great doonesbury cartoon today

[w8liftinglady]

[punpirate]

1. Umm, seems Trudeau...

... has forgotten a great deal in the intervening years. Moreover, Poppy isn't intrinsically better because his son is immeasurably worse.

[RC]

2. Well, maybe in comparison Trudeau is correct.

[punpirate]

5. I thought Mark's...

... boyfriend was the repug twit....

On edit, oops, thought that reply was for TexasProgressive.

But, the point is that Trudeau, not Mark, is offering to upgrade Poppy's status in popular history. The elder Bush, if anything, was a pretty devious and disgusting person and still is. He was just marginally better at hiding it from the public than his son.


And, Mallard Fillmore is a real cheap shot, you know that, don't you? :)

[MissWaverly]

7. wasn't it during Senior Bush election, exit polls went off

I think that's the first time exit polls malfunctioned, yeah, right

[RC]

11. Mallard who?

Never ever look at it. a waste of ink & space.

[burythehatchet]

3. Poppy's crimes escaped the age of the internet

But the line about "we were grooming Jeb" is hilarious.

[punpirate]

6. Yeah, the internet would have made life...

... measurably more difficult for the elder Bush. Some of the news that came out too slowly to have an impact would have moved a lot more rapidly and might have changed things a bit. I wonder what might have happened to Bush if many of the things described in John MacArthur's book, Second Front were common knowledge at the time they occurred.

[burythehatchet]

10. Noriega's story for example

I wonder how many people have ever heard of him or his dealings with the Bush crime family.

[0007]

8. junior sure closed the books fast on daddy when he got in office, eh?

The first thing he did.

[burythehatchet]

9. and the first thing I would want a dem leadership to do

is open every one of those records and publish it on the web for all to see.

[0007]

12. Absolutely!

[TexasProgresive]

4. Isn't Mike a rethug?

I think you're forgetting that and what Trudeau is doing is showing a republican turning against BabyBush. Trudeau's genius is that he doesn't toe (tow) any party line which allows us to laugh at our selves. So lighten up punpirate before you sound like Mallard Filmore.