Mike Luckovich

By Duh stands for Democrat

September 3, 2007 8:12 AM | Link to this

Wasn’t Giuliani New York’s mayor? And wouldn’t that make him the top fire fighter?

I know if there was something you pinkos could blame on him, he would be.

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My goodness, I’ve never seen a “news” paper article with more lies in it:

A new conservative activist group, Freedom’s Watch, has teamed with former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer to launch a $15 million, five-week advertising campaign featuring military veterans that is aimed at retaining support in Congress for President Bush’s “surge” in Iraq. By Scott Shepard- Urinal

“Activist?”

{{{{One of the ads features a soldier who lost both legs in Fallujah last December warning that “everything I’ve given and sacrificed will mean nothing” if the United States pulls out of Iraq. Another features a woman recalling how she lost an uncle on Sept. 11, 2001……. Nita Chaudhary, an organizer with the liberal online group MoveOn.org, charged in an e-mail that the ads are the product of a “shady White House-linked group”}}}}

So now soldiers and “widows” of the 9/11 attacks are “shady” groups “linked” to the White House, ooooh, how spooky (to a mindless pinko, maybe.)

How quickly things change in the land of the goony liberals.

And notice how MoveOn.org isn’t an “activist” organization.

{{{{“Clearly, the White House knows it could well lose an up or down vote on the war,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, which polls extensively in Florida.}}}}

Write this statement down, save the link, remember it well, while you count the votes in the House extending the surge.

The sole purpose of that sentence, in that article, is meant to influence public opinion using a false portrayal of the facts.

You liberals only have enough balls to make bleating sounds when no one is looking, when it comes time to vote for real, you will meekly fall in line with the White House, guaranteed.

Cont:

By Duh stands for Democrat

September 3, 2007 8:17 AM | Link to this

Cont:

{{{{Indeed, the biggest break in that support came in August when U.S. Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), the former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee}}}}

1) {{{One day after introducing a resolution opposing President Bush’s plan to send 21,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq, W arner used a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee to suggest that generals had not been candid about their progress in building a new Iraqi army.}}}

Warner was never a supporter of the surge, liar.

2) {{{The departure of even a small number of U.S. service members - perhaps 5,000 of the 160,000 troops in Iraq - would send a powerful message throughout the region that time was running out, Warner said.}}}

Gosh, 5000 troops, that’s damn near a surrender.

Maybe Warner withdrawing from the Senate is sending a message to all the rest of you Cowards.

And liars

By Duh stands for Democrat

September 3, 2007 8:22 AM | Link to this

You know, you toady liberals really should work on your math skills:

{{{{BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Civilian deaths from violence in Iraq rose in August, the second highest monthly total, with 1,773 people killed, government data showed on Saturday, just days before the U.S. Congress gets a slew of reports on President George W. Bush’s war strategy.}}}}

Let’s see, if this is the second highest total, 1773, times 54 months for the time we’ve been in Iraq, that’s 95,742 MAXIMUM number of civilians killed.

What happened to the 650,00 that you pinkos were propagandizing?

If the 650,000 had any inkling of truth, that means the first highest monthly total would have to be 535,000.

Anybody want to go out on that limb?

Dullards.

Liars.

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It’s the PMS Vent:

{{{{If our federal government functioned like it should, New Orleans would be better than new today, two years after Katrina. But it doesn’t, and it isn’t.}}}}

127 Billion Dollars provided by the Federal Government to the State and Local governments, an amount that THE STATES REQUESTED and are supposed to be using to rebuild with.

Lowly Mississippi is nearly rebuilt better than before, most likely because they are run by Republicans and not Louisiana democrats.

Duh.

{{{{When I drive I see most Americans breaking the law by speeding. They complain that illegal immigrants are breaking the law. It must be OK to pick and choose which laws you obey.}}}}

Yes, this would be a liberal venting, a Conservative wouldn’t be stupid enough to equate a moving traffic violation with illegally entering the U.S.

Why would we ever trust them with our National Security?

By @@

September 3, 2007 9:10 AM | Link to this

What’s with the high heels?

Well O.K. ml, you’ve got Rudy in a fire”person” get up. So what you’re saying is…

Rudy is a “gay” transvestite…

Transvestites should not serve as fire”persons”…

Women aren’t cut out to serve as fire”men”…

Gays should not serve as fire”persons”…

People shouldn’t have fun with sexuality????

I don’t know Mike, that’s a lot of intolerance for a liberal like you.

By Dusty

September 3, 2007 9:38 AM | Link to this

Luckovich has hit bottom AGAIN. This time to make fun of 9/11 using Giuliani as the clown. Yes, the mayor of NYC and all the heroes including hundreds of dead firemen are SSOOOOO humorous. Luckovich thinks that way.

I hope Luckovich takes a permanent vacation. I am tired of him using our heroes and our troops as some kind of fodder for his liberal anti-American output. He’s a disgrace to the country.

By getalife

September 3, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

Running on the worst attack in our history when he put the command center in a building that already was hit is pathetic.

He spent more time at the Yankees game than ground zero, plus he is liberal.

He is not a hero, ask the real heroes, the firefighters. They hate him.

“The British Army began withdrawing from its last base in Basra’s city center early Monday, a move that will leave Iraq’s second-largest city without foreign forces for the first time since the American-led invasion in 2003.”

Score one for w for stopping the bashing a a good ally but these troops need replaced.

Thge troops have done their job but both governments have failed. Blame them.

By George

September 3, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

Today’s blog reads like something out of One flew out of the Cuckoo’s Nest. Might as well leave the wingnuts to themselves here.

