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We Are Not Quitters
RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch
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9 Responses to “We Are Not Quitters”
Love it!
Don't get it.
Making fun Obama because he quit smoking?
Making fun of Republicans because they're pretending George W. Bush never existed?
1.75 Trillion Dollar Deficit Under Obama.
Now the Democrats are trying to convince us Deficits are a good thing. You have to love the hypocrisy of it all.
Wasn't it Dick Cheney who said deficits don't matter?
Why do Republicans think they have any credibility about the deficit?
OBAMA: Every dollar I’ve proposed, I’ve proposed an additional cut that it matches.
OBAMA: And so while it’s true that nobody’s completely innocent here, we have had over the last 8 years the biggest increases in deficit spending and national debt in our history.
Obama said, “When George Bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. It’s now over $10 trillion.” Actually, it was closer to $6 trillion when Bush took office. On Jan. 22, 2001 (two days after Bush was sworn in) the debt stood at $5.728 trillion. On Sept. 30, 2008, it was $10.025 trillion.
OBAMA: Every proposal I’ve put forward during this campaign we have paid for, and we have specified where that money is going to come from. YEAH>>>>BORROW IT!!!
“Change is not running up even bigger deficits than George Bush did.” Rep. Gene Taylor
George- I didn't take it to be ridiculing Obama, just referencing a known fact that it was hard for him to quit smoking (just as it is for any smoker to quit.)
It's a clever cartoon because it combines several references to recent events and ties them together- Obama's smoking habit, the girl at Obama's budget speech, and the facts that quitting smoking is hard because it's an addiction just as our politicians can't quit spending because it's addicting for them.
Then there's clever pictoral depiction of 'fiscal responsibility' going up in smoke.
And the warning label.
And the typical product ad hype “Now with more economic stimulus”
IOW, the cartoonist did what cartoonists do, and very well- he combined ideas into a coherent picture that draws on things we're all familiar with to make a point.
Hey, C Stanley, maybe you can now explain why Republicans have any credibility on the deficit.
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