of children without exposure to etiquette, manners, civility but instead are enslaving them to sexual enticement and peer pressure as their measure of “success.�

I employ some of these products of our higher education system, and without exception, I am appalled at the lack of any viable education. Sure they can share experiences of drunken frat parties and lecture on the ins and outs of the victim industry, but this is not practical knowledge, despite what some of you pinkos are thinking right now.

The left has set a course of action in the United States designed to weaken us from within, both domestically and internationally. This, I grant, they are having great success at.

You, JC, are welcome to be proud of yourself.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 07:15 AM | Link to this

I know that liberals and “news” paper editors have no idea how things work, they are probably in awe over light switches and such, but anybody who has viewed the Bush Katrina briefing must ask the following questions:

A- If we are going to use the fact that Bush asked no questions as a standard of proof that they were not “ready” and were somehow responsible for the destruction, then where does Bill Clinton fit into the 9/11 chain of guilt, considering he never even held national security briefings, never mind ask questions, while in the White House.

Besides which, Bush is being briefed by experts, he is not a windbag like, let’s say Swimmer Kennedy, maybe shutting your mouth and letting other people do what they get paid for could be a good thing, no?

B- Michael Brown, from what I could see, is a highly effective leader. He controlled the meeting, setting the tone of seriousness, even emphasizing that this was a huge storm. The benefits of this meeting being held were not for some secret closed hurricane society, Brown was speaking directly to the people on the ground, both state and federal.

The people that died or injured were the ones that were not evacuated. Bush and Brown did not round up victims after this briefing, drive them to the Superdome and chain them to the seats. Trust me.

Evacuation was the sole responsibility of Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco. If they needed assistance, they are supposed to request it from FEMA. They told the FED to buzz off.

C- Watch the tape yourself. Then ask, what else do you expect Bush to do, jump in the gulf and swim out to the hurricane. (Don’t take me seriously on that last one, “news” paper editors.)

By gadem

March 2, 2006 07:27 AM | Link to this

Andy, how do you know that Clinton held no security meetings or asked questions? That sounds highly improbable and unlikely.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

March 2, 2006 07:33 AM | Link to this

Commenting on the relevant topic, funny, funny toon!

By AntiRadical

March 2, 2006 07:38 AM | Link to this

Toon mediocre at best. So the President sucked up to India to acquire trade and nuclear concessions (which he got). What was he supposed to do, take a leak on Gandhi’s crypt?

Interestingly, the Senate sailed the “Patriot Act” renewal through with almost no revision. Now that the Dems are “tough on security”, I guess it isn’t Orwellian anymore. Dems waffle more than the International House of Pancakes!

By N-GA

March 2, 2006 07:46 AM | Link to this

Good toon….definitely examines the depth of GWB’s intellect.

Maybe Letterman will do a “Gandhi-Gumby, Gumby-Gandhi” routine.

By Clare

March 2, 2006 07:53 AM | Link to this

I laughed out loud when I saw this! Prior commentator seems not to realize this cartoon simply lampoons Bush’s ignorance. Maybe he doesn’t know who “Gumby” is.

By finch

March 2, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

The revised Patriot Act includes some changes that are anything but cosmetic:

- Give recipients of court-approved subpoenas for information in terrorist investigations the right to challenge a requirement that they refrain from telling anyone.

- Eliminate a requirement that an individual provide the FBI with the name of a lawyer consulted about a National Security Letter, a demand for records issued by investigators.

In otherwords, if Big Brother is spying on you, at least you’ll know, and you’ll be allowed to tell other people (lawyers) so you can defend yourself. This is important.

Oh, and there’s this:

- Clarify that most libraries are not subject to demands in those letters for information about suspected terrorists.

I never wanted the government to know that I’d checked out “Lady Chatterly’s Lover” anyways….

By Edd Williams

March 2, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

This is really low, stupid and in very bad taste. But that’s normal for a no-talent pseudo-intellectual neo-com.

By Scooter

March 2, 2006 08:12 AM | Link to this

Toon is so so. When I was a kid and bought my copy of “The Anarchist Cookbook” I just assumed the government was watching and knew. Or when I bought my copy of The “Marijuana Growers Guide”.

But when I became a man, I put away childish things and they have no reason to watch me now.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 08:12 AM | Link to this

gadem: That is straight from the mouths of Sandy Berger and Richarde Clark. Bush does NSA briefings daily, Clinton did like 2 of them in all of 2000.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 08:22 AM | Link to this

Clare,

I think the point of the cartoon is that Bush is not supposed to know who Ghandi is. Sheeeeesh. I’d hate to see you “analyze” a novel or poem in an English Lit class.

N-GA,

Here’s a little friendly advice. Listen carefully: Do NOT give up your day job.

By MS

March 2, 2006 08:45 AM | Link to this

HA HA HA Oh I get it Bush is stupid! HA HA that is just so funny and original. I don’t know how Luckovich keeps coming up with such great ideas! I mean he couldn’t have had this same point more than eleven or twelve hundred times now! I just wish I had such a brilliant mind!

By George

March 2, 2006 08:51 AM | Link to this

Good Grief Andy!

The toon is about W and Gumby and India. Focus man, focus. I know it is hard but at least try to stay on topic.

By Ricky

March 2, 2006 08:51 AM | Link to this

It seems the left can’t give up on the idea that Bush is stupid. If his is that stupid, what does that say about Gore and Kerry who couldn’t beat him. Or about the Democratic Party as a whole?

By Eric

March 2, 2006 08:54 AM | Link to this

You really can’t pay any attention to what that Andy says. He’s a liar just like Limbaugh and OReilly. Excellent effort, Mike. You hit the Moron on the head every time.

By Ricky

March 2, 2006 09:13 AM | Link to this

This is easily one of lucko’s worst cartoons. You can sense his absolute hatred for Bush because he is trying to come up with anything to make him look bad and he is not succeeding with this one.

By N-GA

March 2, 2006 09:18 AM | Link to this

Clare & Danish:

Reprinting my earlier post verbatim: “Good toon….definitely examines the depth of GWB’s intellect.

Maybe Letterman will do a “Gandhi-Gumby, Gumby-Gandhiâ€? routine.”

Now then, if you care to read AND understand what I wrote you will see that I KNOW ML is lapooning GWB’s intellect…I was using sarcasm to express myself.

Danish, I used to think you were stupid, but I was wrong. You are simply a fool! You are probably fortunate to have any job.

By N-GA

March 2, 2006 09:20 AM | Link to this

What I really enjoy is the fact that GWB wants to honor Gandhi. GWB has said on more than one ossasion: “I am a WAR president!” I’m sure Gandhi would have something to say about the hypocrisy of it all.

Even Gandhi’s relatives are choking on this photo op.

By George

March 2, 2006 09:21 AM | Link to this

Limbaugh and OReilly aren’t really liars. They are just telling it like it is on their home planet. Unfortunately, it is not the same reality that we live in so you have to take it for what it is worth and consider their programs as one of the comedy channels.

By Ricky

March 2, 2006 09:21 AM | Link to this

It amazes me how quickly people will call each other stupid for sharing differing views.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 09:28 AM | Link to this

NG-A,

I know that you are an expert in the field of cartoon-analysis, and I know that you know that the cartoon was “lapooning” (sic)W’s intellect. I mean, DUH!

When I very nicely gave you advice about holding on to your day job, I was referring to this lame attempt at humor:

Maybe Letterman will do a “Gandhi-Gumby, Gumby-Gandhi� routine.

In other words, Letterman has received your resume’ and it is being used as a paper airplane.

By N-GA

March 2, 2006 09:28 AM | Link to this

Hey Ricky,

Do you think telling someone they are stupid is really much different than telling someone not to quit their day job? Besides, I didn’t say he was stupid, I said he was a fool!

By Andy

March 2, 2006 09:29 AM | Link to this

I do know who Gumby is.

Gumby first appeared on Howdy Doody in 1956

By Ricky

March 2, 2006 09:32 AM | Link to this

N-GA I was talking about everyone on this post. Not anyone in specific. Obviously you are guilty of it or you wouldn’t have responded, but like I said I was talking about the blog as a whole

By AntiRadical

March 2, 2006 09:34 AM | Link to this

Clare: I think this toon is saying that Bush knows exactly who Ghandi is (peace-loving, socialist) and thinks of him as “Gumby”. GWB is then supposed to be bad for using Ghandi’s memory for a “photo-op” when he is opposed to his philosophical ideology. ML is not lampooning Bush’s ignorance but his intolerance and his dishonesty about it. I can’t say that I agree, but that is the message I got from the toon. Why do you think the toon “lampoons Bush’s ignorance”? I don’t follow.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 09:36 AM | Link to this

George,

Since you are such an expert on lying in the media, can you cite a specific “lie” from either Rush or O’Reilly?

Corrected errors do not qualify as lies, and if you use Dan Rather, Michael Moore, or Osama Bin Laden as a source your example will be immediately discredited.

By Eric

March 2, 2006 09:37 AM | Link to this

I really like liberal women, they are so stupid. When I force myself on them and they say no, I just get them drunk. Then they let me have my way. They are so easy, they try to make me wear a rubber but I just tell them to get an abortion.

I make them pay for it, too.

By Candide

March 2, 2006 09:41 AM | Link to this

Listen up, you stupid conservatives. We don’t want to hear your opinions in here. Go Away! If you keep coming here we will post as-sinine things using your name, we will shout you down, we are too weak and ignorant too argue with you straight up. We know you are right but we can’t fight fair, we are liberals after all. LEAVE US ALONE!

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 09:43 AM | Link to this

Imagine a really shrill scream from your favorite horror flick. Now read this:

No wonder the moonbats believe what they believe - just look at the cartoon analysis. Our favorite “professional’s” offering is an all time classic in what RW calls “paralysis by analysis”.