Beam me up Scotty, there is no intelligent life here.

By getalife

September 3, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this

w made a secret trip to Iraq. That alone says the security is the same as the last time he went. He did not fly into Baghdad.

They should send all Iraq supporters to run the country because their government knows it is a death wish to serve.

By Duh stands for Democrat

September 3, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this

Thanks for the heads up, gitmo:

{{{{Bush stood in front of two Humvees near a dusty tarmac of this desert outpost in western Iraq, about 120 miles west of Baghdad, to share his latest views about the war. He urged Congress to wait until they hear testimony from Crocker and Petraeus and see a White House progress report due by Sept. 15 before judging the result of his decision to send an extra 30,000 troops to Iraq. “I urge members of both parties in Congress to listen to what they have to say,” he said. “We shouldn’t jump to conclusions until the general and the ambassador report.” Bush met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other top government officials from Baghdad. He urged the government to respond to progress in Anbar where violence has abated after Sunni tribal leaders and former insurgents teamed up with U.S. troops to hunt down al-Qaida and other extremists. He also met with Sunni tribal sheiks and members of Anbar’s governing body.}}}}

Hahahaha, freakin Bush went to Anbar.

Now all you cowards can’t bleat about it not being safe, geez.

{{{{“I’m going to reassure them that America does not abandon our friends,” he said.}}}}

Can you say “victory?”

By R v D

September 3, 2007 1:54 PM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - A GOP leader Sunday denied a double standard in pushing Sen. Larry Craig to resign after a sex sting guilty plea, while remaining silent over GOP Sen. David Vitter’s involvement with an escort service.

If Bill Clinton were a Republican, Monica Lewinsky would have been a young dude!!!

By getalife

September 3, 2007 2:10 PM | Link to this

duh,

This is why w did not fly into Baghdad

Victory?

Yes, for the Shiites and Iran.

By Goldie

September 3, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this

Rudy will never win in GA, SC, AL, NC, TN, VA, KY, WV, LA, MS, TX, OK, MS, AR, MO, ND, SD, MN, NB, CO, NM, NV, UT, ID, WA, OR, CA, and definitely not NY… did I forget any?

By Goldie

September 3, 2007 2:23 PM | Link to this

“We’ve out-stayed our welcome” in Iraq:

“Even though we’ve out-stayed our welcome, in the big picture of whether we’ve helped or not, I know we have,” said Sgt. Christofer Kitto, a 23-year-old sniper from Altamont, N.Y. “But now it’s just in a state of quagmire. The U.S. time here has come and gone.”

Hell, even Andy-DUH proclaimed last year that “this war is all but over” as he/she was expressing jubilation over the killing of Al-Zarqawi… apparently that was just another one of your & Bush’s folksy “turning the corner” moments, huh, Andy-DUH???

By Midori

September 3, 2007 2:25 PM | Link to this

this picture speaks volumes

Cockroaches scurrying away from the light into the darkness.

By getalife

September 3, 2007 2:31 PM | Link to this

Midori,

He called them the A team.

I guess cheney is now the B team.

Looks like they are scared to fly into Baghdad.

By Midori

September 3, 2007 2:46 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

my only question is: which one is hiding the plastic turkey?

By @@

September 3, 2007 2:49 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

Bush flew into “Sunni” territory for a reason. Iran is watching. Neighboring Arab states, fearful of Iran’s shiites are watching.

By getalife

September 3, 2007 3:35 PM | Link to this

It was a photo op with w as the turkey.

Mission Accomplished for the Shiites and Iran in Baghdad.

They have purged the Sunnis and rule Baghdad.

By Duh stands for Democrat

September 3, 2007 3:50 PM | Link to this

Gitmo: Why are you whining about Iraq when there is so much left to do at home?:

{{{{There has been no shortage of aid. The Washington Times reports federal spending on the Gulf Coast in the last two years ($127 billion) has exceeded total spending on the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after World War II (in inflation-adjusted dollars). More than $7 billion has been allocated by the federal government to rebuild levees and repair the flood protection system for New Orleans, and President Bush plans to seek another $7.6 billion in next year’s budget to (ahem) complete the work.}}}}

{{{{A disaster like Katrina should be prompt a sober evaluation of costs and benefits. What was a huge city doing below sea level on the hurricane-prone Gulf Coast anyway? “New Orleans naturally wants to be a lake,” Timothy Kusky, St. Louis University professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, told Time magazine. Only reckless development transformed a former cypress swamp into the Lower 9th Ward. And only a complex system of levees and pumps kept the basin dry even in the best of times.}}}}

By getalife

September 3, 2007 4:02 PM | Link to this

No whining, just the facts jacks.

The Times?

Geez.

By getalife

September 3, 2007 4:13 PM | Link to this

It does not matter, the gop will never vote for withdrawal.

Only a Dem President can get them out of that hell hole.

By Duh stands for Democrat

September 3, 2007 4:31 PM | Link to this

{{{{September 3, 2007 — FALLUJAH - Jersey rules. The Marines of 1st Platoon, Fox Company, 3rd Battal ion, 3rd Marines aren’t living large, but they’re making a huge difference. Bunking in a police precinct headquarters in Fallujah, they’re at the forward edge of our current successes in Iraq. You’d expect complaints. I didn’t hear one. And talking to three Jersey boys, I was surprised to hear just how positive they felt about the mission. “I’d do it again in a heartbeat,” Lance Cpl. Justin Blitzstein of West Milford told me. Self-assured and ready for anything, he added, “Anybody who doesn’t think we should be here should see the difference we’ve made in the way these people live. And everybody here’s a volunteer. We want to be here.”}}}}

Semper Fi.

