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Yeah, no shit. The Clinton administration eroded civil liberties and caused plenty of environmental degradation on their own, while co-opting right wing strategies like welfare reform and failing to do anything about Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia (well, about 5 years too late). I’m not sure that greatest living president is that hard of a title to obtain.
This is funny—I’ve been waiting for W.J.C. to show up again. Should the “Amerika” have three k’s? Or is that just too darn much? Isn’t it always the way? You set the raygun to “kill,” and all you do is make your victim stronger.
AHA! But the raygun wasn’t set to “kill” . . . like all weapons of the Cult of the White Elephant, it was set to “devolve.” Yet it works strangerly on particular people . . .
William Jefferson Clinton is, bar none, the greatest living president. I base that on one thing—not Rwanda, not rising mercury & PCB levels in fish, but . . . on the fact that we had him for eight years, and he walloped all comers.
You want Jimmy Carter? I would, too, except for a foreign policy less tactful then Bush 43 and the fact that we might as well called him President GATEWAY TO TWELVE YEARS OF REPUBLICAN DESTRUCTION. Can I actually blame President Carter for the actions of President Reagan?
See the next cartoon!! THIS FRIDAY: The Comeback Kid in a shocking new role!!
Speaking of reappearances, I predict that Ronald Reagan will become a very public election-year catalyst in the near future. This is probably a horrible and insensitive thing for me to say about someone who is apparently suffering badly, but the cynic in me has a nagging suspicion that the GOP will use Reagan in one of two ways this year to shore up Bush’s not-so-automatic reelection:
(1) They’ll somehow get Reagan to show up at some strategically planned Bush event, the Gipper’s first public appearance in who knows how long (over a decade, maybe?). He’ll say something vapid (and therefore, to the GOP, inspiring), the crowd will go nuts, the media will talk about nothing for weeks but Reagan’s appearance, and the GOP will find the fire of its moral authority stoked once again.
(2) Reagan will die this year – before the election – and the collective GOP memory of a time “when character was king” will make right-wingers even more outspoken and fanatical than they already are.
I hope I’m proven wrong, but I sense that the GOP is actually afraid they might somehow lose the election. And frightened GOP-ers will do anything, including (I believe) plunder the last days of someone with Alzheimer’s.
Well, I think Nancy was too strong a guardian of him last time around—and hell, that was FOUR YEARS ago. Did Sen. McCain or then-Governor Bush even get close to him?
I think Regan is already dead and they are just waiting for the right moment to make it public. He’s currently in liquid nitrogen storage until all the proper footage has been edited into tributes, etc. Then he will be rolled out and thawed, then left to be found by the servants at the house.
He and Nancy were both killed by Bush, Sr. during the last election as a sacrifice to Antonin Scalia. Scalia still wears her tongue on a necklace under his robes. He mailed the rest of her head to Sandy O’Connor as a Scalian message…”Nancy Regan sleeps with the bitches.”
The Nancy that you see now is simply an animatronic device…much like the Saddam that we “captured” a few months back, only the Nancy is much more advanced and can talk and stuff.
Thanks, I’ve been a bit out of touch lately. I haven’t had any pictures to post lately as my camera has been residing elsewhere for a month or two. He promises to return it with my PS2, but I will just carry on as best I can til he does. Besides that I’ve been holding down the soon-to-be-even-more-populated fort. I’ve been putting some miles on my backyard grill, helping my wife cope with being pregnant, and then reporting the Capital City’s finest and seediest news.
Did you know, in our very own Fondren, that three guys were breaking into a house this morn? JPD, called by a neighbor, arrived on scene and were fired on by the burglars with a gun stolen from the house. Two officers fired about 15 rounds each and hit one of the guys 4 times…he died.
Actually I have reported some worthwhile news these past few weeks…I’ll find some time in the near future and tell all about it, but now I am off to the capital for some tort-reform presser, hopefully see JP! there.
As far as the environment goes, I’d like to relate an anecdote. First off, I’ll point out the obvious—no President is perfect. The POTUS must make a zillion decisions a day every day, many of which Johnny Off the Street never even knows about, thus can’t credit the Presient with. Most of these decisions are based on political realities. Nothing in politics and policy happens in a vacuum, unless you are an absolute dictator. For example, how will Congress act based on a decision the President makes?
Having started with that caveat, and pointing out that the only person with whom any of us would ever agree with 100 percent is, well, ourselves…
Clinton did an absolute fuckload for the environment. More lands and wetlands were turned into National Parks and preserves than at any other time since TR. Most of this was done at considerable political expense. Did Clinton’s EPA make every correct decision? Of course not. But let’s view things through the scope of what he DID do, and that was a lot. He held up entire budgets until timber riders were taken off them. He saved Tongass multiple times. Did he ever want to drill in ANWAR? Nope. 9 times out of 10, he came down on the side of environmentalists over industry.