By Scooter

March 2, 2006 09:45 AM | Link to this

Eric, you should be careful doing that, cause if I hear about you from bartenders it may not be orgasmic for you? If you use rufees, it may be your last.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 09:46 AM | Link to this

Eric,

See my challenge to George above. It should have gone to you.

George,

Sorry. As humor is a personal thing, you’re excused.

By Wow

March 2, 2006 09:49 AM | Link to this

Ricky, you are the biggest crybaby. All you ever do is cry about things you read here. Stop the crybaby whine routine.

“Waaaaa he hates Bush” says Ricky. “Waaaaa he said a mean word.” “Waaaa he is so partisan.” “Waaaaaaaa” whines Ricky.

By Pinko Liberal

March 2, 2006 09:49 AM | Link to this

I’m so dam-n mad! The government turned down my application for hurricane relief. They had the audicity to ask me for proof of residence. Who the h-ell do these people think they are? This is B———T, I need another tattoo.

By MJK

March 2, 2006 09:59 AM | Link to this

Excellent Mike!

Now that’s funny.

By finch

March 2, 2006 10:02 AM | Link to this

Well!!

Getting back to the cartoon, I think it’s really funny!

And I LOVE N-GA’s suggestion: “Gumby… Ghandi.. Gumby… Ghandi”

Jon Stewart, if you’re reading this, steal this joke.

By AntiRadical

March 2, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this

Poor Danish, at least your not lying today and pretending to be something your not. Maybe you’re trying to grow some character after all. You won’t gain any by constantly berating those with whom you disagree, but please continue to alenate moderates like myself. I voted for GWB twice and with the same choices would do so again right now. That doesn’t mean that he gets a free ride. On the contrary, I expect the people I vote for to complete their campaign pledges and to complete their terms leaving a good impression for the next candidate.

Fringe radicals like yourself sure make it easy to paint the entire conservative movement as “head-cases”. If the Dems give me something other than Dean, Gore, Kerry, Hillary, or Lieberman to vote for I will probably vote for them for the same reason I voted for GWB in the Gore race (the Dems had been in power too long and thought they had carte blanche from moderates). A good character-building exercise for you will be to pull down the Florida election results from 2000, take 1% of the votes that were placed for only Ralph Nader and add them to Al Gore’s column, then see who would be President. I love your cockiness and arrogance, you’re really winning the other side over. Keep up the good work, see you at the polls in 2008!

By G Dumbya Bush

March 2, 2006 10:12 AM | Link to this

Mike L, with all the great comedy and tragedy Bush provides on a daily basis have you ever considered going with 2 cartoons a day? For instance, you haven’t been able to do a cartoon about Bush’s Homeland security meeting before Katrina. You are doing your readers a disservice, supply and demand merit more cartoons from you, and Bush makes it so easy, it won’t require much more work on your part.

By Syd

March 2, 2006 10:24 AM | Link to this

Once again, ML’s hatred for W and his disrepect for the President’s office has shown through. I find ML rather childish. He typically further exaggertes the medias’ lies and half-truths. There are certainly a lot of areas in which he can “pick” on W: increased government spending, his choice of some political appointees, lack of border control to name a few. But his choice of topic is usually just silly. I know high school kids that have a better understanding of government issues.

By Roger L

March 2, 2006 10:26 AM | Link to this

I’m sure glad Gumby hasn’t died yet. I can hear it now, you Bushies would be going hysterical!

Something like “How could you be so insensitive Mike, Gumby was such a great American figure. How could you be so insensitive to the poor little character after he has passed away. Liberals are so mean, just like at the C. King funeral. LET GUMBY REST IN PEACE.”

By Brian Curtis

March 2, 2006 10:33 AM | Link to this

Does anyone get to whine about “disrespect for the office of the President” any more? I thought we pretty much dispensed with that concept during Clinton’s time in office.

I know I haven’t held back from criticizing my Chief Executive Officer since the Nixon embarrassment.

This whole “worship the Oval Office” mindset is unseemly AND un-American, folks. Is Bush really so weak and frightened that he can’t stand criticism—that he needs you folks to stick up for him and shout down anyone who might let a harsh word reach his ear?

What a wuss.

By Roger L

March 2, 2006 10:42 AM | Link to this

Has anyone seen the new CBS poll? How low can this “president” go. My gosh, 34% approval rating. Thats pretty bad, Gumby could get better ratings.

Gumby for President!….Pokey for VP!

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 10:51 AM | Link to this

Why Republicans Suck 1) They hate everyone that isn’t a white, rich, Protestant, straight male. Now, some of you are already champing at the bit, upon reading that last sentence, to respond with a comment like, “But I’m a woman and I’m a Republican”, or “I’m black and I’m a Republican”. If you are anything but a white, rich, Protestant, straight male, you’re deluding yourself if you identify with the Republican party or platform.

By AntiRadical

March 2, 2006 10:51 AM | Link to this

“The reason we have two ears and only one mouth is so that we may hear more and speak less.�- Zeno

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 10:52 AM | Link to this

Why Republicans Suck If you don’t fit one of the five categories above, the Republican party hates you. They hate poor people, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, Catholics, Muslims, women, and gay people. God help you if you’re a poor, Jewish, black, lesbian.

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 10:54 AM | Link to this

Why Republicans Suck

They believe in the sanctity of life, that fetuses should be allowed to be born and have the chance at life, and that all people who are sick and infirm should allow nature to take its course, saying that abortion and euthanasia are actions that “mess up God’s plan”. They also see nothing wrong with messing up God’s plan by taking the lives of criminals via the death penalty.

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 10:55 AM | Link to this

Why Republicans Suck

They ignore that this country was founded on the backs of cheap immigrant labor and people escaping crappy economic and political situations in denying the rights of Africans, Mexicans, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cubans and Haitians the right to do the same.

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 10:57 AM | Link to this

Why Republicans Suck

They actually think that Fox News is fair and balanced, that CNN and MSNBC are part of the “liberal media conspiracy”, and that Rush Limbaugh is anything other than a big fat idiot addicted to painkillers.

By Monica's Man

March 2, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this

Biachslaap…you are correct. I love being a Republican and would rather be dead than associate myself with the uneducated Democrat’s.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 11:00 AM | Link to this

Roger L,

Does the “L” stand for “Late” ? That C-BS poll data is like so days before yesterday.

Professional,

Poor Danish, at least your not lying today and pretending to be something your not

Gosh, I did come in for 2 posts as “Poetry Analyst” when OFTR was hanging about. Is that the source of your dementia?

By Monica's Man

March 2, 2006 11:03 AM | Link to this

Biachslaap, which one are you? poor, black, Hispanic, Asian, Jew, Catholic, Muslim, women, or gay

We know from your previous posts that you are uneducated.

By Poor Jewish Black Lesbian

March 2, 2006 11:06 AM | Link to this

Help! I’m being held hostage by GWB! I’m in the basement of the RNC headquarters. Please rescue me. You’ll know me when you see me.

Thanks in advance.

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 11:07 AM | Link to this

Monica’s Boy, Before you call Democrats uneducated, you should probably check the grammar of your posts, idiot.

By Syd

March 2, 2006 11:09 AM | Link to this

Biachslaap…now that is just a silly statement you make, “1) They hate everyone that isn’t a white, rich, Protestant, straight male.” I am white, make about $80,000 (which is not close to rich!!), catholic and consider myself a republican. And, I know a lot of other republicans and can say with all certainly, your statement is way off base and not close to the truth. Hate is a very strong word and even if you change it to “dislike”, your statement is still not close to accurate. It is statements like these that make liberals look silly and childish. The two parties would have better discussions if the liberals used more facts and logic in their debates.

By Monica's Man

March 2, 2006 11:15 AM | Link to this

Syd, give up explaining anything to Biachslaap. It’s obvious IT is a disgruntled poor black gay.

By Christy

March 2, 2006 11:18 AM | Link to this

Can’t we all just get along!

I thought the cartoon was hillarious. Mike, you’re the best.

Everyone else, lighten up.

By Syd

March 2, 2006 11:20 AM | Link to this

Brian…I do agree with you in that we must and can criticize the President. Trust me, I have criticized W plenty myself. My issue is criticizing the President when the criticism is based on lies and misinformation, which usually is coming from the media. I rarely believe at first glance any news report, whether it is coming from the AJC, the major networks, inclucing FOX or CNN, etc. It is truly sad that most Americans will believe as Gospel any headline or report without any further investigation.

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 11:20 AM | Link to this

If you’re making $80,000, you’re rich.

If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, keeping all the existing human ratios the same, there would be: 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south, 8 Africans, 52 would be female, 48 would be male, 70 would be non-white, 30 would be white, 70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian, 80 would live in substandard housing, 70 would be unable to read, 50 would suffer from malnutrition, 1 would be near death, 1 would be near birth, 1 (yes, only 1) would be a university graduate, 1 would own a computer. 6 people (all from the USA) would posses 59% of the world’s wealth. These six would be in control of the village.

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 11:21 AM | Link to this

Monica’s Boy, thanks for proving my point.

By David

March 2, 2006 11:22 AM | Link to this

Great cartoon, Mike!

By GERM

March 2, 2006 11:23 AM | Link to this

They believe in the sanctity of life, that fetuses should be allowed to be born and have the chance at life

Backslap,

HOW DARE THEY! Thanks for giving truth to power. No justice no peace. No blood for oil. Save the caribou. End world population now! I’m a Democrat and I vote. Party on!

By Buy French

March 2, 2006 11:24 AM | Link to this

Don’t any of you nazis work?

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 11:24 AM | Link to this

Christy,

Fine. Just do us a favor and don’t analyze it for us, okay?

