I love Tom Tooles!
So he put what is going on succintly in his cartoon today in the NY Times
see below
I do not get it.
Voters hate Republicans. They feel that they are more responsible for the downfall of this economy but they are going to vote them back in.
Then why are they voting them back in?
I try day after day to wrap my head around this and I just do not get it.
Yes, I do think that Dems shot themselves in the foot by being so divided and Prez Obama also hurt himself a few times by the way he handled handled things but are we not getting out of the rut no matter how slowly?
So here comes Tom Tooles and puts all this nonsense into context for me:
Mood ring
I guess this is the mood of the electorate this year, as far as I can tell.
We are fine with the trend of an evergreater share of the American economy going to the very richest people. We like a tax policy that encourages this trend. We don't feel that power follows wealth and so do not fear any negative consequences from this.
We oppose any actually workable plans to rationalize the health care system in this country and feel that the long trends of everincreasing costs for ever-shrinking coverage will fix themselves.
-We prefer more religion in government and schools and less science, and we feel this will lead to good outcomes.
-An opinion that climate science is wrong will make it be wrong.
-Deficits didn't matter before, but now they are all we can think about.
-We blame President Obama for the bad economy, but anything he does about it can only make things worse and make us blame him even more.
-We like Republicans even less than Democrats but plan to elect them in a landslide, and that this will improve things.
Did I miss anything? --Tom Toles
See full cartoon (I do not know how to bring it in)here:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/...