Now the anecdote. I happened to be at an event in the Roosevelt Room back in ‘96 or so, and afterward just about everyone had filed out. A few of us were standing around talking about some of the TR paraphernalia in the room, and the talked turned to the environment. Clinton overheard us, and joined the conversation. At the time, there was a major brewhaha going on between logging and environmental forces, complete with tree huggers and multi-billion dollar logging interests. He talked about how he was going to end up acting on the issue, and about how it was a lose-lose situation for him at best. Then he said something to the effect that being President was one of the loneliest jobs one could have because the way he was going to act, mostly in favor of the side of the environmentalists, meant that Big Timber was going to be mad as hell, but that the tree huggers (I’m not using that term negatively, I’m one too) were also going to be mad because they weren’t going to get 100 percent of what they wanted. I’ll always remember that as people lay into him for not doing enough on the environment.
As far as civil liberties go, I have a similar reaction. The issue of civil liberties is my main “cause.” I can recall very few things Clinton did with which I disagreed. In fact, I can point to quite a few times where he did things that have had lasting repurcussions on civil liberties to this day. Seemingly small things like issuing an executive order barring the federal government from using genetic information in any hiring or promotion decisions (http://www.aclu.org/WorkplaceRights/WorkplaceRights.cfm?ID=7818&c=180). Let’s not forget he twice vetoed so-called partial birth abortion legislation, preserving the right of a woman to make her own choices involving her womb. More broadly, in terms of civil rights, his actions cannot be questioned. For instance, he single-handedly preserved affirmative action through a deft turn of phrase. He supported the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. And he appointed the first ever (and only) special assistant for lesbian and gay outreach. The man was not afraid to take one for the team, even if it meant considerable political cost.
All that is to say, I like to remember the vast amount of good works the man did instead of centering on the few things about which I disagreed with him.
hrmmm
You mean Jimmy Carter is dead?
Yeah, no shit. The Clinton administration eroded civil liberties and caused plenty of environmental degradation on their own, while co-opting right wing strategies like welfare reform and failing to do anything about Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia (well, about 5 years too late). I’m not sure that greatest living president is that hard of a title to obtain.
that’s James (jimmy) Carville, not Pres. Carter.
jesus, that cult of the white elephant is funny. can i get a shirt to give out to my pals that are members?
i can’t quit laffing at this. plus i know what happens next episode….
woo hoo!
so BG, you would have prefered the DOLE rubber stamp? Clinton may not be a saint, but he’s fucking better then EVERY GOP nominee in the last 50 years
This is funny—I’ve been waiting for W.J.C. to show up again. Should the “Amerika” have three k’s? Or is that just too darn much? Isn’t it always the way? You set the raygun to “kill,” and all you do is make your victim stronger.
AHA! But the raygun wasn’t set to “kill” . . . like all weapons of the Cult of the White Elephant, it was set to “devolve.” Yet it works strangerly on particular people . . .
William Jefferson Clinton is, bar none, the greatest living president. I base that on one thing—not Rwanda, not rising mercury & PCB levels in fish, but . . . on the fact that we had him for eight years, and he walloped all comers.
You want Jimmy Carter? I would, too, except for a foreign policy less tactful then Bush 43 and the fact that we might as well called him President GATEWAY TO TWELVE YEARS OF REPUBLICAN DESTRUCTION. Can I actually blame President Carter for the actions of President Reagan?
See the next cartoon!! THIS FRIDAY: The Comeback Kid in a shocking new role!!
Oh, I don’t disagree that he’s probably the greatest living president. I was just pointing out that it sorta sucks, you know?
Jimmy Carter is probably the greatest living ex-president. Wait, that doesn’t sound right. You know what I mean.
Yeah, I totally agree. If we could take Jimmy Carter’s heart and put it in Clinton’s body . . .
Well, I don’t want to spoil NEXT week’s cartoon.
Hmm. Does it kind of suck? Yeah, yeah it does. DoMA still sticks in my craw, as well as DADT, and . . . grr.
Speaking of reappearances, I predict that Ronald Reagan will become a very public election-year catalyst in the near future. This is probably a horrible and insensitive thing for me to say about someone who is apparently suffering badly, but the cynic in me has a nagging suspicion that the GOP will use Reagan in one of two ways this year to shore up Bush’s not-so-automatic reelection:
(1) They’ll somehow get Reagan to show up at some strategically planned Bush event, the Gipper’s first public appearance in who knows how long (over a decade, maybe?). He’ll say something vapid (and therefore, to the GOP, inspiring), the crowd will go nuts, the media will talk about nothing for weeks but Reagan’s appearance, and the GOP will find the fire of its moral authority stoked once again.
(2) Reagan will die this year – before the election – and the collective GOP memory of a time “when character was king” will make right-wingers even more outspoken and fanatical than they already are.