By Christy

March 2, 2006 11:25 AM | Link to this

Leave B-slap alone. I know for a fact that IT is not a poor, black, gay person. But the idea that you have already put pre-judged and put IT into a category kinda makes IT’s previous point.

Compassionate conservatism at it’s best.

By Jesus

March 2, 2006 11:28 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By Christy

March 2, 2006 11:29 AM | Link to this

You got it Danish! Have a great day.

By Freedom Fries

March 2, 2006 11:31 AM | Link to this

How does a republican commit suicide? He gathers all his hate into a pile & jumps off.

What do you call a cellar full of republicans? A whine cellar.

How many republicans does it take to change a lightbulb? Just 1, but first he’ll have to spend $40 million in taxpayer money holding a congressional hearing on it, while complaining how everyone else wastes money. Then he’ll have a special investigator spend another $40 million on it.

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this

What’s the difference between a puppy & republican who the lobbyist didn’t pay enough? Eventually the puppy stops whining.

What’s the difference between a republican & a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist.

Why are republican hearts so coveted for transplants? They’ve had so little use.

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 11:36 AM | Link to this

What’s the difference between God & a republican? God knows he’s not a republican.

What’s the difference between a republican & a sack of manure? The sack

What’s the diference between a world war & a republican promise? The republican promise causes more suffering.

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 11:41 AM | Link to this

You voted for him.

“It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More & more of our imports come from overseas.” -George W. Bush

“I understand small business growth. I was one.” -George W. Bush

“The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of their money.” -George W. Bush

“Well, I think if you’re going to do something & don’t do it, that’s trustworthiness.” -George W. Bush

By GERM

March 2, 2006 11:44 AM | Link to this

keeping all the existing human ratios the same…1 would be near birth

Blackslap,

What have you done? You’ve just blown one of the hallmarks of the DNC platform. You have called someone near birth “human”.

You’re in big fat trouble with NARAL.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 11:49 AM | Link to this

What’s the difference between a republican & a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist

Backslap,

Q. What’s the difference between a Democrat and a Republican?

A. Republicans won’t negotiate with terrorists.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 11:52 AM | Link to this

“Professional”,

Okay, I admit it. Today I have used a few different handles to sign in and talk to Backslap.

By PinestrawGuy

March 2, 2006 11:53 AM | Link to this

Why Republicans Suck

They ignore that this country was founded on the backs of cheap immigrant labor and people escaping crappy economic and political situations in denying the rights of Africans, Mexicans, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cubans and Haitians the right to do the same.

All I can say is you really don’t have a clue, do you? No human being has the right to enter another country in violation of that country’s laws. Plain and simple. No ILLEGAL alien has the rights guaranteed to CITIZENS in our Constitution. Those here ILLEGALLY should go home and work to change their OWN GOVERNMENTS if they want THEIR rights.

ML, GREAT cartoon! That big-eared idiot is over there kissing the rears of INFOSYS, WIPRO and TATA, the very corporations that FLOODED the U.S. with H1B visa holders and wiped out the American IT workers. Bush is a Globalist moron that needs to be impeached!

By Andy

March 2, 2006 11:53 AM | Link to this

If you take all of the little pinko funnies that have been shared with us this morning, replace the Republican with “liberals” and you are starting to get close.

The party of Condeleeza Rice hates blacks?

The party that doesn’t coddle Yasar Arafat (he’s dead, no s*) hates Jews?

I could go on but I’ll let you try it.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 12:02 PM | Link to this

Andy,

What amazes me is that ML doesn’t find any inspiration for his cartoons in the moonbats who post here. There is such a wealth of material - it’s like the motherlode of all motherlodes and the opportunities are just passing him by.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 12:07 PM | Link to this

Danish: Give cartoon boy credit though, if anybody could find a thousand different flavors of “Bush Sucks,” considering that there is nothing there to begin with, he can.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 12:10 PM | Link to this

For instance: He is working closely with and reaching agreements with an important ally in not only the war on terror, but also a huge business partner, so, of course, Bush Sucks.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 12:15 PM | Link to this

Uh-Oh, NBC has had the BUSH Katrina super secret society briefing tapes since August 28, 2005. So they weren’t secret! Bush is in control of NBC! Bush knew, he knew! I don’t know what he knew, but he knew!

By Monica's Man

March 2, 2006 12:16 PM | Link to this

I’m so glad I’m republican because I do hate all losers, aka democrats. Most are uneducated, lazy, poor, and very unattractive. I like being with the rich beautiful people like me.

By candide

March 2, 2006 12:17 PM | Link to this

Perhaps some fanatic in India or Pakistan will solve our Bush problem for us. We can take care of Cheney later.

By Objective Observer

March 2, 2006 12:19 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish/Andy:

ml wouldn’t have to work too hard to garner the thoughts of the extreme left. They’re pretty much the same and rolled up tightly into one tiny “little mindset”.

By Snoop

March 2, 2006 12:22 PM | Link to this

Can someone please answer a question for me? I notice that some of the same people post here disagreeing with the cartoons published by the artist. Some of them are pretty irate. Why would you read these cartoons everyday and get so worked up over them? It seems to me that the best way to get back at this artist is to stop patronizing and responding to his cartoons. Or am I missing the real reason behind these daily political matches between all the parties involved?

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 12:26 PM | Link to this

Candide,

Damn. Haven’t the FBI been to see you yet? Maybe they’re waiting for that FISA warrant to go through.

By PinestrawGuy

March 2, 2006 12:26 PM | Link to this

Cheney’s big roll in government consists of assassination insurance. Oh, and more profits for Halliburton.

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 12:29 PM | Link to this

You voted for him:

“People don’t need to worry about security. This deal wouldn’t go forward if we were concerned about the security for the United States of America.” George W. Bush, on the deal to hand over U.S. port security to a company operated by the United Arab Emirates, Washington, D.C., Feb. 23, 2006

By Scooter

March 2, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this

There was a nice little comedic section of the blog that touched on many generalizations.

It is a shame that AntiRadical wasn’t aboard last night to see JC and how he kept telling everyone to support socialism.

That was when I became relatively sure he was a government school teacher, hence the drip… drip… drip towards socialism we go.

I hope my grammar passes muster, I wouldn’t want to let any liberal build a straw man on grammer?

OO, it may be a selct few braniacs, who keep having to change their handles.

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this

You voted for him:

“Those who enter the country illegally violate the law.” George W. Bush, Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 28, 2005

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2006 12:36 PM | Link to this

Was the “professional” reincarnated as “biachslapp”?

By Hadden Knough

March 2, 2006 12:36 PM | Link to this

All I know is that in the 7th grade I got caught drawing a cartoon of a girl I couldn’t stand. Seems like I had her being dipped in manure. I thought it was real funny. The teacher didn’t think so. Anyway, maturity set in one day and I felt foolish about a lot of things, like how big my nose was compared to the rest me all of a sudden, but the girl-in-poop cartoon bothered me too. Still couldn’t stand her, but jeez, I realized I had been a stupid little bastard. Now that I think about it, the girl was smart, prepared, did her homework, succeeded and probably made me look dumb by comparison. You know, my wife does the same thing now, but I’ve never wanted to dip her in manure. Other stuff maybe, but never manure. Hey yeah, and the notebook I had been drawing in had my class notes too, which I didn’t get it back for two freaking weeks. Stupid teacher. Ah, screw ‘em all anyways, except for my wife..…well, yes……oh, you know what I mean.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

March 2, 2006 12:39 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish wrote: “Backslap,

Q. What’s the difference between a Democrat and a Republican?

A. Republicans won’t negotiate with terrorists.”

other answer - Republicans hire companies owned by governments that finance terrorists to run ‘mericas ports.

By Daniel

March 2, 2006 12:42 PM | Link to this

Ollie North and the Iran-Contras?

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 12:46 PM | Link to this

“By now we should all know that being a conservative means never having to say you’re sorry. ” Joe Conason, Salon

“Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.” John Stuart Mill Island of Freedom

“The more they talk, the more being called a Liberal sounds like a compliment.” Douglas Giles

That’s certainly true of their comments on this page.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 12:47 PM | Link to this

RW,

I don’t know. The Professional claims to be a “moderate”. But then again he claims that I am pretending to be someone else, so anything is possible.

By Scooter

March 2, 2006 12:47 PM | Link to this

Hire? Dang, here I was thinking it was a purchase negotiated between a British Company and the UAE.

Perhaps that is why I am not a liberal georgia democrat, but a stupid redneck conservative?

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2006 12:48 PM | Link to this

LTD,

Another difference is Republicans won’t deliberately lie about a Dubai company buying a British company to try to make their point.

By Biachslaap

March 2, 2006 12:48 PM | Link to this

You voted for him.

“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” George W. Bush, in a CNN interview. 12-18-00

By Daniel

March 2, 2006 12:50 PM | Link to this

George F. Will has an excellent piece in todays Washington Post on Iraq. It is called: “The Rhetoric of Unreality”. Our leaderless nation dawdles while Iraq slips into Civil War.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 12:52 PM | Link to this

They believe in the sanctity of life, that fetuses should be allowed to be born and have the chance at life

RW,

I take that back. You’re right, they must be one and the same. How stupid of me not to figure it out, especially since I signed in as GERM in honor of the very same professional. I’m getting rusty. Time for another cup of coffee.

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2006 12:57 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

If we’re lucky maybe next you can find us a story about those Iranian Contra dudes.

By Daniel

March 2, 2006 01:02 PM | Link to this

RWR unfroze millions in Iranian assets in this country after the students released the hostages in 1980. Of course, this was seen to help elect RWR; there were negotiations with the Iranians while Carter was president.

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2006 01:03 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

If this one claims to be a “health care professional” too, I won’t go near a hospital until I find out for sure who these people are or at the very least where they work. The other one reminds me of this guy.