By Duh stands for Democrat

September 3, 2007 4:52 PM | Link to this

Craig is outing himself…..as a liberal democrat, hahaha:

{{{{Washington has learned, after eight years of tutoring by the Clintons, that politicians’ words have to be parsed carefully. What does Craig mean that he “intends” to resign? Does he hold out some small hope that if his guilty plea is overturned quickly enough, he can recant and stay? Or, as some wags have suggested, is he planning to switch parties?}}}}

“Switch?” Hell, he’s already a pervert, that’s as close as you can get to being a democrat with out saying so.

By getalife

September 3, 2007 5:14 PM | Link to this

No duh, he is your pervert.

Own him.

Geez.

By getalife

September 3, 2007 5:50 PM | Link to this

You know, Specter was telling him they are above the law and could get way with being a mens room pervert. It is his perverted word against a police officer.

That is some party you got there duh.

Stand proud and own it.

Geez.

By rushncap

September 3, 2007 6:05 PM | Link to this

Same old, same old. @@ and Dusters whining and b!tching as usual about Mike’s cartoons while looking at them and posting on his blog for hours each day. I think hypocrisy is now a required part of the far right. I can just imagine the 2 of them sitting in a dirty strip bar somewhere, in the front row, muttering to each other “This is so sick. This is so disgusting. This is ruining families and lives. I hope I have another dollar bill…”

By getalife

September 3, 2007 6:10 PM | Link to this

duh,

You are in the Klan right?

Check this out

White Flour!

Geez.

By @@

September 3, 2007 6:35 PM | Link to this

rushncap:

There’s a reason ml publishes his work with a “comment box”. He wants people to……uh……comment?

Care to point out where I whined or b*** up ^^^ there.

A strip bar? Me?

I’ve been invited to friends’ birthday bash’s, bachelorette parties at male strip clubs but have never gone. It’s not the kind of thing I find entertaining.

AND I would NEVER give THEM a dollar for dancing. That’s a dollar I could give to a homeless person on the street corner. Put that dollar with many more, and I could donate ALL those dollars to a worthwhile cause.

By getalife

September 3, 2007 6:40 PM | Link to this

I contribute to their college funds.

By rushncap

September 3, 2007 6:42 PM | Link to this

Wow, @@, you’re so good, you’re so amazing, you’re so perfect… where can I empty out my savings so as to erect a large enough statue to you? Certainly no structural material could support a statue large enough to adequately represent your opinion of yourself, but I figure with such marvelous advances in materials science we could at least approach it.

You spent your whole 9:10 post b!tching about how Mike was so unfair to poor ol’ Rudy, and, in a burst of illogic that must’ve made some sense in your head, how he’s so “intolerant”. You’re a crybaby with an superiority complex. My, I bet that makes for interesting dinner-table conversation.

By @@

September 3, 2007 6:45 PM | Link to this

Good for you Getalife. Some of those young women and young men ARE working their way through college.

YOU pay to be entertained and help THEM out at the same time.

By @@

September 3, 2007 6:53 PM | Link to this

No, rushncap. We all have choices, I just choose to help out in a different way.

Now who’s whining?

Be specific…what are you whining about?

Think about it before you post it.

By gmk

September 4, 2007 8:14 AM | Link to this

OK, so I’m new to this blog and could care less about anyone’s politics here, but does this “Duh” person have a job or a life? I mean, WOW!, how much time time did it take to write all of that? Seems a bit of a waste to me

By Duh stands for Democrats

September 4, 2007 8:38 AM | Link to this

{{{{By gmk September 4, 2007 8:14 AM OK, so I’m new to this blog and could care less about anyone’s politics here, but does this “Duh” person have a job or a life?}}}}

gmk: Why would it matter to you what I do with my life? Am I not meeting your strict liberal standards for human conduct? Does this upset you? Do you wish that all free people in America would submit to your idea of how they should live their lives?

Besides which, I don’t find reading and typing to be some monumental challenge, like you obviously do.

Bozo.

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{{{{Nearly two-thirds of the public believe ministers are using environmental fears as an excuse to raise tax revenue, according to a poll.}}}}

You reckon?

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{{{{Incredibly, only 3 percent of the nation gives Congress a positive rating on its handling of the war. Congress has lost the hawks, and the owls, and the doves. No one trusts its leadership on the war. And George W. smells it. He no longer fears the power of Congress, and his rhetoric suggests he is contemptuous of it. He is brimming with self-assurance that he can break any Democratic attempt to impose deadlines for troop withdrawal and force Congress to cough up all the funds he demands.}}}}

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{{{{Adgie said he received a report Monday that Al Qaeda in Iraq beheaded a 12-year-old boy in the middle of the street because his father was cooperating with the Americans. “That’s the level of evil we’re dealing with here,” he said.}}}}

If America runs from this evil without decisively defeating it, we will be the biggest cowards in the history of mankind.

By George

September 4, 2007 8:38 AM | Link to this

gmk, it make perfect sense when you realize that Duh is on welfare and has nothing to do but sit at home and blog all day.

Just keep working and paying into that fund so Andy Duh can keep sucking it dry while he insults you. Sounds fair to him.

By Duh stands for Democrats

September 4, 2007 8:52 AM | Link to this

{{{{By George September 4, 2007 8:38 AM gmk, it make perfect sense when you realize that Duh is on welfare and has nothing to do but sit at home and blog all day. Just keep working and paying into that fund so Andy Duh can keep sucking it dry while he insults you. Sounds fair to him.}}}}

Well, well, Georgie Girl is noticeably upset this morning, it must be because some people in the world aren’t confined to a long day at the short order grill, like he is.