I hope I’m proven wrong, but I sense that the GOP is actually afraid they might somehow lose the election. And frightened GOP-ers will do anything, including (I believe) plunder the last days of someone with Alzheimer’s.
Well, I think Nancy was too strong a guardian of him last time around—and hell, that was FOUR YEARS ago. Did Sen. McCain or then-Governor Bush even get close to him?
I think Regan is already dead and they are just waiting for the right moment to make it public. He’s currently in liquid nitrogen storage until all the proper footage has been edited into tributes, etc. Then he will be rolled out and thawed, then left to be found by the servants at the house.
He and Nancy were both killed by Bush, Sr. during the last election as a sacrifice to Antonin Scalia. Scalia still wears her tongue on a necklace under his robes. He mailed the rest of her head to Sandy O’Connor as a Scalian message…”Nancy Regan sleeps with the bitches.”
The Nancy that you see now is simply an animatronic device…much like the Saddam that we “captured” a few months back, only the Nancy is much more advanced and can talk and stuff.
Do they keep her in a spider hole?
Just wondering.
Oh. My God. Why is Jas’N not around more? “Scalia still wears her tongue on a necklace under his robes.”
Thanks, I’ve been a bit out of touch lately. I haven’t had any pictures to post lately as my camera has been residing elsewhere for a month or two. He promises to return it with my PS2, but I will just carry on as best I can til he does. Besides that I’ve been holding down the soon-to-be-even-more-populated fort. I’ve been putting some miles on my backyard grill, helping my wife cope with being pregnant, and then reporting the Capital City’s finest and seediest news.
Did you know, in our very own Fondren, that three guys were breaking into a house this morn? JPD, called by a neighbor, arrived on scene and were fired on by the burglars with a gun stolen from the house. Two officers fired about 15 rounds each and hit one of the guys 4 times…he died.
Actually I have reported some worthwhile news these past few weeks…I’ll find some time in the near future and tell all about it, but now I am off to the capital for some tort-reform presser, hopefully see JP! there.
As far as the environment goes, I’d like to relate an anecdote. First off, I’ll point out the obvious—no President is perfect. The POTUS must make a zillion decisions a day every day, many of which Johnny Off the Street never even knows about, thus can’t credit the Presient with. Most of these decisions are based on political realities. Nothing in politics and policy happens in a vacuum, unless you are an absolute dictator. For example, how will Congress act based on a decision the President makes?
Having started with that caveat, and pointing out that the only person with whom any of us would ever agree with 100 percent is, well, ourselves…
Clinton did an absolute fuckload for the environment. More lands and wetlands were turned into National Parks and preserves than at any other time since TR. Most of this was done at considerable political expense. Did Clinton’s EPA make every correct decision? Of course not. But let’s view things through the scope of what he DID do, and that was a lot. He held up entire budgets until timber riders were taken off them. He saved Tongass multiple times. Did he ever want to drill in ANWAR? Nope. 9 times out of 10, he came down on the side of environmentalists over industry.
Now the anecdote. I happened to be at an event in the Roosevelt Room back in ‘96 or so, and afterward just about everyone had filed out. A few of us were standing around talking about some of the TR paraphernalia in the room, and the talked turned to the environment. Clinton overheard us, and joined the conversation. At the time, there was a major brewhaha going on between logging and environmental forces, complete with tree huggers and multi-billion dollar logging interests. He talked about how he was going to end up acting on the issue, and about how it was a lose-lose situation for him at best. Then he said something to the effect that being President was one of the loneliest jobs one could have because the way he was going to act, mostly in favor of the side of the environmentalists, meant that Big Timber was going to be mad as hell, but that the tree huggers (I’m not using that term negatively, I’m one too) were also going to be mad because they weren’t going to get 100 percent of what they wanted. I’ll always remember that as people lay into him for not doing enough on the environment.
As far as civil liberties go, I have a similar reaction. The issue of civil liberties is my main “cause.” I can recall very few things Clinton did with which I disagreed. In fact, I can point to quite a few times where he did things that have had lasting repurcussions on civil liberties to this day. Seemingly small things like issuing an executive order barring the federal government from using genetic information in any hiring or promotion decisions (http://www.aclu.org/WorkplaceRights/WorkplaceRights.cfm?ID=7818&c=180). Let’s not forget he twice vetoed so-called partial birth abortion legislation, preserving the right of a woman to make her own choices involving her womb. More broadly, in terms of civil rights, his actions cannot be questioned. For instance, he single-handedly preserved affirmative action through a deft turn of phrase. He supported the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. And he appointed the first ever (and only) special assistant for lesbian and gay outreach. The man was not afraid to take one for the team, even if it meant considerable political cost.
All that is to say, I like to remember the vast amount of good works the man did instead of centering on the few things about which I disagreed with him.