Sunday Cartoon Blogging

Machiavelli said it well:

Sunday Homily
from Dr. Wrong:
Do three scandals in one week mean Mr.
Obama is finished as president and will be impeached shortly? Do three scandals
in one week mean that the administration is floundering and has lost the hold
on the rudder of the ship of state? Does it matter that the scandals are not
really scandals (mostly) and that one of them didn’t start this week?

The
important thing is the number three, because that means it’s a PATTERN that we
can understand even if we don’t exactly understand the underlying particulars.
Three! Yer Out, Mr. Obama. Three strikes! Just like baseball.

There is a difference between a Bad Thing
and Scandal.
Moreover these things aren’t congruent with each other. “Congruent” implies a
lot more analysis of these tempests than either politically motivated congress
critters or our main stream press wants to give them.

But you
needn’t bother with that task either, because next week the press will move on
and the narrative will change to “The West Wing Regains Its Footing”.

These
scandals distract us from the real problems and issues that we face. Who is
talking much now about gun safety legislation, immigration reform, climate
change, the economy and unemployment, Obamacare implementation?

Instead,
the right (and their lackeys in the media) is absolutely consumed by
Benghazigate, IRSgate, and whatever other gates are being dreamed up by
congressional Republicans. Maybe nothing will get done in Obama’s second term.
The GOP strategy of misdirection and blocking everything seems to be working for
them, and the Obama administration’s lapses aren’t helping.

Conservatives
clearly have a “so what” attitude to our country’s continuing problems.
They have decided to run a shadow
government. This shadow government has no interest in governing, as we understand
the word governing. Rather they are focused entirely on attacking and destroying
their enemies: the President, Democrats, the middle class and poor. The behavior
of Republicans in the past 5 years should be enough for the thoughtful among us
to never vote Republican again.

Three of the last five Republican presidents
could have been impeached: Nixon for Watergate, Reagan for Iran-Contra and Bush
2 for lying about WMD or torture. Only the very decent Gerald Ford and Bush 1 had
no impeachable offenses. The mossbacks among us remember that the impeachment hearings for Nixon were a solemn, unhappy
event for Congress and the people of the US.

No real American wants to impeach a
president (except many, many Republicans, of course), and no one really wants
to see highly placed government officials ending up in jail. That would be a failure
of our system and our democracy.

OK, back to Humor.

Why the AP can’t find its contact information: