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May 20, 2008
It's The Stupidity In The Comics Section
First, an observation: based on the sun in the sky, it took the person making the statement in today's Prickly City (probably Carmen, since she's the one who's shouting all the time) approximately FOUR HOURS to say what's on her mind.
As for the substance of what Carmen/Stantis is saying, I love it when Republicans whine about things that their party is primarily responsible for, but they toss in a few things that they think they can blame on Democrats so they come across as "fair and balanced." See, buzz words like "bio-fuels" are supposed to be liberal ideas (although it's our beloved president who loves him some switchgrass) and the stimulus package is happening while the Democrats are in charge (and Stantis sure didn't whine about it when Bush did the same thing in the past).
But you won't hear a Republican like Stantis take responsibility for a horrible economy that's a result of his party's terrible economic policies. The economy has been sliding for years now, but Stantis didn't whine about it before - why now? Probably because he thinks he can pin the blame on everybody in Washington, instead of on the real culprits - his party.
Oh yes, let's blame "food-devouring bio-fuels" in the same breath as you blame a "shortsighted energy policy." That makes a whole lot of sense. And of course the latest conservative talking point is that the subprime mortgage crisis should be blamed on the people who got the loans, not the folks who gave people unrealistic loans because they thought houses would always go up in value fo-evah. Ugh.
Please Stantis, give us more of your amazing intellectual economic insight. Tell us how this is all the fault of the Democrats, and how your man John McCain is going to magically fix everything by cutting taxes on the rich and refusing to give veterans more money to go to school. The real stupidity in the economy is thinking that Republicans know what the f*ck they're doing.
Newsflash: conservative economic policies DON'T WORK. How much more proof do we need? Should we start building new Hoovervilles? How many recessions did we have under Eisenhower? (hint: less than 4, more than 2). How awesome was the economy under Nixon and Ford? Remember the "glory years" under Reagan, which gave us the then-worst deficit and debt in history? And now we're giving Hoover a run for his money thanks to the oh-so-wonderful economic insights of W and his cronies.
But let's vote for John McCain, who has made it very clear that he has every intention of doing the exact same freakin' thing George W. Bush has done. Because when something bad is happening, just keep doing the same damn thing cuz eventually it'll get better, right? Right? I mean it works for Scott Stantis - he keeps trotting out the same talking points and the same lame scripts and the same bad drawings every day and he's doing just fine, ain't he?
Comments
I agree theat the stimulus package is a budget-buster, but how can you rant about budget-busting and not say a word about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Posted by: Anonymous at May 20, 2008 12:29 PM
Scottie can't hear any of this. He's in a frenzy of joy, thinking of Teddy Kennedy's illness. Kennedy isn't Schaivo, therefore Scotty doesn't want him kept alive forever.
Or maybe he's in a state of panic, seeing as he will soon be losing one of his few outside characters.
Posted by: Annie at May 20, 2008 01:04 PM
You got all that out of THAT? Good thing he's cut down to three panels these days, for your sake.
Posted by: Sacki at May 20, 2008 02:16 PM
That's what happens when you actually read the strip every day. :P
Posted by: The Furnace at May 20, 2008 07:42 PM