By FU GOP

March 2, 2006 01:05 PM | Link to this

Bush Is My Shepherd

Bush is my shepherd. I dwell in want.

He maketh logs to be cut down in national forests.

He leadeth trucks into the still wilderness.

He restoreth my fears.

He leadeth me in the paths of international disgrace for his ego’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of pollution and war I will find no exit, for thou art in office.

Thy tax cuts for the rich and thy media control, they discomfort me.

Thou preparest an agenda of deception in the presence of thy religion.

Thou anointest your wallet with foreign oil.

My health insurance runneth out.

Surely megalomania and false patriotism shall follow me all the days of thy term

And my jobless child shall dwell in my basement forever.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 01:09 PM | Link to this

RW,

I actually asked the original “professional” where he worked so we could have a heads-up and avoid his place of employment, but never got an answer.

Thanks to your link I may have found the reason - Perhaps he’s in prison and is too ashamed to admit it. All that “moderate” stuff is for his parole officers.

By MS

March 2, 2006 01:10 PM | Link to this

Can anyone explain to to me why The UAE would spend millions of dollers in this deal if there intention was to screw up the economy they just spent big money to invest in? If few of the inbound containers are inspected anyway and they wanted to send a nuclear bomb or somthing,why would they need to take over the ports and take a huge financial loss to do so? This is just stupid.

By Joseph Goebbels

March 2, 2006 01:11 PM | Link to this

GOP and Nazi strategy

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over�

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.�

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.�

By Andy

March 2, 2006 01:11 PM | Link to this

The spirit of Tom Delay lives!

Despite the Democrats’ attempts to use litigation and the race card to win a battle they couldn’t win politically, the redistricting plan that cost Tom DeLay his position as House Majority Leader appears to have survived a major challenge Thursday. But even though almost the entire Texas congressional delegation attended the oral arguments, he wasn’t there to see it. He probably felt that his presence would be an unwelcome distraction from the story that really mattered, which is that the redistricting plan that he fought for finally gave Texans representatives who represent them.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 01:14 PM | Link to this

Go jobless child! Give that pinko his own little taste of the welfare state!

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2006 01:16 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

The guy in the link was sentenced to 11 life terms. Parole may not be an option anytime soon.

By Duh

March 2, 2006 01:16 PM | Link to this

If republicans had been on the Titanic they would have been saying, “you dumb, uneducated, pinko libs, there is no ice. You are just trying to start a rumor and discredit the captain and this fine ship. You lazy, slimeball liberals. There is no ice.”

By Daniel

March 2, 2006 01:16 PM | Link to this

Lawrence Kaplan writing in the Ne Republic says: “Iraq’s infrastructure…decays by the hour. The level of corruption that pervades Iraq’s ministerial orbit would have made South Vietnam’s kleptocrats blush…corruption has helped drive every public service measure—electricity, potable water, heating oiol down below prewar norms.”

By Ben

March 2, 2006 01:17 PM | Link to this

Hey Biachslaap,

Thank you for informing everyone how much Republicans suck, and how evil it is to be successful and wealthy.

Thank you for reminding us that big business owners are out to destroy the lives of minorities, even though big business owners are the ones that give them jobs, money, and health benefits.

Thank you for reminding us that The Republicans are so racist with more minorities appointed to prominent positions of power than the Democrats have ever achieved.

Thank you for making sure we brush aside the fact that Clinton’s mentor, Falbright, was a segregationist.

I will also try to forget that Bob Byrd was a Klansman.

Thanks to you I don’t have to take into consideration Ted Kennedy was in a Harvard organization that excluded women (even the ones he did not drown to death).

Because of you, I now know it is the Republicans who are racist and oppressive, and not the Democrats, who with the help of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton perpetuate the mindset that blacks and other minorities cannot take care of themselves, and need government assistance and racist programs such as minority quotas in college admissions.

Now, because of you, I know it is safe to consume Ray Nagin’s claim that New Orleans is going to be a “chocolate city.” It certainly isn’t a racist comment, because had a white mayor of a different city had said, “vanilla city” we all know THAT is the real evil. Right?

I also can sleep well at night knowing there is nothing wrong with Hillary Clinton comparing the white house to “a plantation…and you know what kind I’m talking about” to a predominately black audience.

Last but not least, I now see that Dean was perfectly in line when he stated, “You can’t see the Republicans getting so many people of color in one room, unless they count the hotel staff.”

Thank you for your guidance, Biachslaap. I will take your comments into consideration the next time you bag my groceries so you can go home with your minimum wage paycheck to pop your zits before m@sturbating to your big sister’s Victoria’s Secret Catalog to settle yourself in for a good night’s sleep in your parents’ basement.

And I think the cartoon is kind of funny…although the “Bush is dumb!” joke, being about 4 years old and told countless times, has gotten a bit stale for people of intellectual superiority to crybaby, pillow-biting liberals.

By getalife

March 2, 2006 01:18 PM | Link to this

March 2, 2006 — The paper trail seems so obvious, it makes you wonder whether anyone ever worried about getting caught. When Congressman Tom Delay and his wife flew from Houston to a golf resort in Scotland, in June, 2000, the first class air fare cost $14,001. A big ticket item for a public servant. But someone else was paying.

Jack should have paid cash.

By Joseph Goebbels

March 2, 2006 01:19 PM | Link to this

More GOP/Nazi similarities in strategy:

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”

By Poor Jewish Black Lesbian

March 2, 2006 01:22 PM | Link to this

And my jobless child shall dwell in my basement forever

Daddy,

Please stop blogging and saving trees and rescue me!

I told you I’m being held prisoner in the RNC basement. The address is 310 First Street, SE, Washington, DC.

Hurry please.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 01:23 PM | Link to this

RW,

Well he can dream can’t he?

By Midori

March 2, 2006 01:25 PM | Link to this

A- If we are going to use the fact that Bush asked no questions as a standard of proof that they were not “ready� and were somehow responsible for the destruction, then where does Bill Clinton fit into the 9/11 chain of guilt, considering he never even held national security briefings, never mind ask questions, while in the White House.

Andy, please stop spreading lies.

I know it’s rough backing and continuing to back this loser moron of a “president”. I really do.

But you need to stop spreading lies, and educate yourself.

You have purposely switched the scenarios. It was Bush who never held national security meetings. It was Bush who came into office slashing the budget and programs Clinton instituted to thwart terrorism. It was Bush who was warned by Sandy Berger that Osama would be their number one priority. It was on Bush’s watch that 9/11 occurred.

You can throw the Clinton straw man up all you want, but please stop the lies.

And no one wanted Bush to “jump into a hurricane” or something nonsensical as that.

We wanted him to be a leader. But as we have seen time and time again, that’s just not in his makeup as a person.

That guy is nothing but sound bites and cliches.

By Monica's Man

March 2, 2006 01:28 PM | Link to this

Anyone know where a good BMW dealer is on the southside? I’m going to get me a new one with my tax refund.

By candide

March 2, 2006 01:28 PM | Link to this

FUGOP! Great psalm.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 01:30 PM | Link to this

By Joseph Goebbels March 2, 2006 01:11 PM

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over�

A B.S.- Video Shows Bush Warned Before Katrina Hit

PMSNBC- Video shows Bush got explicit Katrina warning

C B.S.- (democrat slanted poll network)- Bush Knew Of Katrina’s Wrath Day Prior

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 01:30 PM | Link to this

J.Goebbels,

I thought that that was your job. Repeat over and over again:

Nazihomophobefascistneoconhaters.

As your numers are shrinking, maybe you should try something new.

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2006 01:31 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

It turns out he will be eligible for parole, in just over 397 years.

By Guy Bernard

March 2, 2006 01:32 PM | Link to this

Great cartoon, Mr. Luckovich!

Looks like some people are making the comment section their personal chat room. They must not know how to use message boards. This is for comments, not ideological banter.

By Ben

March 2, 2006 01:33 PM | Link to this

Hey Goebbels! Congratulations! You have learned how to cut-and-paste!

Pretty soon you’ll move up to reading comprehension!

And in a few years, your body will go through some changes. You’ll notice hair growing under your arms, and in your crotch. Your voice will start to “crack” and eventually get lower. You may even go through a growth spurt and get much taller rapidly!

Then someday, maybe someday, you’ll be able to actually come up with your own arguments, and they may even be coherent!

There’s a big, beautiful world ahead of you.

By candide

March 2, 2006 01:34 PM | Link to this

We believe in the Republican party almighty, creator of wealth and power, and of its only son George W., darkness from darkness, power from power, one in being with the GOP by whom all things were made, for our sake and our salvation he came out of private life, born of the New England Yankee, suffered under the Democrats, was wounded, died, and was buried. On 2000 he rose again and ascended to the Power, from which he shall judge the living and the dead. And in Karl Rove the Holy Sprite, the giver of Power, from whom proceeds all good things, and in the Holy Republican Church, the communion of the born-again, the non-forgiveness of debt, and the world to come. Amen

By finch

March 2, 2006 01:34 PM | Link to this

Lots of screaming and posturing here today. Much of it from folks I’ve never heard of before. Who is this beechslap? And this Goebbels creep?

Anybody for lunch?

Pass the mustard.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 01:36 PM | Link to this

Midori: Let’s be fair to the whole post:

The people that died or injured were the ones that were not evacuated. Bush and Brown did not round up victims after this briefing, drive them to the Superdome and chain them to the seats. Trust me.

Don’t leave out the pertinent stuff, like you pinkos always do…

By Maria Winship

March 2, 2006 01:36 PM | Link to this

What a great job, Mike! I’m glad to see that most AJC readers agree, despite the thought-police posts by BuyDanish, Andy, RW, and the other nimrods.

