Tom Toles: The Wayward Forward

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Where do conservatives go from here? They simplified their policy menu down to three ideas: cut taxes, reduce regulations and attack yet another foreign country. These ideas have been so successfully implemented that they have nearly finished us off.

Conservatives now have raised the back of their hands to their foreheads, tilted their faces to the heavens, and started a long catlike yowl about the deficits that their former flightsuit-clad hero George W. Bush delivered to the nation, thanks to the very same conservative principles named above. Hence the conservative dilemma. Cut taxes some more now? Oops! Those deficits! Reduce regulations? Oh, let's see if a less-regulated Wall Street can destroy the tax base MORE thoroughly! Attack still ANOTHER country? How much could THAT possibly cost?

There is really only one strategy remaining for conservatives. Prevent an economic recovery while Obama is still president, thereby clearing the way for an anger-filled electorate to lift up a truly crazy candidate, the kind only frighteningly prolonged bad times could reward. Ever wonder what accounts for that smug, knowing look on Sarah Palin's face? Now you know. -- Tom Toles

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/tomtoles/2010/07/a_fitting_cap.html

[Blue_Tires]

1. that was the plan for the start...

[Octafish]

2. Cartoonists can write.

And Toles writes the truth.

2-cent Octafish prediction: This post is destined for 200 Recs.

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7. Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours

Missed this one earlier or I would have rec'd it, sorry.

Didja know evil Dick had a bad heart?

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3. Kick for Democrats interested in winning this fall.

Already rec'd, but I wish I could again 198 times.

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

:thumbsup:

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5. Great cartoonist...

he gets so much! K&R

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6. ..

[SpiralHawk]

8. "We want America to fail." - Rush DraftDodger Limbaugh (R - SpokesModel)

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