Jealousy eating at you George?

Hey, maybe if you liberals would quit pushing your socialist agenda on the United States, allowed more people to keep their own money and be successful, like me, then you wouldn’t be mired in the daily grind of working for the government’s tax giveaway.

Bozo.

By gmk

September 4, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this

<<< Duh: Why would it matter to you what I do with my life? Am I not meeting your strict liberal standards for human conduct? Does this upset you? Do you wish that all free people in America would submit to your idea of how they should live their lives?

Besides which, I don’t find reading and typing to be some monumental challenge, like you obviously do. >>>

Duh, Wow! Did I hit a nerve or something? I’m sorry if I did…really… Or, is it that your conscience is getting to you seeing as how you’re spending all of your employer’s time blogging instead of being a productive employee. Hmm… Liberal or conservative has nothing to do with how you spend your time, but your response back to me does seem quite liberal.

By Duh stands for Democrats

September 4, 2007 9:03 AM | Link to this

{{{{By gmk September 4, 2007 8:55 AM Duh, Wow! Did I hit a nerve or something? I’m sorry if I did…really… Or, is it that your conscience is getting to you seeing as how you’re spending all of your employer’s time blogging instead of being a productive employee. Hmm… Liberal or conservative has nothing to do with how you spend your time, but your response back to me does seem quite liberal.}}}}

gmk: Since we are in the midst of “invasion of other people’s privacy morning,” may I ask how a dedicated little socialist worker bee like you can find time to comment on a political blog?

Is it break time at the Worker’s Paradise?

My crystal ball doesn’t seem to be working as well as your’s is.

By gmk

September 4, 2007 9:51 AM | Link to this

<< DUH: Since we are in the midst of “invasion of other people’s privacy morning,” may I ask how a dedicated little socialist worker bee like you can find time to comment on a political blog? >>

I’m glad you asked, Duh. I’m taking a well-deserved week off from my corporate job at one of the world’s largest software companies. Long weekend and all, ya know… Normally, I would be managing projects, and not (like you) wasting away hour after hour droning on and on about this and that for your own silly ego. I just find it really curious that you choose to waste your company’s time and money blogging away for no apparent end. Seems very sad, really. Do you think you’re somehow making a difference? You’re not. Do you think you’re changing anyone’s mind? You’re not.

BTW, Despite your posts, you’re comments back to me indicate that you may have left political leanings. Isn’t it the GOP that - as you say - “invade people’s privacy” (a.k.a. Patriot Act)? Wait…are you being outed here? Me thinks thou doest protest too much!

By mm

September 4, 2007 9:55 AM | Link to this

Wow, it looks like the libs have finally grown tired of the braindead postings of the wingnuts.

I guess everyone is tired of killing a flea with a sledgehammer. The wingnut rants today are desperate, dilusional, and as always, juvenile.

Duh, @@, Dusty, etc. you folks are no longer good for a laugh. Now I only feel pity.

All good captains will go down with the ship.

Gurgle, gurgle. Say hello to Nemo for me.

By Prophetess Julie

September 4, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this

Duh suffers from a serious internet addiction along with some other serious personality defects.

It won’t take you long to just scroll down and ignore his posts.

Please leave him alone. This blog is his life and is very important to him. Why take that away from him?

He truly means no harm and this blog is not the same without him.

Just scroll down if he bothers you.

By Duh stands for Democrats

September 4, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this

{{{{By gmk September 4, 2007 9:51 AM Seems very sad, really. Do you think you’re somehow making a difference? You’re not. Do you think you’re changing anyone’s mind? You’re not.}}}}

Yes, I can see why you are so concerned with me, figuring that I’m “making no difference.”

I too often find myself babbling about things that don’t bother me, for instance, I don’t complain about my neighbor’s dog barking too much, no, I complain when it’s being to quite.

Me and you got a lot in common, you know it, gmt?

Geez.

By gmk

September 4, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this

Julie, Duh doesn’t bother me. I could care less about his silly anti-social web personality. But…it IS kind of hard to “just scroll down” when his posts drone on page after blessed page. Curious that you would be defending his behavior. Is he cast as the evil villian or are you his Robin, of sorts? I don’t know either of you.. I just know that I’m going to get outside, do some landscaping, and enjoy my day off…that’s being a lot more productive than Duh on his best day.

By getalife

September 4, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this

In a new book about w he spewed, he would not be hanging out at the UN like President Clinton.

They would kick him out. President Clinton tries to help people while w tries to murder them.

He said he will live in Dallas so I called my brother who lives there and he said w is not wanted there. Told him to move up North where he belongs.

They hate fake cowboys in Texas.

Geez.

By Patriotic Foreskin

September 4, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this

There’s nothing wrong with turning a cartoon blog into a myspace chatroom, just dont expect anyone to read it.

Today’s cartoon was okay, Guilliani cross dressing as a fireman hero of 911. He’s going to wrap himself up in the war on terror and be a real threat to Hillary’s chances for election.

The danger is that the white house could spin the Iraq War away from reality so it looks like being tough will provide homeland security. We still dont get any real news about what’s happening. The occasional reporter gives impressive accounts of patrols finding insurgents or al queda bodies, but mostly we get Katie Courek asking Gen Patreaus what kind of tree he would be if he could be a tree.

It’s hopeless. We are sitting ducks for the neo-kings sitting on their neo-thrones in the neo-stalls.