By Monica's Man

March 2, 2006 01:38 PM | Link to this

I need to hire a maid. Any of you Libs interested? I will you you $6 an hour.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 01:38 PM | Link to this

By Guy Bernard Looks like some people are making the comment section their personal chat room. They must not know how to use message boards. This is for comments, not ideological banter.

So stop commenting already.

By Nick Abrams

March 2, 2006 01:38 PM | Link to this

LOL! That’s the Bush I know and hate.

By getalife

March 2, 2006 01:38 PM | Link to this

Contrary to popular belief, people do not taste like pork or chicken.”

No thanks.

By Kate Fontaine

March 2, 2006 01:39 PM | Link to this

Funny! I still like the one with Bin Laden and the W sticker, that nailed it!

By Liam Quinn

March 2, 2006 01:42 PM | Link to this

Excellent cartoon, Mike!

GW is an idiot.

By Missy

March 2, 2006 01:43 PM | Link to this

Ha ha ha! It’s such an embarrassment to have that fool as the leader of the world’s greatest nation.

By Alan Mercer

March 2, 2006 01:44 PM | Link to this

Bravo, Mike! Bush does suck.

By Carol Harrington

March 2, 2006 01:46 PM | Link to this

We love you, Mike! You speak for the majority!

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 01:47 PM | Link to this

finch,

They could be one and the same person, and others too.

By Freedom Fries

March 2, 2006 01:47 PM | Link to this

The culture war is on. Eat the rich.

By Monica's Man

March 2, 2006 01:50 PM | Link to this

I like a clean shaven Bush

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 01:50 PM | Link to this

Maria winship,

Well, we are good at reading your minds and really understanding who you are.

By Midori

March 2, 2006 01:50 PM | Link to this

Andy,

I don’t like mixing apples and oranges; therefore I didn’t leave out the “pertinent” stuff as you call it.

just because you like hopping all over the map doesn’t mean that I do, too.

By Brian Curtis

March 2, 2006 01:51 PM | Link to this

I like how Bushie’s ears match up to the ribbon on the wreath he’s holding… surrounding pretty much the same amount of empty space.

By Jay not jay

March 2, 2006 01:54 PM | Link to this

finch, don’t give Lucko any new ideas for a cartoon!

By Buy French

March 2, 2006 01:56 PM | Link to this

Morons are so easily flamed, but that’s what I enjoy most- bringing out their true colors.

By Nguyen Eng

March 2, 2006 02:02 PM | Link to this

I don’t know which is worse, having such an ignorant president or having so many idiots who support him!

By Monica's Man

March 2, 2006 02:03 PM | Link to this

After taxes, I only get a little over half of it to spend on vacation. That sucks.

By Roman Polchievski

March 2, 2006 02:04 PM | Link to this

Very appropriate likeness of the worst President of my long lifetime.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 02:13 PM | Link to this

O.K. Midori: Let’s try it like this- If all of the people in New Orleans had been evacuated, as Bush specifically told them to do before the storm hit land, how many would have died or been injured?

By Buster

March 2, 2006 02:14 PM | Link to this

RP

You must have been born after January 1981, the year Carter left office

By PinestrawGuy

March 2, 2006 02:19 PM | Link to this

Nguyen,

I think it’s a toss-up.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 02:19 PM | Link to this

Don’t leave out the pertinent stuff, like you pinkos always do…

“I want to assure the folks at the state level that we are fully prepared to not only help you during the storm, but we will move in whatever assets and resources we have at our disposal after the storm to help you deal with the loss of property, and we pray for no loss of life, of course.” GWB

By Eric

March 2, 2006 02:24 PM | Link to this

I really like liberal women, they are so stupid. When I force myself on them and they say no, I just get them drunk. Then they let me have my way. They are so easy, they try to make me wear a rubber but I just tell them to get an abortion.’

I make them pay for it, too.

By RE

March 2, 2006 02:24 PM | Link to this

GWB; Worst president since…..?

Now this would be an interesting poll question. Lets see, working backward possible answers would be Clinton (for the bush dead enders), Carter, Nixon, Hoover, and then on to a lot of historically incompetant presidents, and of course ever. I would love to see a poll like that.

By Candide

March 2, 2006 02:25 PM | Link to this

Listen up, you stupid conservatives. We don’t want to hear your opinions in here. Go Away! If you keep coming here we will post as-sinine things using your name, we will shout you down, we are too weak and ignorant too argue with you straight up. We know you are right but we can’t fight fair, we are liberals after all. LEAVE US ALONE!!

By Objective Observer

March 2, 2006 02:25 PM | Link to this

It sure is a parade in here today. But the band is marching with no instruments and only “one” drum.

Gotta go, kids are coming back.

By Midori

March 2, 2006 02:27 PM | Link to this

Eric,

is there a point you’re trying to make? is it that you like having unprotected sex? is it that you have so much disdain for your own body that you’re purposely trying to catch something that will rot your member off?

By Pinko Liberal

March 2, 2006 02:30 PM | Link to this

My life is the pits. Now my welfare check has been cut off. They put a private detective on me, found out that I’m not a 17 year old black woman with ten children but that I’m really a 26 year old pimpley faced pinko that lives in his mommies basement. When they busted me, I tried to tell them that my dad was a liberal and he screwed my mommy and told her to get an abortion but she didn’t have any money, the cop told me that don’t count.

By Midori

March 2, 2006 02:31 PM | Link to this

Andy, let’s try this: How about Bush sending HELP to help those without the means to evacuate.

Their guardsmen are all deployed. The city/state surely didn’t have the resources.

Running off to a golf course doesn’t count.

Too bad he didn’t cut them all checks like he did the residents in Florida.

Ever look up FEMA’s mission?

By Jay not jay

March 2, 2006 02:34 PM | Link to this

Sure RE, you could poll the 20 people walking out of a Micheal Moore movie to get your data and give that to CBS.

By Monica's Man

March 2, 2006 02:37 PM | Link to this

Midori, are you saying to Eric that liberal women are dirty and carry a STD?

Most do ya know.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 02:37 PM | Link to this

Don’t leave out the pertinent stuff, like you pinkos always do…

“Two highly classified intelligence reports delivered directly to President Bush before the Iraq war cast doubt on key public assertions made by the president, Vice President Cheney, and other administration officials as justifications for invading Iraq and toppling Saddam Hussein, according to records and knowledgeable sources.”

By Midori

March 2, 2006 02:37 PM | Link to this

LOL

I love the anti-CBS comments.

Funny as hell!!!!!

YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!!!!!

By Ben

March 2, 2006 02:37 PM | Link to this

The liberal argument that “Bush is an idiot!” amuses me. Bush is an idiot who outsmarts the Dems/Liberals in two elections, dodges every attack against him, and every shrill hate-filled liberal attack against him backfires over and over again, as liberals lose more power with each passing day.

To call someone an idiot who fools you, out-manuevers you, and maintains his power with a grin on his face is quite ironic, wouldn’t you agree?

And if you truly think he is an idiot then who did you vote for? Surely it could not have been Kerry, who had a LOWER GPA than Bush in college. Surely it could not have been John F. Kerry, who claims to be so intellectually superior to Bush, yet refuses to release his S.A.T. score to pit it against Bush’s (1206). Surely you could not have cast your vote for the man who arguably has even a lower IQ than George Bush. I guess I can forgive you for falling for a popular internet hoax claiming Bush had the lowest IQ of the previous 50 presidents, because some well-renowned publication syndicates also fell for the same hoax.

Isn’t it ironic how while the “stupidest” “idiot” you all “hate” with every bit of energy you can muster is in power while there has not been a succesful terrorist attack on our soil since 9/11? Isn’t it ironic that this “moron” has been in office for 5 years so far and we now have unemployment at the same low we saw under Clinton’s watch? Did you notice that while your blood boils with anger toward your president the economy is doing very well despite Katrina, 9/11 and the recession it helped to cause, and the war on terror?

Geez…you’d think I really like Bush in office and I actually can’t wait to see him leave. But I’d rather replace my brain with a bag of sand (which would turn me into a liberal) than to replace Bush with one of your ilk.

Have a nice day.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 02:38 PM | Link to this

Midori: How about Bush sending HELP to help those without the means to evacuate. Ah-Hah! That’s not his job, that is the responsibility of local government, it’s how schollbus Nagin got his name.

By jenn

March 2, 2006 02:41 PM | Link to this

Hey, y’all! What rock did this idiot “Biachslaap” crawl out from?

By Scooter

March 2, 2006 02:42 PM | Link to this

Granted I was not even born when Tricky Dick was in office, but outside of his paranoia and Whitewater, I don’t see Nixon as a terrible president. Then again his congress created my career with the CWA. He also ended the draft for many young men and signed the CAA. Not all bad?

Somebody correct me, cause I am beginning to think it is the left demonizing again.

By Midori

March 2, 2006 02:45 PM | Link to this

no, I’m saying that only an idiot would have unprotected sex and brag about it.

Regardless of the political affiliation of the partner.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 02:45 PM | Link to this

Why do these liberals need to use my name to post their comments? (02:37) Are they that weak? Stupid? Pitiful?

By Scooter

March 2, 2006 02:46 PM | Link to this

I’m given mad propers to Ben for that one and I don’t like doing that. He reads a lot like Dr. R, with less patience.

By Midori

March 2, 2006 02:46 PM | Link to this

Ben’s been hanging around Ricky.

either that or they are clones.

Andy - give it a rest. you can put all the lipstick you want on a pig, but at the end of the day, a pig is just a pig.

Deal with your boy’s faults. Trying to deflect them onto others is not a very good start.

By Midori

March 2, 2006 02:47 PM | Link to this

Ben,

what do you want from us?

