23% Approval rating???
23% Approval rating??? I got Congress beat by 14% Bitches!!
(George W. Bush)
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*Fonz impression*
Ehhhhhhh!!!
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Snoop!
It looks like he’s trying to Limbo! How low can you go, mon?
Don’t ask…he just might show you.
Alfred E Neumann…”What, Me Worry?”
Everyone seems to forget how bad the Democrat controlled congress is doing.
You seem to forget that the dems just got there two years ago. Two years is barely enough time to assess the damage from TWELVE years of Republican domination of the congress. But sure… blame the guys who just got there. Who needs personal responsibility anyway, right?
Stay classy…
So you’re saying its going to go lower then 14%?
Sure… until the rest of the Repubs get kicked out. It’s a distinct possibility that Obama will be graced with a fillibuster-proof Democratic majority, at which point you can expect the approval rating for Congress to rise sharply.
You did this to yourself…
Never count on a party to save anybody just because they are part of a party. That is othering. We actually need a heathier mix while ousting a lot of old blood in there.
TERM LIMITS! TERM LIMITS!!!! *picketing*
*pickets too*
*pickets too*
I think I’m gonna sneak in here and ick your pockets while y’all are picketing….
Don’t you dare Ick my pockets. There is enough dirty material in there already…
*masturbates into your pockets*
O_o…
Not again!!!
*nests*
We can haz Wilson Pickett?
Are you suggesting we need bloodlettings?
Yes, I am very determined on my Issue Beatings stance.
It’s more a question of being able to take decisive action. Neither party will want to allow the other party to be seen as the heroes, so they will be inclined to gridlock. By being fillibuster-proof, the stronger party can get past these internecine conflicts and actually take some action. Being seen to do something, the congress will rise in the estimation of the people. I suspect that the current low approval ratings stem mostly from the fact that congress isn’t doing much at all but to spin their wheels.
Gridlock is GOOD. Gridlock is when they are so busy fighting about the many different ways to spend your money, they don’t actually get around to doing it.
If you’re going to have a paralyzed government, you may as well not have a government. As hurricane Katrina showed us, and as the economic crisis continues to demonstrate, less government is not always a good thing.
Well, when local government is run by Democrats, yes, you’ll get that kind of disaster. But they still managed to spend the money briskly enough. Just not on the right things. Typical.
FEMA’s local? (Also not run by Democrats)
This is not always the case, Canada has repeatedly now elected minority governments, This has the beneficial effect of stopping obviously partisan legislation. When they need the cooperation of a opposition party to pass laws it limits their ability to do Stupid Shit a great deal.
True dat. My favorite political cartoon of all time shows a dirty disgusting rat in an excercise wheel in front of the capitol. A fat cat in a business suite is
dangling a wad of cash in front of him, making him drool and run for it. Behind them, a crowd of angry voters with pitchforks and torches advances on them shouting, “Throw the rats out!”
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The next panel shows the crowd walking away, congratulating themselves. They’ve replaced the rat with a cute mickey mouse, but the fat cat is still there, dangling his wad of cash.
Right just like the 70’s huh? Have fun with your 4 years of socialism. The coutry will be in such ruin after Obama that it will be a loooooong time before another dem is elected. Jimmy Carter 2!!!!
the best part about the retarded accusations of the McCain campaign, is that people are actually repeating them trying to look cool for the internets.
Sorry, gotta take issue with you on this. As a leftie, I’m vastly disappointed in the democratic leadership right now. Pelosi and Reed are just spineless lumps of jello, willing to give Bush anything he wants. And *that’s* why their ratings are so low.
C’mon, where was impeachment?!? Even Donald Trump wants to know why we didn’t impeach the bums.
Can’t really argue with you there. I imagine the lack of impeachment is because there wasn’t enough time, it wouldn’t have passed, and the political capital would’ve been wasted. Doesn’t excuse the lack of any attempt, just theorizing an explanation.
However, a Dem congress with a Dem president should be able to get some stuff done. If not, I will join in the criticism whole-heartedly. I and many others are putting a lot of faith in Obama. He’s going to have to work hard and achieve much to measure up.
Don’t get your hopes up too much. Democrats are are slowly inching their way to that inevitable point where expectations are so high that no one could possibly live up to them…if they haven’t reached that point already.