Just when we thought the Right would crack down on pork, they “wood” their cracks down on porcelain.

‘muff said

By Midori

September 4, 2007 10:53 AM | Link to this

GMK,

You have me laughing my rear off!!

it does boggle the mind, doesn’t it?

By Midori

September 4, 2007 10:55 AM | Link to this

Getalife!!!

get thee over to Amazon :)

By Goldie

September 4, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

Even that snake Paul Bremer knows that Bush is a snake:

The dismantling of the Iraqi Army in the aftermath of the American invasion is now widely regarded as a mistake that stoked rebellion among hundreds of thousands of former Iraqi soldiers and made it more difficult to reduce sectarian bloodshed and attacks by insurgents. In releasing the letters, Mr. Bremer said he wanted to refute the suggestion in Mr. Bush’s comment that Mr. Bremer had acted to disband the army without the knowledge and concurrence of the White House.

Is Bush always playing dumb, or is he simply dumb???

By getalife

September 4, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this

“LA Times: Surge Has Failed.”

Ya think, there is no Iraq government.

w had the A team and should stay to govern the country he destroyed but had to go give away more of America in Australia.

I tried to tell you all the economic numbers are lies. It is what they do and what they are best at.

The market is way over priced and will crash. There will be a recession for the next President.

By getalife

September 4, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this

Midori,

I will pass.

If true, Rove was right about cheney.

cheney was a huge mistake.

By Bosch

September 4, 2007 11:04 AM | Link to this

I like this cartoon - is it time to get out the 9/11 fear card already? Yes, what’s really sad, is that it will most likely work. I’ve been really hesitant to say anything about my predictions about who will be in the White House in ‘08, but I bet we’ll have more of the same.

The Democrats don’t have a great candidate, and in order to win, the candidate will have to be just that - great, and they don’t have it yet. All these guys have too much baggage except for Obama, and they’ll play the “inexperienced card” on him - or “do you want to trust our lives and the war on terror to someone so inexperienced” card - if you know what I mean.

But, yes, I see the ol’ fear card will soon rear it’s ugly head, and the sad thing is most of the country will buy into it and be scared sh!tless by the time the election rolls around.

Also, I think the high heels thing in the cartoon is kind of clever. So, is Luckovich saying that Rudy is trying to sway the gay vote? Or, does he mean that Rudy is really in the closet? So many things that could represent.

By Fred Warren

September 4, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this

Bush is simply letting others write his words based on polling data, like you would do if you were prez.

Just let Bush have his little war, arent’ you sick of talking about it?

I mean, so what? War, what is it good for? Absolutely mutton! That’s right, the price of mutton, lamb and goatcheese has dropped since we invaded Iraq.

Now, dont you feel silly you squawked about a little police action in a land nobody can even pronounce or find on a map?

Peace, out.

By Midori

September 4, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

Jesus,

Using “Rove” and “right” in the same sentence frightens and confuses me.

By Goldie

September 4, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this

Not to emulate his father or other former presidents, Bush is planning to “replenish the ol’ coffers” after his retirement:

“I can just envision getting in the car, getting bored, going down to the ranch,” he says. He also has big plans for making money. “I’ll give some speeches, to replenish the ol’ coffers,” says Mr Bush, who is already estimated to be worth $20m. “I don’t know what my dad gets - it’s more than 50-75 [thousand dollars a speech], and “Clinton’s making a lot of money”.

I can’t imagine anyone wanting to pay Bush Jr. ANYTHING until many years in the future. Imagine anyone wanting to pay him to give speeches — that’s just hilarious!

By Bosch

September 4, 2007 11:08 AM | Link to this

Getalife -

“The market is way over priced and will crash. There will be a recession for the next President.”

Good point, which is why I’m tempted to vote Republican next time. I would also like to see the party that started this war, finish it, with all it’s reprocussions, they need to own it. Just think how folks (especially here) will howl if that happens if a Democrat is in office.

And those of us who always say, “you can’t blame Clinton” won’t be able to say a thing without looking extremely hypocritical.

By Will Jones

September 4, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this

Anyone not think for a “NY sec.” Mobbed-up adulterer cross-dressing papist Rudy did not know well and good the asbestos-laden WTC towers were going to be “pulled?”

Bush is a closet-queen, too…do you not get his “birds of feather” willing to profit from GIs’ and our blood? Craig was traveling with this “crowd.” Romney, Kyl, toupee-wearing senators and congressmen. Turn on your gaydar or admit your treason or abject stupidity.

By getalife

September 4, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this

I know Midori, it was painful to type.

By Fred Warren

September 4, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

Anyone hear Gates give his modest and tentative nod toward a positive statement about the surge?

Wow, it’s like he stuck his little baby toe in the water and kept it there for the cameras even though it turned blue.

Great stuff. Gates is a hoot.

By Goldie

September 4, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this

Bosch— re your comment about Obama: I agree, but does anyone believe that John Edwards is more “experienced” than Obama? What specific kind of experience is it that we’re looking for anyway, I wonder…

Is it 10 to 20 years working in Congress or the Senate? Is it being a “mayor” of a big city and standing on a heap of rubble with a megaphone? Is it being a governor of a very progressive state and then having to shed everything you did while being the governor of that state?

I’m just saying.

By Bosch

September 4, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this

Goldie, Can you seriously imagine actually going to hear a speech from Dubya? When I hear his voice on television, it makes me nauseous (sp?). Ew, I just got a shiver thinking about it.

By Fred Warren

September 4, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this

Just when we thought the porn-again evangelical right would crack down on pork, they “wood” their cracks down on porcelain.

By Bosch

September 4, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

Goldie, Well, that’s kind of my point. Hillary and Edwards (like Kerry) were “Washington Insiders” and Obama is inexperienced.

I agree with you, who knows what anyone expects for “experience.” It’s all so hypocritical.

IMHO, the Republicans, however, seem to do a better job of brining that issue to light. They use their spin doctors and their fear cards and the Democrats are usually left standing around wondering what the hell happened?

I’ve always thought that the 2000 election was Gore’s loss - he should have won that election by a landslide - a two time VP - who was a decent likable guy (by most people’s standards, anyway)?

Rove manipulated and lied and it got Bush all the way to the White House and the sad thing is, he got away with it. Rove is a manipulative genius and the majority of Ameicans are dim-witted enough to fall for this kind of manipulation without the knowledge or willingness to see Bush and his ilk for what they really are.

By Duh stands for Democrat

September 4, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this

The 6% Professional Cry Babies have given us a couple of excellent examples of why liberalism should be labeled a disease:

{{{{By gmk September 4, 2007 10:27 AM I just know that I’m going to get outside, do some landscaping, and enjoy my day off…that’s being a lot more productive than Duh on his best day.}}}}

This is the “know it all even though you don’t have a clue liberal” symptom, where liberals assume things in real life based on their extremely limited knowledge of real life.

Exactly how would this overwrought whiner gmt know anything about my situation, hell, I could be retired, a wounded war veteran, getting paid to do this for all you know.

It’s just like a sick liberal to transpose things they saw in some cartoon or a comedy like “Inconvenient Truth” on the rest of us, aren’t they so gullible, so naive?

{{{{By Patriotic Foreskin September 4, 2007 10:49 AM There’s nothing wrong with turning a cartoon blog into a myspace chatroom, just dont expect anyone to read it.}}}}

This is a classic example of the “Johny Girl Edwards Shameless Hypocrisy” syndrome, a liberal not examining their own conduct to make sure that they don’t scold you and I for the exact same things they do.

Nobody, NOBODY posts more spam or nonsense than Polly does and most of it only he understands, and if you want any proof of that fact make notice of how no one ever responds to him, ever.

Everybody responds to me, hehehehe.

Cause they know I’m right.

By Gates Rocks!!!

September 4, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this

Anyone see Gates give his “optimistic” statement about Iraq. This was high comedy, my fine friends. “I’ve never been this optimistic about the war since I took over as Secretary”.

I like Gates. I trust him. His candor has earned him the respect he deserves.

I cant believe you uber-pundits missed this, but then, you have been my-spacing and chatrooming alot, and that’s important too. (analchord crouches so as to hide the fact that he’s pretending NOT to be scratching his azz)

But dont expect anyone to read you. They come for me. If they want myspace, they’ll go to myspace.

‘muff said. word. peace out. and then there were three. deux et machina. coup de grace. ten four.

By Duh stands for Democrat

September 4, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this

{{{{As for the new strategy there is little the Democrats appear willing to say about it. Certainly Senator Clinton will say it is a failure, but she’ll do so only to appease those elements of the Democratic Party who are impervious to reason. But what will the Democrats, a party that faulted the White House for four years for failing to listen to our generals, say when the general in charge of Iraq says we can win? And when the president has made such a point of listening to the generals himself. And not only the generals, but the GIs, men and women in our uniform, who were sent into battle by the president and the Congress and who, by dint of extraordinary skill and courage, have begun to turn the tide.}}}}

By Screwy Wabbit

September 4, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

Just when we were all convinced that the porn-again Right would crack down on their pork, they “wood” their cracks right down on the porcelain.

Is that like a palindrome?

By Screwy Wabbit

September 4, 2007 12:38 PM | Link to this

Just listen to Gates, and you’ll be able to decipher the white house spin on the surge.

Political Science 101 test

Question #1. Do counter-insurgency techniques work?

1). yes, they’ve always worked, they’re actually the modern equivalent of siege warfare.

2). No, the surge is simply a beefed up police patrol that lowers crime via more visability of the patrol officers. The hoods simply go two blocks down and three blocks over.

3). Maybe, it depends on how you define “works”. It works where it works, and doesn’t work where it doesn’t work. It’s an open ended solution that requires open ended occupation of surge areas, (where it works), unless it doesnt’ work in the areas it doesn’t work.

4). I’m more optimisitic than I was before about the war in Iraq.

By AmVet

September 4, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this

{I can’t imagine anyone wanting to pay Bush Jr. ANYTHING until many years in the future. Imagine anyone wanting to pay him to give speeches — that’s just hilarious!}

On the surface, I would agree, Goldie. But don’t forget there are still some neo-con think tanks (is that an oxymoron?) out there and he would always be a big draw at Young Republican gatherings where I suppose they all sit around and proclaim that God is on their side and how if they can just do a better job of getting their message out there, they can eliminate the non-Republican scourge, once and for all.

BTW, I never hear anything about them anymore, but is Senator Craig a Log Cabin Republican?

By N-GA

September 4, 2007 12:49 PM | Link to this

I think Shrub will be spending a lot of time making sure that his next destination won’t extradite him to Belgium. Dodging international warrants might be a full-time job.

By Jesus

September 4, 2007 12:49 PM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By Midori

September 4, 2007 12:57 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

speaking of sElection 2000, and the media’s role, check this out

By getalife

September 4, 2007 1:05 PM | Link to this

“Cause they know I’m right.”

Name one time you were right duh.

You stated that faux opinion will back Hillary.

