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October 22, 2006

Why?

TODAY'S STRIP

Poor Carmen. Every time she sees a sunset, she's *haunted* by questions like "Why are we here?" and "What is our purpose?" (I put asteriks around "haunted" because I thought it was kinda creepy that an eight year old would use that word. Why can't she "wonder" or heck even "ponder?")

Anywho, doesn't she know there's a simple answer for a Good Christian Republican? It's whatever God's plan is for her. Yeesh. Somebody needs to go to church on Sunday mornings instead of sitting on a rock talking about her love of Tucker Carlson.

When I watch a sunset, here is a short list of questions I have:

- Why did we invade Iraq?
- Why doesn't anybody talk about Afghanistan anymore?
- Why did gas prices "mysteriously" drop right before the elections?
- Why doesn't anybody talk about mine safety anymore?
- Whatever happened to the Republicans' plan for illegal immigration?
- Why is it guys like Bob Ney and Mark Foley get away with sneaking into rehab after they've either pleaded guilty to corruption or sexually preying on teenage boys?
- Why haven't there been any investigations into potential vote tampering with electronic voting machines?
- When did Dennis Hastert know about Foley, and why does he keep going around saying he told Foley resign when he claims he didn't hear about it until after Foley left?
- Why would President Bush campaign with a man who admitted to having a mistress and settled out of court with her when she sued him for abusing her?
- Whatever happened to President Bush's Mission to Mars?
- How did North Korea develop a nuke under Bush's watch but not under Clinton?
- How did Bush run up an 8 trillion dollar debt and a 400 million dollar defict if the economy is doing so great?
- Why do corporations get tax breaks but the middle class doesn't?
- Why were the guys who ran Unocal put in charge of Afghanistan after we invaded there?
- Why did the Republicans hold 140 hours of hearings on whether or not Clinton had used the White House Christmas list to ask for campaign contributions (he didn't), but only 12 hours on the atrocities happening down in Guantanamo?
- How did 19 guys with box cutters working on commands for a dying man living in a cave in the Middle East take down four planes, two towers, and the Pentagon?
- Why did Condi ignore a warning that Osama would strike as far back as July 10th, 2001?
- Why did Bush ignore a warning that Osama would strike as far back as August 6th, 2001?
- Why did they only start screening passengers for potential liquid explosives after the British Bomber plot was foiled?
- Why did they scale back those screenings only a few weeks later?
- Why does Karl Rove, who has admitted playing a part in the Valerie Plame outing, still have access to all White House documents?
- Why did the Bush administration out Valerie Plame in the first place?
- Why didn't they listen to Plame or her husband Joseph Wilson when they told the White House that Iraq didn't have WMDs and wasn't planning on making or getting any?
- Why hasn't the Iraqi oil paid for the Iraq reconstruction?
- Why did Bush spend months telling us that Social Security needed fixing, yet when the American public told him they didn't want to privatize it he stopped talking about fixing it and has yet to offer an alternative plan to privatization?
- Why don't the White House reporters ask harder questions?
- Why does anyone think Fox News is fair and balanced?
- Where's Osama?
- Why doesn't Bush try to catch Osama?
- Why did they delay the Saddam ruling from July to November 5th, 2006 - two days before the elections?
- Why is the Bush administration calling for timelines in Iraq now after saying for years anyone who calls for timelines wants to cut and run?
- What is victory in Iraq?
- What is the strategy in Iraq?
- Why did George Felix Allen Jr. think anyone would believe that he just made up the word "Macaca" or that it was somehow a twist on the word "mohawk?"
- Why would a Republican send out flyers to Hispanics in his district telling them that if they vote - even if they're legal residents - that they could get arrested?
- Why did the Republicans want to hand over our port security to a country that has known terrorist ties?
- Why are they still not inspecting cargo coming into our country five years after 9/11 and have yet to offer an alternative to Dubai?
- Why is Ken Blackwell allowed to run for governor of Ohio while he's allowed to be in charge of elections in that state?
- Why did Joe Lieberman say he wouldn't run as an Independent if he lost the Democratic primary and then run as one when he lost?
- Why are the Republicans abandoning the Republican candidate in Connecticut and are instead helping Lieberman - who claims he's a Democrat?
- Why aren't Republicans calling for Bob Ney, who just pleaded guilty to corruption charges due to dealings with Jack Abramoff, to resign from Congress?
- Why didn't the Democrats filibuster Alito?
- Why did the Republicans kill habeas corpus?
- Why is Bush allowed to illegally spy on us?
- Why are their secret prisons around the world?
- Why do we torture people?
- Why is there still no memorial at Ground Zero?
- Why is Donald Rumsfeld still Secretary of Defense?
- Why did Dick Cheney shoot an old man in the face?
- Why didn't our troops get the body armor they need and have to buy their own?
- Why does the military only allow their troops to read right wing websites and not left-leaning ones?
- Why did Republicans rewrite the bankruptcy laws with the lobbyists so they only help corporations?
- Why did it take NORAD so long to respond on 9/11?
- Why, after knowing global warming is a threat, does Bush continue to strip environment regulations on corporations?
- Why didn't the federal government do more about Katrina?
- Why is Medicare D the best we can do for our seniors?
- Why are votes held open on the floor of Congress for hours when they're only supposed to take fifteen minutes?
- Why was Tom Delay allowed to gerrymander Texas?
- Why did Bush say the tax cuts for the rich in 2001 were only temporary in order to "jumpstart the economy," say the economy is strong, and then push to make those tax cuts permanent?
- Why did the administration ignore all of the evidence that Iraq wasn't a threat?
- Why did Bush say that Iraq had terrorist ties when they didn't, and he knew they didn't?
- Why didn't the Downing Street Memo get more attention here in the States?
- Why did President Bush lie about the number of embryonic stem cell lines that were available to scientists?
- Whatever happened to the Coalition of the Willing and why are the British the only ones still fighting with us in Iraq?
- Why did corporations send so many careers to India and Pakistan instead of employing Americans?
- Why do people have to work two jobs to make ends meet if the economy is so strong?
- Why don't we have Universal Healthcare while every other industrial nation does?
- Why do we have one of the worst infant mortality rates in the industrialized world?
- Why was President Bush's first veto of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, five years into his Presidency?
- Why did World Trade Center Building #7 collapse if it wasn't hit by a plane, only had some small fires inside, and was literally around the block from where the Twin Towers were built?
- Why do we have a rising poverty rate if the economy is so strong?
- Why don't electronic voting machines have a paper trail?
- Why are Keith Olbermann and Jack Cafferty the only newsmen who speak out against the Administration?
- Why does President Bush issue a signing statement for every piece of legislation he signs into law?
- Why does Nancy Pelosi scare Republicans so much?
- Why don't the Republicans have any checks and balances of the Presidency?
- Why does President Bush have more power than any other president in history?
- Why did Bush call leaders of the Religious Right "nutjobs?"
- Why haven't the Republicans done more about banning gay marriage and abortions when those are the key issues that help them win every year?
- What happened to John McCain to make him Bush 3?
- Why was Harriet Myers nominated to be a Supreme Court justice and then almost immediately have her nomination withdrawn?
- Why did the Republicans write a law for one person - Terri Schiavo?
- Why is the administration planning to invade Iran when they're losing in Iraq and Afghanistan?
- Why are Bush and Condi and Rumsfeld and Cheney allowed to say things like, "No one could have anticipated the ______" when obviously people did anticipate those things?
- Why wasn't John McCain at the signing of the Military Commissions Act after so strongly fighting for the legislation that would allow President Bush to name anyone he chooses as an enemy combatant and what constitutes torture?
- Why did Bush spend ten minutes reading a children's book on 9/11/2001 after being told "America is under attack?"
- Why did Bush ignore President Clinton's warnings about Osama?
- Why has Bush yet to embrace alternative energy sources?
- Why are lobbyists allowed to write legislation?
- Why did Jack Abramoff visit the White House more than 400 times?
- Why did Jeff Gannon visit the White House so many times?
- Why do people on the Religious Right want Intelligent Design to be taught in science classes?
- Why does Osama seemingly have a hundred "#2 men" in Al Qaeda?
- Why wasn't more made of Tom Ridge's admission that he used the Terror Threat Level system for political gains?
- Why do protestors have to be kept behind fences blocks away from wherever President Bush is appearing?
- Why hasn't more made of the fact that President Bush only speaks in front of hand-picked crowds who sign loyalty oaths before entering?
- Why do President Bush and other Republicans use coded language that only Christians will understand?
- What was that box on the back of President Bush during the debate?
- Why did President Bush spend more than 40% of his first 9 months in office on vacation?
- Why didn't President Bush immediately end his vacation when Katrina hit and instead spend it eating cake in California?
- Why does President Bush get to decide what constitutes torture?
- Why was Jose Padilla kept in a secret prison for three years, tortured, and then never charged with a crime related to terrorism despite being declared an enemy combatant?
- Why was torture allowed at Abu Ghraib?
- Who ordered the torture in Abu Ghraib?
- Why do President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney appear together so often when the purpose of a VP is to assume power if the President is unable to do so?
- Why aren't more corporations punished for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants?
- Why has No Child Left Behind been underfunded so much?
- Why has the Faith-based Initiative been underfunded so much?
- Why hasn't the minimum wage been raised since the late 1990s?
- How many corrupt Republicans will it take for Republican voters to realize that they're not concerned about the voters, just staying in power?
- Why does Scott Stantis still have a comic strip?

And by the time I finish just asking those questions, I'm watching the sunrise.

If you have any other questions that keep you up at night, please feel free to put them in the comments section and let us know what's on your mind.

Comments

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