The guy is an idiot.

Deal with it. Accept it.

That’s the first step, you know.

By Jenn

March 2, 2006 02:48 PM | Link to this

I have to say, I agree with Midori. Eric is an idiot and he keeps typing that in, he did it last Friday as well.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 02:49 PM | Link to this

Don’t leave out the pertinent stuff, like you pinkos always do…

[The Republican revolt against Bush has pointed up a pattern of fractured communications and even outright hostility from the White House toward Congress, both in GOP hands, analysts say. The fact that split has come on Bush’s signature issue - security - makes it all the more striking.

But the administration’s handling of the controversy also raises a larger question among some Republicans: What is going on at the White House?](http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usbush024646915mar02,0,4392197.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-print)

By Midori

March 2, 2006 02:51 PM | Link to this

Midori, are you saying to Eric that liberal women are dirty and carry a STD?

Most do ya know.

wonder how you would know that?

oh, I get it. you’re a virus that seeks out certain women. I can smell the pus from here.

why don’t you infect your own kind? that may get your mind off who is having an abortion.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 02:52 PM | Link to this

Midori: So you agree that Bush should have jumped in the gulf and swam out to the hurricane?

By RE

March 2, 2006 02:53 PM | Link to this

To call someone an idiot who fools you, out-manuevers you, and maintains his power with a grin on his face is quite ironic, wouldn’t you agree?

Looks like he is still fooling about 34% of the people

By jenn

March 2, 2006 02:57 PM | Link to this

Hi RE!

By Monica's Man

March 2, 2006 02:58 PM | Link to this

RE…and CBS is fooling you.

By Midori

March 2, 2006 02:58 PM | Link to this

I’m sorry, Andy

By Jay not jay

March 2, 2006 02:59 PM | Link to this

No Andy,

Bush should have pushed the joystick a little to the right on his Super Duper Hurricane creating machine.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 02:59 PM | Link to this

RE: You mean this 34%?

CBS GETS NAILED ON PHONY BUSH POLL

By Monica's Man

March 2, 2006 03:00 PM | Link to this

Midori, your are starting to itch arent you now?

By Ben

March 2, 2006 03:01 PM | Link to this

Wow! I’m finally getting some attention around here! Scooter, who is Dr. R?

Midori, who is Ricky? And I don’t want anything from you, trust me.

Do I think Bush makes some idiotic moves? Absolutely. But the left are the ones that can’t accept it or deal with it. You are the ones filled with undeniable hatred, anger, and vitriol. You’re angry that you need a major terrorist attack on US soil, a major crash in the economy, and a huge spike in unemployment to get your power back. And I would certainly hate to be in that position; but I wouldn’t focus my energy on hating the President.

By SS&S

March 2, 2006 03:04 PM | Link to this

Post was for the other Andy at 2:49.

By RE

March 2, 2006 03:07 PM | Link to this

Sorry Andy, he is still fooling 34-40% of the people….is that better?

By Monica's Man

March 2, 2006 03:09 PM | Link to this

Liberals would love nothing more than have the US attacked again or the economy to crash just so they could say “I told you so” nana nana nana

By RE

March 2, 2006 03:10 PM | Link to this

Hi Jenn, hope you are well today

By Ben

March 2, 2006 03:12 PM | Link to this

Here is a video clip of Mike Luckovich whenever he reads about George Bush thwarting off liberal smear campaigns with ease.

By SS&S

March 2, 2006 03:12 PM | Link to this

Either I passed my previous post in the blogosphere or some are being omitted. Hmmmmm!

Can you libs get right on that for me, you’re the ones that are so good at conspiracy theories.

By Andy

March 2, 2006 03:16 PM | Link to this

Ben would you like to join our Bush Cheerleader group? You would fit right in with me Ricky and RW.

(Nice touch saying you don’t agree with everything Bush does then blast anyone who speaks against him) ;)

By finch

March 2, 2006 03:27 PM | Link to this

Sigh.

The Bush/Brown videos from AP show that on Sunday 8/28, Bush was told that Katrina could be a disaster of monumental proportions.

So what? Nothing new here. The transcripts of these tapes were released months ago.

Still unanswered? Why did the President wait until Wednesday afternoon, 8/31 to show the nation leadership?

He was busy. Monday he was in California speaking about Medicare reform. He stopped in Arizona to wish Sen. John McCain a happy birthday. Tuesday, he visited a California Navy base and played guitar with Mark Willis before returning to his Texas ranch.

Wednesday morning, he flew back to the White House, passing over New Orleans so he could be photopraphed looking concerned.

Busy, busy busy.

There’s no doubt Brown’s a scapegoat. It’s clear Nagin and Blanco were delusional.

But for a President to wait three days to acknowledge to the American people what everybody else in the country already knew, that Katrina was a horrible calamity needing the authority of their Commander-in-chief, shows an appalling lack of leadership, mind numbing insensitivity, and yes, incredible stupidity.

Carter would have been building houses. Reagan would (at Nancy’s prompting) be telling the nation “We’re doing everything we can”. Bush 41, a guy who knew how to manage and delegate, would have been doing just that. Clinton would have at least told us (lower lip trembling), “I feel your pain”.

George W. Bush? He was busy.

By Midori

March 2, 2006 03:38 PM | Link to this

Liberals would love nothing more than have the US attacked again or the economy to crash just so they could say “I told you so� nana nana nana

what a contemptible pig you are.

that’s not our style — if anything, it’s yours.

we don’t need complete disaster in order to claim “we told you so”.

By Monica's Man

March 2, 2006 03:43 PM | Link to this

Midori….Oh yes you do.

By Monica's Man

March 2, 2006 03:45 PM | Link to this

Oink

By Pinko's Worst Nightmare

March 2, 2006 03:50 PM | Link to this

O.K. you all can have Andy, I’ll use this one.

Again, how many people would have been killed or injured if Nagin would have evacuated New Orleans like Bush told him to before the hurricane made landfall?

By Midori

March 2, 2006 03:52 PM | Link to this

no we don’t.

No Child Left Behind — we told you so (disaster in the works).

Iraq — we told you so (disaster in the works).

Tax cuts — we told you so (disaster in the works).

It appears that we are not the only ones saying it, either.

but that’s lost on idiots like you.

don’t you have some pus to clean up?

By Emma

March 2, 2006 04:18 PM | Link to this

By Eric

March 2, 2006 02:24 PM | Link to this

I really like liberal women, they are so stupid. When I force myself on them and they say no, I just get them drunk. Then they let me have my way. They are so easy, they try to make me wear a rubber but I just tell them to get an abortion.’

I make them pay for it, too.

Eric: You are a low life scum bag. How many children have you fathered that are being supported by the government and don’t even know who their father is. You think you are being funny but I bet you are speaking from experience. I also bet you have date raped on numerous occasions. Are you one of the proud, holier than thou republicans?

By finch

March 2, 2006 04:21 PM | Link to this

Pinko, you’re missing the point. Most of the people who didn’t evacuate New Orleans before Katrina didn’t want to leave! They weren’t going to abandon their homes. They didn’t think Katrina was a killer. And so on.

It would have taken batallions of National Guard troops with fixed bayonets to get them on buses. The thousands of soaked and abandoned cars in New Orleans are blunt evidence that there were means for people to leave, and they chose not to. Yes, they were idiots. But that’s just the way people are.

The question remains… why did it take President Bush THREE DAYS to acknowledge that New Orleans was a problem, and to promise he’d do something about it?

By blogger

March 2, 2006 04:24 PM | Link to this

I was at the anti war rally this weekend and a really nice guy picked me up. We went and saw Brokeback Mountain together and boy, let me tell you, when those two cowboys got together, so did we! Right there on the theater floor. I wish I could remember his name. He was really sweet, I hope I see him again.

By George

March 2, 2006 04:29 PM | Link to this

“Midori: So you agree that Bush should have jumped in the gulf and swam out to the hurricane?”

He is too lazy for that. He could have just picked up the phone as Commander in Chief and told the military to get plenty of ships and troops in to New Orleans as soon as the Hurricane moved out of there. Would have made a great photo op!

Anything but the nothing that he did.

Now it looks like Brownie was the only smart one in the group and that hurts my head to even think about it. Ugh!

By Scooter

March 2, 2006 04:35 PM | Link to this

Ben, Dr. R, was a cat who used to come blog with us here. He was super stupid, like you and I, but he was cool calm and collected in dealing with the more intelligent amongst us. He, like most Bush apologists in here (myself included), can criticize all sides and filter through the reactionary sensationalism that is the “left”.

He was a cool cat, probbably still is, but he decided that beating his head against telephone polls was going to be more rewarding than trying to convince the truly brainwashed in this blog. I myself reach that point from time to time and have to withdraw from cyberspace. But I be back.

Yeah that’s right ya’ll I said brainwashed. Anyone who cannot tell me one good thing Bush has done and then that same person calls conservatives stupid fascist and such, is brainwashed by the governemnt loving machine.

Anyway Ben, that’s who Dr R is and welcome.

By Bob

March 2, 2006 04:36 PM | Link to this

Blogger:

So glad to hear from you. I would like to get together with you again also. Call me at 850 my 482 phone 7451.

By Kerry

March 2, 2006 04:37 PM | Link to this

Wow, Bush scored that highly on the SAT? I would have never thunk it given how articulate we all know him to be. Maybe his daddy paid for the scores… Don’t care what any of you say, he’s a complete and total Boob. That vacant desperate stare says it all.

By Pinko's Worst Nightmare

March 2, 2006 04:43 PM | Link to this

Posted 8/29/2005 11:49 PM Updated 8/30/2005 7:48 AM (2 days after the hurricane struck for those of you in Rio Lindo)- Google page, USA Today “some spared”

Big Easy rests easier

In New Orleans, there was significant damage but also sighs of relief that the city had escaped the utter devastation predicted if the levee system had failed and unleashed catastrophic flooding.

Bush got the same news I did, finch.

Some spared, but for others it’s ‘Camille II’

Residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast — an area devastated by a lethal Category 5 hurricane named Camille in 1969 — took the brunt of Katrina’s wrath Monday after the storm took an eastward turn, sparing flood-prone New Orleans from a catastrophe.

Looks like the blame is back on you pinkos and the lib media.

I’m still trying to figure out how it was ever Bush’s fault.

By RE

March 2, 2006 04:49 PM | Link to this

I am so confused and cannot think for myself, now that I know I can no longer trust CBS, and probably should not trust MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, NBC, or ABC…Where can I get good reliable information.

By Scooter

March 2, 2006 04:53 PM | Link to this

George, have you heard Ray Nagin lately. His standard for himself is; “I did more right than wrong”. He didn’t even need to say that because the desperate dem party has been placing all blame at the feet of the Commander in Chief, who if I am not mistaken is not allowed to use our military within our borders.

Do you and the left want the president to be given that authority? You should think aboyut what your reactionary sensationalism will get you. After all, that is how Hitler solidified his grip on Germany after being elected and we all know Bush is Hitler?

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 04:57 PM | Link to this

Wow, Bush scored that highly on the SAT?

Kerry,

The phrase “scored that highly” is incorrect English, which makes you a loser one more time, and it’s all the more annoying since you think you’re smart.

By blogger

March 2, 2006 04:58 PM | Link to this

MikeT: I too have tried and tried and tried to get into Andy’s pants but it is no deal. He is really a true full blooded totally normal American Conservative who completely believes in his convictions. I don’t know how he can be so strong.

Since you are unable to score with him also, I thought that maybe you and I could get together, if it’s o.k. with you. I’m a real sweet submissive type, I will do anything that you want. Whatcha say, baby?

By Pinko's Worst Nightmare

March 2, 2006 05:02 PM | Link to this

They must have some hot secretary’s:

Mr Clinton, who this week called the United Arab Emirates a “good ally to America,” advised Dubai’s leaders to propose a 45-day delay to allow for an intensive investigation of the acquisition, according to his spokesman… .

Hey, if any of you guys see him, could you tell him to call his “wife?”

By finch

March 2, 2006 05:04 PM | Link to this

“NPR.org, February 10, 2006 · A timeline released by a (Republican majority) Senate investigative panel shows 28 reports of levee failures the day Katrina made landfall in New Orleans (Monday, 8/29). The information is at odds with contentions from Bush administration officials who say they didn’t learn about the levee failures until the following day.”

Meanwhile, President Bush was doing more important things. Playing a guitar, celebrating a birthday, promoting Medicare reform, relaxing at his Texas ranch. Until Wednesday afternoon.

Sorry, Nightmare.

By Scooter

March 2, 2006 05:06 PM | Link to this

Getalife, if you are out there, how about tellin a brother what the word on the N.O. streets is about Nagin. He seems like N.O.’s version of our Vernon Jones, of Dekalb County Jawga.

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2006 05:12 PM | Link to this

finch,

WASHINGTON — On the day that Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, President Bush and a top presidential aide were worried about whether New Orleans’ levees had held, according to a transcript of discussions among disaster officials on the front lines of the storm.

Those concerns, expressed about midday Aug. 29, are in contrast to an image of a detached president and also to what happened later that night. That’s when an official manning the federal emergency operations center held off acting on reports of levee breaches as he waited for confirmation.

What would the New Orleans Times-Picyune know? They need to contact finch for facts.

By Pinko's Worst Nightmare

March 2, 2006 05:12 PM | Link to this

The following is from a newspaper in New Orleans, not from finch, so you’ll have to verify it’s authenticity, I can’t compete with the bastion of the truth:

The Times-Picayune (New Awlins

The day storm hit, Bush was worried about levees

WASHINGTON — On the day that Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, President Bush and a top presidential aide were worried about whether New Orleans’ levees had held, according to a transcript of discussions among disaster officials on the front lines of the storm.

“He remains very, very interested in this situation,” Brown said. “He’s obviously watching the television a lot, and he had some questions about the Dome, he’s asking questions about reports of breaches. He’s asking about hospitals. He’s very engaged, and he’s asking a lot of really good questions I would expect him to ask.”

By Scooter

March 2, 2006 05:13 PM | Link to this

finch, would it be safe to assume that you would like the Commander in Chief to be allowed to use the military within US borders?

By Daniel

March 2, 2006 05:15 PM | Link to this

Gov Kathleen Blanco pleaded for Federal aide on August 27! This was in the form of FEMA buses to evacuate NO.

By Daniel

March 2, 2006 05:16 PM | Link to this

Many of us would l;ike the CiC to use his head, within our borders.

By Wow

March 2, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this

How embarassing……..

latest gallup, Bush approval ratings:

2006 Feb 28-Mar 1 38 60 2

38% approval, 60% disapprove

How sad. Maybe its time for him to resign.

By Objective Observer

March 2, 2006 05:36 PM | Link to this

Translation:

Many of us would like the CiC to use his head, within our borders.

Liberals want the government to keep it’s head up their helpless a-ss at all times.

By finch

March 2, 2006 05:50 PM | Link to this

RW,

So on the day Katrina hit, President Bush told top aides he was really worried about the levees.

Not good enough. Not at all. Talk is cheap.

“finch, would it be safe to assume that you would like the Commander in Chief to be allowed to use the military within US borders?”

No, it would be safe to assume that I’d like the President to at least immediately acknowledge to the nation that there is a problem, and promise to take action.

Instead of waiting 2 days.

By getalife

March 2, 2006 05:51 PM | Link to this

They like Nagin down here because they think he is not corrupt.

This guy is running against him

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2006 06:02 PM | Link to this

finch,

That’s a crock. Nobody needed the President to tell the nation there was a problem in the Gulf. Even you know-it-alls should have been able to figure that out.

By getalife

March 2, 2006 06:12 PM | Link to this

I bet this deal will make Iran and North Korea happy : Critics of the deal also said it would now be more difficult for the United States to persuade Iran and other nations to give up their nuclear weapons ambitions.

By Daniel

March 2, 2006 06:21 PM | Link to this

“Nobody needed to tell the President…” Why was nothng done? Why has the leadership not rallied the nation to their side? What is the plan of recovery? This is not about politics, this is about competence.

By RE

March 2, 2006 06:22 PM | Link to this

Anyone know the rules on Posse Comitatus. I thought if FEMA declares a national disaster the military is allowed to intervine.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 06:23 PM | Link to this

Gov Kathleen Blanco pleaded for Federal aide on August 27! This was in the form of FEMA buses to evacuate NO.

Daniel,

What is the source of this factoid?

From The Times-Picayune “Roundup of buses for storm bungled/ Blanco documents show staff confusion”

By Rymer

March 2, 2006 06:32 PM | Link to this

Prezzie Bill would have been all over this disaster like shrimp on rice! He wouldn’t have even slept for days, not out at fundraising appearances or relaxing on a ranch. He would have gone to Louisianna himself, and stayed on the horn to all his deputies, making SURE every resource was mobilized and coordinated. He would have got himself a crawfish etoufee and a BJ while he was there, but he would have HANDLED it like a man!

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 06:34 PM | Link to this

finch,

You can be reassured to know that the U.N. is on the job, warning countries around the globe about the danger of potential hurricanes.

We should hand FEMA over to the U.N. and henceforth we will all live happily ever after.

By Daniel

March 2, 2006 06:39 PM | Link to this

CNN reported the Govs. office sent a letter to the White House on August 27 for the busses. The article you cited reported the “…promised FEMA busses were expected September 1…” By then it was too late, the damage was already done. The recent video shows the pathetic truth: our president fully briefed a day before he admitted. This was a terribly sad time for our nation.

By RE

March 2, 2006 06:42 PM | Link to this

I found one of GWBs ideas I can support;

“I am pleased that members of Congress are working on earmark reform, because the federal budget has too many special interest projects. (Applause.) And we can tackle this problem together, if you pass the line-item veto. (Applause.) “

Lets put a check on congress again.

By Daniel

March 2, 2006 06:44 PM | Link to this

No. Let us elect a competent government. Republican, liberal, Democrat or conservative, libertarian or socialist; I don’t care. Anyone with talent should apply. I’m tired of excuses and the “blame game”. All the apologists should go to Bay St. Louis, Miss. The president is incompetent. America suffers for it.

By Objective Observer

March 2, 2006 06:45 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

Additional info

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 06:45 PM | Link to this

RE,

[Federal military personnel may also be used pursuant to the Stafford Act, 42 U.S.C., section 5121, in times of natural disaster upon request from a state governor. In such an instance, the Stafford Act permits the president to declare a major disaster and send in military forces on an emergency basis for up to ten days to preserve life and property. While the Stafford Act authority is still subject to the criteria of active versus passive, it represents a significant exception to the Posse Comitatus Act’s underlying principle that the military is not a domestic police force auxiliary](Federal military personnel may also be used pursuant to the Stafford Act, 42 U.S.C., section 5121, in times of natural disaster upon request from a state governor. In such an instance, the Stafford Act permits the president to declare a major disaster and send in military forces on an emergency basis for up to ten days to preserve life and property. While the Stafford Act authority is still subject to the criteria of active versus passive, it represents a significant exception to the Posse Comitatus Act’s underlying principle that the military is not a domestic police force auxiliary.(Federal military personnel may also be used pursuant to the Stafford Act, 42 U.S.C., section 5121, in times of natural disaster upon request from a state governor. In such an instance, the Stafford Act permits the president to declare a major disaster and send in military forces on an emergency basis for up to ten days to preserve life and property. While the Stafford Act authority is still subject to the criteria of active versus passive, it represents a significant exception to the Posse Comitatus Act’s underlying principle that the military is not a domestic police force auxiliary.