They back Rudy and attack lazy fred. Just one example of being dead wrong and there are too many to list.

Geez.

By Screwy Wabbit

September 4, 2007 1:08 PM | Link to this

Just when we all thought that the porn-again Right would crack down on their pork, they “wood” their cracks down on porcelain.

Is that like a haiku wrapped inside a palindrome locked in a acronym stuffed within an anagram?

By Midori

September 4, 2007 1:09 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

What I wanted you to see at the Amazon link I posted was some of the tags associated with the book:

worst president ever (21) war criminal (17) chickenhawk (15) joke president (15) moron (15) clown (14) dumb (13) idiot (11) imbecile (10) bird cage liner (8) cretin (6)

By getalife

September 4, 2007 1:20 PM | Link to this

Hahahaha, I missed that Midori.

Ouch.

By Screwy Wabbit

September 4, 2007 1:21 PM | Link to this

I adore Midori.

By Midori

September 4, 2007 1:26 PM | Link to this

I’ll just bet this is what Andy refers to as “entertainment”

By Bosch

September 4, 2007 1:29 PM | Link to this

Midori, Thanks for the link, that was an interesting article. Sad, but true - the election was his to loose. If he would have had a manipulation maniac like Rove, things would be different.

By Betty

September 4, 2007 1:35 PM | Link to this

Oh my God, Midori? NO!

Buy Danish is one of the best posters here. By far. Her commitment to the truth is both honorable and admirable. Her passion transcends all political boundaries. We are lucky to have her.

We miss you BD, please come back to your home away from home.

By getalife

September 4, 2007 1:35 PM | Link to this

Andy was at the Klan rally and the clowns screamed White Flour!

Andy attacked the clowns and was arrested.

Bwa.

By B Charles

September 4, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this

Yawn, Bush Bad, Guliani Bad, Rove Bad, Rupublicans bad, Yadda, Yadda, Yadda. Mike, your a one trick pony.

By Bosch

September 4, 2007 1:49 PM | Link to this

Britain came one step closer to disengaging from Iraq Monday as its troops withdrew from the city of Basra. Meanwhile a war of words is emerging between the US and the UK, with senior British officers slamming the US lack of post-invasion planning as “intellectually bankrupt.”

Didn’t Dusty have such great and wonderful things to say about the new British PM? I wonder what her and the other wingnuts still think about him.

By Midori

September 4, 2007 2:01 PM | Link to this

GAO’s report on Iraq’s progress on benchmarks

By Dusty

September 4, 2007 2:27 PM | Link to this

This blog is the prime example of Shakspeares’ true words..”Much ado about nothing.”

Not one single blogger here has ever done anything in life anywhere near the achievements of George W. Bush.

Oh yeah, you have made a whole stooge list of things he supposedly can’t do. The concocted liberal litany never stops. Yet he is right there leading us.

Bush is an honorable man who has been elected to the office of governor of Texas and twice as president of the USA. He leads our fight against terrorism even as libs whine “traitor” and “run”.

You liberals hate Bush’s success because he is a conservative Republican and beat you super-libs in every election. And you are such POOR LOSERS!!

Keep on showing it—cheap cartoons, dirty jokes, “cute” links, false accusations, name calling, ugly lies about families and even wishing the USA to lose the war in Iraq.

So lie, cry and poke fun at our nation’s heroes. Not one of them is a liberal Democrat or didn’t you notice?

By getalife

September 4, 2007 2:30 PM | Link to this

This is Obama’s downfall

I will pass on him.

Geez.

By Midori

September 4, 2007 2:31 PM | Link to this

Translating Dusty:

SNAP

CRACKLE

POP

BUSH GOOD, LIKE AN IDIOT WARMONGER SHOULD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Midori

September 4, 2007 2:36 PM | Link to this

Yo, Crusty — you buy your copy yet??

By getalife

September 4, 2007 2:38 PM | Link to this

Craig, Vitter and Foley are your heroes.

No thanks.

Geez.

By getalife

September 4, 2007 2:48 PM | Link to this

Betty,

Your hero cut and run like Rove and Ganzo.

Get over it.

Geez.

By Goldie

September 4, 2007 2:50 PM | Link to this

{{The concocted liberal litany never stops. Yet he is right there leading us.}}

Dust-For-Brains, yep— he’s right there leading us over a big cliff, and you’re so very happy to take the credit for causing this disaster in the Middle East. How do you even sleep at night? Do you still believe that we Americans are able to force “freedom” down other countries’ throats??? And you still think that we can make the Iraqis stop fighting each other?

It’s because of stupid people like YOU that we’re in this no-win situation right now and you’ve got as much blood on yourself as Bush does!

By gmk

September 4, 2007 2:53 PM | Link to this

<<>>

It was great to get outside, do a bit of landscaping, get some exercise and enjoy an awesome vacation day away from the corporate rat-race. Let’s see, Duh, what have you done today….Hmmmm…Well, I see you starting posting your drivel at 8:12AM this morning, and amazingly it continues even now!!! How fulfilling it must be to spend hour upon hour copying-and-pasting, cutting-and-pasting!!! Your cup must truly runneth over!!!

Imagine when you first learned there were keyboard shortcuts! Oh, the thrill of being able to Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V!!! It must have made your day so much more productive! Why, you could post three times as much twaddle as before!!

Sir, I implore you. Open the blinds of your pathetic little apartment, get out of bed, and get a job….you know, the kind that actually pays money. You do know what money is, I hope? In short, join (as you so you so elequently put it) “real life”. It will enable us hard-working, mortgage-paying, church-going, law-abiding family types get you and your brood off the welfare dime.

