"it gets madder"

[kpete]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/31/1000325/-It-Gets-Madder?via=blog_1

[xchrom]

1. Awesome. nt

[ProSense]

2. You have to hand it to Republicans

In the middle of a GOP civil war, while holding the country hostage and threating to blow it up, with Boehner weakened, and with every Democratic Senator calling out House Republicans/teabaggers, the top meme is: It's Obama's fault!

Evidently, Obama made them into assholes and allowed them to take the country hostage!

[Poll_Blind]

4. Reid: 'I'm the Senate majority leader. Why don't I know about this deal?'

Reid: 'I'm the Senate majority leader. Why don't I know about this deal?'

"Evidently, Obama made them into assholes and allowed them to take the country hostage!"

:eyes:

You now calling Democratic Congresspeople assholes for going along with the deals Obama cuts with the GOP behind their backs?

PB

[midnight]

37. Boehner is a lobbyist for ALEC. He is making a private deal with the president?

This makes me ill....

[bvar22]

35. No,

but Obama is certainly dancing to their Conservative Republican Music.

Slashing Government Spending and "trimming" the Safety Nets during a Recession & Jobs Crisis
is standard Conservative Republican Hog Wash.
It isn't even Republican-Lite,
and it certainly is NOT Traditional Democratic Party policy.



Who will STAND and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. How much longer before the cartoonists have the tea partiers

depicted like Southern plantation owners?

They're always going to prevail because they will stop at nothing to maintain their dominance.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Got to point out that the Southern Plantation owners did not

prevail. No one 'always prevails'. When you stop at nothing, eventually you crash into something.
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
— Mahatma Gandhi

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. They'll prevailed through most of my productive years.

And they will crash only when they have stolen my children's future.

[Bluenorthwest]

15. Southern Plantation owners prevailed in your lifetime?

Ok. If you say so.

[The Backlash Cometh]

23. The mentality has survived.

Hillary Clinton saw it. And anyone who lives in the South sees it. That white entitlement mentality prevails.

[coalition_unwilling]

13. While I appreciate the truth behind your statement, it must be

noted that the blood of 1,000,000 Northerners was spilled so that plantation owners would not prevail.

[Bluenorthwest]

14. Of course. But the other poster insists that evil always prevails

Slavery did not prevail. I agree with Gandhi. Because he is correct. He says they always fail, the poster says the always prevail. Gandhi gives reasons. The poster just announces that wrong always prevails, always will. And I do not agree.

[ej510]

17. It did for centuries though. Millions of my people died.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. Are you suggesting that Gandhi did not know that?

And by the way, slavery itself still survives, I did not suggest otherwise as you seem to. The fact is the other poster claimed Southern Plantation owners prevailed. They did not. They were vanquished. Slavery itself is alive and well. Southern Plantation owners in the US did not prevail. Which was my entire point, and also, by the way, the Mahatma's. But I'm sure you guys know far more about all of this than Gandhi and your opinions should be given the proper place, high above such a trivial man as the Mahatma.
Pessimistic rambling about the great and superhuman powers of one's enemies serves one's enemies. I personally take a pass on that one. I still go with Gandhi's take:

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
— Mahatma Gandhi

And I'll add this one from him just for those who announce that evil prevails:
"Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone."
— Mahatma Gandhi

[The Backlash Cometh]

27. Gandi was fighting a much different opponent than we are.

In his time all you had to do was topple over a leader, and the movement died with him. But what we're dealing with is far more endemic in our society.

[Bluenorthwest]

28. Gandhi faced down the British Empire. There was not a single

leader to topple, his opponent was not a movement, but the Empire upon which the sun never set. Until one day, the sun did set.

[The Backlash Cometh]

31. In other words, the lines between the opponents were clearly defined?

The Indian culture vs British colonialism. Not the same thing we're dealing with today where there's an element of civil war still taking place in this country.

[The Backlash Cometh]

25. Your poster name says it all.

You live in the South and soon you'll see how wrong you are.

[Bluenorthwest]

29. I offered up words of great wisdom to perhaps balance your

pessimism. I figured, because of your pessimism, that you are in the South. That and the fact that you do not say in your profile what State you are from. Always the South, always come to tell me that the world is Alabama. I did not imagine you'd take offense at Gandhi's larger view of things, a though he said he brought to mind when he himself felt pessimistic. Maybe this one, being more to the point, might be less bothersome. This is from historian Howard Zinn:
"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

[The Backlash Cometh]

32. Forever the rebel, then.

Not my idea of utopia, but it does seem to be the hand I was dealt.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. LOL in a sick way.

Say, "I love Ronald Reagan" say it!

:evilgrin:

:puke:

[Poll_Blind]

6. Tell me about it.

What a nightmare.

PB

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. As my husband and I rely on SSDI/Medicare, I am having nightmares frequently.

:scared:

[Poll_Blind]

16. I find myself waking up in the night and not able to get back to sleep, thinking about it.

That, and the climbing heat out here, are incredible energy drains.

PB

[SammyWinstonJack]

18. This is the worst summer in the 18 yrs I've lived in Texas and this next

week will have four days hovering around 106/7 degrees.

It is draining and the excessive heat has ruined summer for me.

x(

[Poll_Blind]

20. Oh, that's awful! I grew up in New Orleans and we...

...dind't grow up with much money so I remember the ritual of the washcloth in the bowl of water next to the surplus military cot where I slept with a box fan on. I'd wipe myself down with the cloth and pray there the humidity was low enough that it would evaporate when the fan hit it. I remember it frequently being so bad I'd wake up and do that more than a dozen times, some nights.

PB

[GoCubsGo]

26. And the ironic thing is...

...if Reagan was alive today, they would have run him out of the party as being "too liberal".

[Poll_Blind]

30. Sad but true. "Another Hollywood Librul!"

PB

[mfcorey1]

9. As sick as this cartoon makes me feel, it about somes up the current state of affairs. I wish the

White House could get a copy of this.

[Poll_Blind]

33. I'm sure they already have...and they showed it to McConnell and they both laughed.

PB

[mfcorey1]

36. correction,,,,sums lol

[Vinca]

11. The real sorry part is the current GOP/Bagger party makes Reagan look like the good old days.

[coalition_unwilling]

12. They make Tricky Dick Nixon look like a card-carrying member

of the Communist Party, the ultimate irony those of us who remember Nixon from his days with Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers :)

[Poll_Blind]

24. It's pretty damned depressing.

PB

[steve2470]

21. great cartoon but who is the Hare ? lol .... nvm....looks like Boehner nt

[Poll_Blind]

22. Yep, it's a Boehner Bunny.

PB

[Proles]

34. That just about sums things up...

but it's almost like Obama likes it.

[_ed_]

38. He already says he loves Reagan

all the time.