Fair point. And nobody expects anything out of McCain/Palin!
I had such high hopes for Pelosi as speaker, and she has so let us down. I thought there would be an impeachment too, but the only guy singing that tune is Kucinich. Kucinich/Nader is my dream ticket.
Pelosi is spending her time making sure she’s the Alpha female in DC, Argh !
Queen Bee.
Someone should tell her: can’t be Queen Bee if all you do is let someone else make your decisions for you. You need to have something you believe in and make everyone else fall in line.
Honestly, I think Pelosi wants to be Hillary.
She’s just one sex change away!
Hillary is a total Alpha female. If she wasn’t such a right winger, I might have supported her, but I at least respect her strength.
If Obama wins, and she doesn’t get to be majority leader in the senate, I would love to see her as Secretary of State. I think she could scare a lot of countries into falling in line!
Hillary is right wing? Where are you standing right now, Cuba?
So, by your count, Bush was cleaning up the mess made by Clinton, right? That’s when everything went to shite, around two years after Bush took office. Nice try, champ.
You did see that he said 12 years of the CONGRESS?
*facepalm*
Well it was funny that the economy didn’t tank out and gas prices didn’t shoot up till the liberals got in charge.
Socialism FTL!!!
You dumbass… what’s happened in the last 2 years? Lets see… massive economic crisis, total asshatness over everything. I don’t think congress has done anything. And they have an approval rating of 9%?!?!!?! And what “damage” did the republicans cause?
Stay ignorant…
Also, what most people don’t realize, is that even though the Dems are the majority, it is not enough to stop the Repubs from filibustering, which has caused the Congress to stalemate, and nothing gets pushed through.
Bush: “Hey, about time I got some respect!”
Foggetta bout it!!!
Anyone remember Nancy Pelosi promising that “this would be the most ethical Congress in history”?
How’s that working out for her? I’m sure she can ask Rep. Mahoney of Florida and Rep. Jefferson of Louisiana, among others.
You don’t want us to begin listing Republican scandals, do you?
Isn’t that kind of like saying “My dog’s breath smells the best”? Comparatively speaking, yes, but it still stinks.
Aren’t democratic members of congress getting higher ratings than republican ones?
What, 3 % instead of 2% ?
Am I the only person pissed off by Bush playing off his stupidity. “Oops, my bad, I ruined your country’s rep and gave you a $5 Trillion debt.” Har har har Bush is freakin’ hilarious!
Somebody needs to tell him that joking about being a bad president is equivalent to spitting in our collective face.
I am still holding out my wicked little hopes for a vicious legal proceeding and dragging him through cobblestone streets attached to violent horses.
But that won’t happen cuz we would need to drag his cabinet, vp, and some idiot congressmen while we’re at it. BUT I CAN DREAM DAMMIT!!!
They’ll get their’s… Don’t worry.
Maybe they can be waterboarded and then tell us if they thought it was torture. In the meantime, I will try to find some horses.
There’s an idea I can get behind. Or, to borrow another Abu Ghraib method, we could waterboard their children while they watch! (Even I won’t suggest doing the things that really were done to those kids.)
And, no, I can’t really get behind waterboarding children. I don’t want the kids to suffer, I just want the parents to understand how much the things they authorized hurt other kids’ parents.
The rumor going around is that Bush has bought a large ranch in a South American country that has no extradition agreement with the US, and that he plans to retire there. No idea if it’s true though.
Sneaky bastard! You can run but you can’t hide!
Interesting, little known fact.
Congress almost always has a lower approval rating than the President, and the President almost always has a lower approval rating than the Supreme Court.
So when the President tanks, Congress tends to tank too. Dissatisfaction with government is an overall global thing. The Supreme Court is relatively unaffected, because no one cares/identifies policies with them.
Trends! Facts? History?!
These things have no place in these hallowed halls!!!
Facts? Vee don’t need no stinkin’ facts!
“Cuz we’re going to MARS, BITCHES!!!”
” ahh’m just a wiillld an’ crazee guy!”
Classic SNL!
Whoever replaces me isn’t going to like the surprise I left him in the bottom drawer of the Presidential desk !!!