By Goldie

September 4, 2007 2:53 PM | Link to this

{{Yadda, Yadda, Yadda. Mike, your a one trick pony.}}

Buyer’s remorse, B Charles? You still have your lips still stuck to Bush’s patooty, do ya?

By Midori

September 4, 2007 2:54 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

Dusty needs to get off her rear, off this blog, and into the library.

Maybe the walk would do her good.

Once there, she “could” try to enlighten herself.

By Goldie

September 4, 2007 3:01 PM | Link to this

Getalife @ 2:30— I believe that Iran has been considered America’s enemy since the ayatollahs took over in ‘79? I’m willing to support a president that will put a halt to their nuclear bomb capabilities, but I also want to see more info on how that will be accomplished. Do we just turn our heads away from any threats coming out of Tehran, or do we deal with it?

By Goldie

September 4, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this

Midori @ 2:54— I get the feeling that Dusty-Brain is staying as far away as she can from libraries and enlightenment — ugh, such liberal stuff!

By Dusty

September 4, 2007 3:14 PM | Link to this

Well, Bosch was wondering how I felt about the new British PM Brown.

I think he is doing very well, thank you. He is doing what he said he would do. He told Pres. Bush that the British were planning to withdraw from Basra very soon. And that is what he did, a man of his word.

Do I want to find fault with the British? No way. They joined us in Iraq in 2003 with forty thousand troops. Their mission in Basra was to train the Iraqis to protect themselves. Now they are “giving space” to the Iraqis to “do their thing”. We can thank the British for being with us and hope that their plan for Iraqi independence will be successful in Basra. Only time will tell.

As to PM Brown, it is always easier to work with a man who tells the truth and doesn’t flip-flop later. Too bad Democrats in Congress have never learned that principle.

By mm

September 4, 2007 3:20 PM | Link to this

Dusty at 2:27,

Thanks Dusty, I thought you clowns had run out of posts which make me laugh.

When a movie is made about the presidency of Bush, Bush will be played by Will Ferrell.

Hero. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

By Midori

September 4, 2007 3:29 PM | Link to this

mm,

I suppose a hero is more than just a sandwich :)

By gmk

September 4, 2007 3:39 PM | Link to this

< Dusty: They [British] joined us in Iraq in 2003 with forty thousand troops >

Are you sure that’s dust you’re sniffing? According to the UK Defence Dept (armedforces.co.uk), the most troops GB ever had in Iraq was 9000 - roughly 8000 of which were in Southern Iraq with the main combat unit numbering about 5500.

…just saying that if you’re going to state something as fact, you should at least do a reality check beforehand.

By Duh stands for Democrats

September 4, 2007 3:43 PM | Link to this

Things like this are why I didn’t marry a lib woman:

{{{{By gmk September 4, 2007 2:53 PM Well, I see you starting posting your drivel at 8:12AM this morning, and amazingly it continues even now!!! How fulfilling it must be to spend hour upon hour copying-and-pasting, cutting-and-pasting!!!}}}}

Nag, nag, nag, just like Hillary Clinton, geez.

What’s really funny, I’ll bet I made more money than he did today.

{{{{By gmk September 4, 2007 9:51 AM I’m glad you asked, Duh. I’m taking a well-deserved week off from my corporate job at one of the world’s largest software companies.}}}}

I missed that one earlier because my operating system software became unstable and crashed. It got it back up and running but it is slow as usual. I notice from my firewall that I have a rather large amount of hackers attempting to subvert the substandard security features of my software.

And isn’t this blog software a real screamer?

Maybe YOU should get back to work, gmt, no?

By rushncap

September 4, 2007 3:47 PM | Link to this

gmk — if Dusters started checking facts, she’d have to shut up and slink away in shame. You don’t want that, do you?

By Midori

September 4, 2007 3:48 PM | Link to this

gmk,

like her like minded wingnut in arms, Andy, Crusty likes to pull “facts” out of her a$$.

I suppose it’s big enough, that’s why she keeps going there.

By getalife

September 4, 2007 3:57 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

Iran is another third world country that will never attack us.

They have become a power in the region thanks to w and his axis of evil rhetoric like Iamanutjob’s wiping Israel off the map and the Iraq occupation.

He knows Israel has nukes and they will take Iran off the map.

I think we should work on our own country and stop pretending to rule the world.

We don’t. The real threats are the same ole threats, Russia and China. Especially China now that they can nuke our economy.

I am surprised you have not had enough war and do not want diplomatic solutions.

Obama is probably trying to act tough since he is a Dem and they are known to be spineless but enough with the war mongering on Iran.

He lost me and many others with this rhetoric. This is w and cheney rhetoric. I will pass on another w and cheney stupid war with a third world country.

Geez.

By Fatina

September 4, 2007 4:00 PM | Link to this

Gates had the line of the weekend about his optimistic view of the surge. Inspired.

Of course it went over everyone here’s head. That’s the shame of it and why I’m so lonely. You uber-pundits really dont get it, and you all read at about a tenth grade level, as such, and that’s so discouraging to someone like me, such as it is, who reads at a level so high, as such, that the electromagnometric spetrographic prism explodes every time they try to measure it, as such, including the children in asia and south africa. man.

Yes, just once I’d like to find a person who could riff with me. Dont hack, I’ll smell it a mile off. Besides, I watch all the comedians and read all the newspapers and hear all the talk shows, trust me, I’ll know, and then you’ll just reinforce my opinion of you as congenital chatrats, myspacing up every blog you can get your furry litt