Bush offered, Blanco refused.

By Scooter

March 2, 2006 06:47 PM | Link to this

RE, everything I am seeing so far states that Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the Department of Defense from being used. Hence, the Coast Gaurd taking the lead

“The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States Federal Law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed in 1878 after the end of Reconstruction. The Act was intended to prohibit Federal troops from supervising elections in former Confederate states. It generally prohibits Federal military personnel and units of the United States National Guard under Federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress.”

Now look, I will not get into the blame game, cause I don’t expect government of any stripe to operate efficiently. Especially when three layers of government are having to work together. The left can sensationalize things all they want and I will continue to try and tone them down to the truth

By RW-(the original)

March 2, 2006 06:48 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Don’t you realize that those buses were supposed to drive right into the eye of the hurricane and go door to door picking up all the people that stayed behind. Who cares if they couldn’t get fuel and the bridges were out. Reports of armed gangs rampaging through the streets be damned. In Daniels world people should not have to be self-sufficient for 3 hours much less three days.

Good lord Daniel it was a freakin’ natural disaster covering an area the size of Great Britain and it hit the day after you say Blanco wanted all these buses. At that time they had a whole lot full of perfectly good buses that they left to drown.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 06:49 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

First of all, it is not a “recent video”. All the news organizations were given the video after it was made.

Secondly, I’m curious as to where FEMA keeps buses at the ready to evacuate people.

By Scooter

March 2, 2006 06:50 PM | Link to this

RE, everything I am seeing so far states that Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the militry being used

“The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States Federal Law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed in 1878 after the end of Reconstruction. The Act was intended to prohibit Federal troops from supervising elections in former Confederate states. It generally prohibits Federal military personnel and units of the United States National Guard under Federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress.”

Now look, I will not get into the blame game, cause I don’t expect government of any stripe to operate efficiently. Especially when three layers of government are having to work together. The left can sensationalize things all they want and I will continue to try and tone them down to the truth.

Topping and breaching are two entirely different things.

By G Dumbya Bush

March 2, 2006 06:51 PM | Link to this

Great idea, let the UN run FEMA until the next President takes office, even the UN could not be as incompetent as the Bush administration. And thats saying alot.

By Objective Observer

March 2, 2006 07:01 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

I added an excerpt over at your place. I remembered it fondly and looked it up. Hope you don’t mind.

By Pinko's Worst Nightmare

March 2, 2006 07:10 PM | Link to this

Speaking of polls:

The poll, conducted Sep. 12-15, 2005, finds that half of Americans say they have a great deal (13%) or fair amount (37%) of trust and confidence in the mass media, while the other half say they do not have very much trust (37%) or none at all (12%).

That’s right, 87% of Americans have some doubts about the truthfulness of the media. That would be a 13% approval rating, isn’t that funny!

By Midori

March 2, 2006 07:16 PM | Link to this

secondly, I’m curious as to where FEMA keeps buses at the ready to evacuate people.

I work near FEMA.

Their parking lot is full of them.

OTOH, They may be sitting alongside all of those empty trailers sitting in Hope, Arkansas.

By Midori

March 2, 2006 07:17 PM | Link to this

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA,

Even Fox News has the Chimp in Chief in the 30’s.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

By Brian Curtis

March 2, 2006 07:24 PM | Link to this

RE: You’re right on that one; a line-item veto for spending bills is desperately needed.

By Midori

March 2, 2006 07:27 PM | Link to this

oy. veh.

now the idiot is trading nukes for mongos!!! freaking mangos!!!

By DavidU

March 2, 2006 07:49 PM | Link to this

Midori - I cannot stop laughing LOLOL. Yet it does not surprise me (and that’s the sad part)

Loved the way Lou Dobbs delivered the story. He almost broke out laughing at the beginning. LOL

By DavidU

March 2, 2006 07:53 PM | Link to this

The Daily Show has to make fun of the mango story tonight…They just have to.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 07:53 PM | Link to this

RW,

Yep, in Midloriworld and Danielland, they magically round up 500 buses and drive them through hell and high water all the way to New Orleans. I wonder if the bus drivers wear white hats?

By Midori

March 2, 2006 08:00 PM | Link to this

buy danish,

go suck a mango :)

By Midori

March 2, 2006 08:01 PM | Link to this

DavidU,

I think Jon’s shows are all reruns this week.

I know they were the past few days.

I can’t WAIT for him to jump on this!!! :)

By Midori

March 2, 2006 08:04 PM | Link to this

maybe all those hats were mango colored?

By Objective Observer

March 2, 2006 08:27 PM | Link to this

I like to read inspiring words.

‘A Beacon of Liberty’

New York Sun Editorial March 2, 2006

No word yet on whether Senator Kerry attended a speech to a joint session of Congress yesterday by the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, but we hope he did because Mr. Berlusconi delivered a majestic address. Mr. Berlusconi reminded the solons that his country and ours today share a love for liberty in large part because America set Italians free from the grip of the Fascists and then kept the country from falling under the thumb of the Soviet Union. “When I see your flag” Mr. Berlusconi said, “I do not merely see the flag of a great country: above all, I see a symbol, a universal symbol of democracy and freedom.”

Mr. Berlusconi told a story, “of a young man, one who had just graduated from high school. His father took him to a cemetery that was the final resting place for brave young soldiers - young people who had crossed an ocean to restore dignity and liberty to an oppressed people. In showing him those crosses, that father made him vow never to forget the ultimate sacrifice those young American soldiers had made for his freedom. That father made his son vow eternal gratitude to that country.” Mr. Berlusconi was the young man.

By finch

March 2, 2006 08:54 PM | Link to this

RW,

“finch, That’s a crock. Nobody needed the President to tell the nation there was a problem in the Gulf.

With all respect, RW, it is definitely not a crock. Sure, the nation knew there was a “problem in the Gulf”. What the nation needed was a leader who spotlighted the problem and promoted solutions. You know, somebody with a plan.

A President should lead by example in a very public way in times of crisis. Blazing a trail, illuminating difficult situations, spearheading solutions, boldly going where no Nagin or Blanco dares to go. He’s the President, dammit. That’s his job.

President Bush didn’t. He was busy, busy, busy. For 2 days after the levees broke, and everybody knew they had broken, he was apparently too busy to care. Busy promoting Medicare reform. Busy with McCain’s birthday party. Busy trading guitar licks with some B list C&W singer. Busy relaxing on his ranch.

Apathetic, indifferent, callous, oblivious, and busy. Oh, so extremely and exceedingly busy.

By Semper Fi

March 2, 2006 09:02 PM | Link to this

Must be a slow day. Dumocrats are back beating the Katrina drum. I thought you guys already decided it was all because Bush doesn’t like blacks or something stupid like that.

By DavidU

March 2, 2006 09:03 PM | Link to this

Finch - Could not have put it better.

By Semper Fi

March 2, 2006 09:04 PM | Link to this

Just got thru reading last nights comments. Boy, that JC teacher person is a real idot. Somebody needs to take him quail hunting.

By Midori

March 2, 2006 09:08 PM | Link to this

Don’t forget Finch,

he was busy golfing in Utah, too.

By Semper Fi

March 2, 2006 09:09 PM | Link to this

We need to find out who the Prez was when all those good folk died at Donner’s Pass. The blame needs to be placed squarely on his shoulders. Stories need to be rewritten and take out the part that they left late, were not as prepared as they should have been and it was one of the worst storms ever. Nope, it has the be the that Presidents fault, well if he was a Republican, that is.

By Midori

March 2, 2006 09:10 PM | Link to this

speaking of stupid:

Must be a slow day. Dumocrats are back beating the Katrina drum. I thought you guys already decided it was all because Bush doesn’t like blacks or something stupid like that.

typical. just typical.

you could have said, “e, i, e, i, o” and made more sense. or a point.

By Semper Fi

March 2, 2006 09:24 PM | Link to this

I love you Midori, your daily postings give me confidence that my anti-liberal beliefs are justified.

By Midori

March 2, 2006 09:27 PM | Link to this

I’m happy about your confidence, or level of, or lack of, whatever.

But my thing is I’m quite sure you’re trying to make a point — whatever it may be.

But, like your idol Bush, you fail miserably.

Thanks again for the thumbs up, tho.

By Midori

March 2, 2006 09:29 PM | Link to this

P.S. Semper Fi,

I thank God every day that people like you are not on my side.

By Semper Fi

March 2, 2006 09:40 PM | Link to this

MMidori, thanks. I take that as a compliment. I like the E.I.E.I.O response to my bad spelling. Now that was funny.

By Buy Danish

March 2, 2006 10:50 PM | Link to this

Sure, the nation knew there was a “problem in the Gulfâ€?. What the nation needed was a leader who spotlighted the problem and promoted solutions. You know, somebody with a plan…A President should lead by example in a very public way in times of crisis. Blazing a trail, illuminating difficult situations, spearheading solutions

RW,

How finch and Midori want it done:

The hero arrives on horseback

[He makes the speech everyone expects to hear] (http://faultgame.com/images/disaster.wav)

[Instructs FEMA to post universal warning signs] (http://frogstar.com/pics/pics.warnings/z_040901fumes.asp)

Along with detailed evacuation instructions

Anyone can do it!

By dick jurgensen

March 7, 2006 10:01 AM | Link to this

Scathing, scathing, scathing!!! And what a wonderful cartoon. Gandhi is not in the Bible so how would you expect W to know who he is? Come to think of it, Gumby isn’t in the Bible either…..NEVER MIND!!!