Aaaayyyy, Misty May thinks I’m HOT!
you can hate him…but in the end…u gotta luv im…i’m gonna miss the bushisms…but not his foreign policies…he seems like a nice guy…
God liberals crack me up. Arent you supposed to be the ones with all the tolerance and peace? All I see and hear is pure hatred for the last 8 years. Bush didnt steal the election, he won it. GET OVER IT!
Impeachment? Really? For what? Dont give that tired old “Bush lied” line either. Making a decision based on bad information you were given isnt a lie. The same info pretty much every other country in the world had as well. Dems should know very well what a lie is, Clinton was great at that. Obama seems to be taking lessons from him.
You are such a tool.
1) Your tolerance and peace crap cracks me up. The left has a militant side to it, too. Try looking up the history of the IWW. Now *there* was a union that knew how to get things done!
2) Bush so lied. He had bad information AND good information both, and actively suppressed the good information. He even presented congress with a white paper that was different than the one he got. They didn’t know things about Iraq that even I knew, because I was reading news reports from all over the english speaking world. You can’t possibly suggest that I’m smarter than Bush?!? (Of course, I suggest it.)
I support the notion that Mark is smarter than the 5 trillion dollar man. (or whatever the debt is up to now)
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How is it that, in America, you can have a democratic congress but a republican president?
It’s not like parliament, is it?
The democrats regained control of congress in 2006, thanks to the public’s dissatisfaction with the republicans handling of our affairs for the preceding 12 years. The president is elected in a separate vote.
I *wish* we had a parliamentarian system!
What if congress and the president do completely different things? What do you do then?
Checks and balances. If congress passes a bill it goes to the president who has the option to veto it if he chooses. If he does veto it, it goes back to congress where they can override the veto if they have a 2/3 vote. This is, of course, extremely simplified version of the process. Basically, our founding fathers were in such fear of government they didn’t want anyone to have too much power.
Thank you!
hmm.
Sounds convoluted…
It’s convoluted, but it allows us to use a system of checks and balances in order to keep from having a monarchy or a ruling system that has free reign to do what it wants. I don’t even like having Dems or Republicans in both the White House and the Congress in power at the same time. I think it should be set up that whichever party gets the White House, the other party gets the Congress.
But that would absolutely guarantee the two party system, and keep it locked in with the current two parties. And it would potentially keep a party in that nobody wants.
Let me simplify it even further. Whichever party has control of the White House, another party MUST be in charge of Congress, no matter what that party is. I’m not really sure how we’d do it, but I think giving control of all three branches to one party (which will happen if Obama gets in) means that we might as well move back to England and sing God Save the Queen.
I say we should let the Democrats and Republicans each have one person from each state in Congress and make it a normal presidential election. That way, Congress is even and the president is the only imbalance. The House of Representatives can be elected normally, too.
TERM LIMITS! TERM LIMITS! *pickets again* I say throw the bums out in four years before they can do any damage!!!!
*bleeeeech*
God save the queen…..
We need a new national anthem instead of a piece of old, anti jacobite, propaganda. It’s offensive to Scots too…..
Probably would be easier to move to a parliamentary system, where the PM is decide by a majority coalition of several parties, none of which have a controlling vote on their own.
Lets say that in some hypothetical future, a third party gains
prominence in the US. Party one gets 50% of the votes, parties two and three get 25% each (all for the presidential election).
Who gets congress?
I haven’t worked out the details. Let me live in my unrealistic utopia for a minute without interjecting actual facts just yet
Besides, there isn’t a plausible senario where all the parties get the same vote at this point. It would take a while to happen because people are still in the mindset that they are just throwing their vote away if they don’t vote Dem or Repub. Hopefully by the time people figure out that their vote actually DOES count we would have a system in place to deal with the senario you just put forth.
If one party has control of all three branches, it’s still not the same as having one person decide everything. Same-party members still disagree, right?
And what would you do, with your regulation of the parties & branches, in the case of Obama being elected and assuming that Democrats are going to gain control of everything? I mean, can you really just require some Republicans to have spots? If you were going to regulate that, wouldn’t you need some representation from other parties too?
And a parliamentary system would seem convoluted to People from the US.
I don’t think that any one person should have the sort of power the President does, and in the parliaments themselves, there isn’t one. I mean, yes there are people with similar extents of power, but in Australia for example, it is standard that they don’t exercise that power.
Freakin’ brilliant caption!