..looks like Pee Wee Herman's hopelessly square brother...

When you look at the plan, you just know that there had to be a pony in there somewhere.

In the political backrooms you know there is a hell of a lot of consternation going on among the Neocons. Not only did Bush turn out to be a Communist appeaser, (the EU might boycott the Olympics, what's that say about American Right Wing politics?) including watching Putin outlast Bush and Cheney, (who might as well get their tickets for Paraguay, their legacy for the American political scene is a litany of what not to do) but his economic leadership is Socialist as well. OH SURE, he can make a speech about restraint, and secretly chide Democrats? (hardly) about not overreacting to the financial crisis, while the Fed chief and the Presidents Working Group are pulling out policy angles not used since the Great Depression. It might be that the last official act of the Bush dirty tricksters over at FBI was to nail Spitzer, while the entire economy slid down the toilet, in AN ELECTION YEAR.

This set of cartoons could only have been written by their press secretary, because it misses everything that matters. Or more rightly it denies everything that matters to them and why not put Forbes face, and Kudlows face, and Laffers face, to make the point. This is just timid.

Gotta love the magic ponies. I never got mine...

Hopping up to the TV camera,

the pundits reveal their fools.

those neocon are not robins.

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These pundit professors on T.T.'s panels,

are classified according to derangements?

There should be 500 or more flop panels.

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Tom T. is drawing caricatures of floppies?

The TV is rarely viewed. I'll buy no digital.

T. Tomorrow will convince me to snip cords.

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The birds don't need electricity and the vocal chords of birds are pleasant.

The TV punditry needs to be outlawed because of the scary flop sounding snarls

Neocons regret they are busy. It's sad they can't attend daily funerals and visit a V.A..

The most any of you did was blog about it. The 4000 Dead GI's thank you for your outrage.

maybe you'd be so good as to tell us how YOU stopped the war??

I have marched in protests surrounded by thousands of others. I have picketed my so-called representative's office until my feet were sore. I have mailed, emailed, phoned and text-messaged my senators daily, sometimes multiple times daily. The rear end of my car is covered with impeachment stickers. I have several "stop the war now" t-shirts that are worn to threads.

Short of going out and buying a gun and aiming it at a few strategic people [Note to FBI...it's just a hypothetical], what else could I do? Our system is broken. Our government does not respond to the will of the people, our so-called leaders are corrupt beyond measure by the all mighty corporate dollar, and our undereducated population couldn't tell the difference between "defense" and "offense" unless you handed them an inflated bladder of some kind and told them to run.

Yeah, blogging doesn't help much, I suppose. But apparently neither does anything else, short of revolution. [Note to CIA...another hypothetical. Or maybe not.]

300,000 people surrounded the White House for a month - 6 weeks we'd not be in Iraq.

You go right ahead and organize it, cowboy. Who's stopping you?

That's the state of the union of today.

Crystal got a column at the NY Times? Why?

Every Neo Con seems to have landed a cushy job somewhere despite proving themselves to utter idiots.

It's a tall task to demand Tom Tomorrow readers stop the war single-handedly. Not everyone is a specialist in protest.

Perhaps though if enough banded together, it could become such a problem for major media to hire these fear-peddling war-mongers that they would NOT hire them anymore.

Same goes for CNN, MSNBC Etc. Why do they get a free pass for having them on?

Attacking the vulnerable corporations that hired these neo-cons fresh of one of the biggest failures in modern history might be practical and actually have an effect.

Eliminating the pedistals from which they continue to promulgate their propaganda would go a long way in ending the insanity they started.

I know a lot of people vented their disgust at Crystal's hiring, but nothing happened. Why?

As this "modern world" with the internet it takes more than having the idea to make it so.

Random letters of disgust were probably thrown away by the collective management of the NY Times.

I'd happily join in if there were a way to make the NY Times regret its actions.

I know I already wrote my letter of disgust to the editors.

What's needed is someone who has the ability to focus this anger and frustration.

And as I said, having an idea does not make one a specialist in protest or collective action.

Ironically it seems most of those types are on the other side. hmmmm. Why is that.

"Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, there are 300,000 people surrounding the White House! They've been there for a month!"

"So?"

"Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, there are 300,000 people surrounding the White House! They've been there for a month!"

"Good. That's the kind of situation we've had our troops training for in Iraq"

I mean, short of branding everyone who disagrees with you an anti-Semite that is.

Giving hand jobs to Glenn Greenwald has worked so well so far. You keep doing that.

As I've pointed out before, massive anti-war protests (esp. those which will inevitably contain photogenic hippie types) aren't just not useful to the anti-war effort, but actively damaging. Ever since 1968, the GOP has been using images (and "the image") from these media events to scare more people to the polls in presidential elections, to the ultimate detriment of what passes for a left wing agenda in this country.

And it doesn't even help convince politicians to change policy in the first place!

Does anyone actually think Bush gives even half a shit what a bunch of people "chanting and ranting" in Lafayette Park think? As Cheney might say, "Those people don't vote for us anyway. F'em."

Actually, for last week's march here in DC, the vast majority of people I talked to who were here from out of town weren't even aware that Congress was out of session, and out of town. And Bush was in New York. Who, exactly were they bothering, besides the regular peons like myself who work in the city (the vast majority of whom don't work for the government or their minions in the private sector).

Most of us who live here realize that regular marches, etc., are part of living here. But when the marches go over the line, and disrupt regular folks day to day commute, it becomes rather annoying.

Also, given that DC is approximately 85% Democrat, please try to remember that you're only pissing off potential allies.

I hope this didn't come off as too hostile. It just gets old seeing this useless marching over and over, year after year, in the end helping the Republicans more than anything. Remember, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.