“Rescuing the Economy”, “A Riled and Crazy Guy” and “The Best You Can Do” – Cartoons

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from hopenchangecartoons:
  In a thoughtful interview with the always-impartial NY Times, Barack Obama announced that he expects Republicans to be far more willing to work with him following the midterm elections and, by implication, that he still enjoys pot, booze, and a little blow when he can afford it.
  According to the alleged president's alleged reasoning, there are two possible scenarios which would mean that Republicans would work with him after mopping the floor with lesser Democrats around the country.
  In the first scenario, the Republicans will feel a sense of shame if their election returns "didn’t do as well as they anticipated, and so the strategy of just saying no to everything and sitting on the sidelines and throwing bombs didn’t work for them.” On a side note to the president, we'll point out that people can't be sitting on the sidelines and throwing bombs, although this does help explain the president's "we promise to leave right after the surge" war strategy.
  In the president's second scenario, the Republicans will do "reasonably well (at the polls), in which case the American people are going to be looking to them to offer serious proposals and work with me in a serious way.”
  Apparently Obama is missing the third and most likely scenario: that from Day One, newly elected Republicans will have their hands full repealing everything that Obama has done to this country for two years.
  Still, you have to give the president credit for his bizarre optimism. Or perhaps give credit to whoever is supplying his high quality mood enhancers.

from Chip Bok:
  Obama is ignoring David Ignatius‘ advice to take credit for saving the economy and run with it.  In his column, Ignatius calls the voters “willfully stupid” - possibly not a winning campaign slogan.  So instead, the president is taking Joe McCarthy’s advise to make a wild accusation and then demand that the accused prove his innocence. The accusation being that the Chamber of Commerce is selling out the country to foreign corporate interests.  The New York Times debunked this but that didn’t stop David Axelrod from telling Bob Schieffer, on Face the Nation, that we don’t know that the Chamber is not taking foreign money until they prove it.  Shieffer’s response, “…is that the best you can do?”
  P.S. While Ignatius thinks the people are “willfully stupid”,  Victor Davis Hanson says they’re being “played for fools”.