OK, then, Nancy, go away.

REPUBLICAN VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter..

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

DEMOCRAT VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be that, in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green…’

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome”. Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.

President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house,
crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses, bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

HAHA, very funny Bob!

She is right about the deficit. Bu$h did receive a surplus from Clinton. Although she failed to mention that Obama has increased the deficit almost four fold.

Awesome comparison Bob

Oh please, Nancy. The President of the United States does not have the power to set budgetary numbers- the House of Representatives does. Answer me this- who has been the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and what have the majority of Representatives been (D or R) since the elections in November 2006?

President Clinton had a surplus during *some* of his years, true. What flavor was the House of Representatives and the Senate, Democrat or Republican, during those years of surplus?

How quickly she wants to place blame, without looking taking responsibility for issues which she has been responsible for, and cherry-picking individual facts out (“The Republicans didn’t vote for Wall Street Reform”) as one political gambit designed to throw the scent away from the true nature of the stink.

– S.

Funny that Steve M — it appears you are MUCH smarter than the “journalist” asking the questions – one Chuck Todd. Did he even question Pelosi on her inability to create the budget? Did he even bother to remind Nancy that SHE HAS BEEN IN CHARGE OF CONGRESS since 2006? I didn’t think so.

Chuck Todd – just another Obama/democrat toady.

What you meant to say Nancy was that barry CAN”T solve any problems.

In some way, she is right….there are many problems that ARE Bush’s fault even today….

It is funny to hear Republicans tell Democrats to stop bringing up Bush….then blaming Clinton for something a few hours later

Typical right-wing hypocrisy where they are unable to accept any blame when 99.9% of the public knows it is

@DrFunke: You are right that Republicans get defensive about the ‘blame Bush’ game and correctly point out Pelosi’s crap comments and Obama’s crap statements about Bush – - yet will also blame Clinton’s Housing project as the root of the housing bubble/sub-prime issue. Both the blame Bush and blame Clinton claims are factual…. and ‘hypocritical’

Then you excuse Democrats doubling down on the very mistakes Bush did in overspending and over-regulating and over-inflating the size of the government…

When will you people (D’s and R’s) understand that the stupidity and theivery of the other group does not justify theivery by your group?

Stop blaming each other and act responsibly. Ask government (no matter the letter behind each politician’s name) to live within their means.

Signed – a reasonable libertarian (small L)

DrFunke says:
June 11, 2010 at 4:04 pm

In some way, she is right….there are many problems that ARE Bush’s fault even today….

It is funny to hear Republicans tell Democrats to stop bringing up Bush….then blaming Clinton for something a few hours later”

Prove it, dullard.

Oh, and DrFunke, guess who the American people are blaming for all theses messes? Barry

Gallup Poll

Obama Weekly Approval Average Dips to New Low of 46%

Obama’s average has been in 46% to 50% range since mid-February
June 2, 2010
At 46%, President Obama’s job approval average for the week ending May 30 is the lowest weekly average of his administration, one point below the previous low of 47% measured in April.

I willingly blame President Bush where it is his to take blame on. I am willing to take a look at the underlying causes of issues and deal with things responsibly. I will give credit where it is due.

Unfortunately, in such a partisan society, it is a rare individual who can look past the initial beyond a politician’s name and do the same- I do not feel that any of our elected officials on a federal level are capable of doing so, considering the mantras and obstructions that I hear and see. Too often people shut out the other side as having ideas which do not work without trying to reach concensus on issues, to the detriment of us all.

– S.

True leadership focuses on solving the problem; True leadership does not focus on finding someone to blame.

Bush NEVER blamed Clinton for the Accounting scandals that occurred under Clinton’s watch….which Bush inherited.
Bush NEVER blamed Clinton for the intelligence breakdown that led to 9/11…which Bush inherited.

In fact, I recall press conferences where Bush push aside any attempt by any press members to cast blame to his predessor for any of the problems he inherited.

Incidentally, Pelosi seemed to have forgotten that the PROJECTED surplus that Bush inherited was not as big as the projections (if it ever existed) because the numbers were fudged (eg…accounting scandal)…

So true, Bias Media. Also, that surplus was achieved solely on military spending cuts and I think some people confuse the budget surpluses with our national debt.

I also think it is telling that throughout the Bush years the Dems screamed, as ever, about all the DRACONIAN CUTS that were only cuts b/c of the phony baseline budgeting techniques used by the government.

I disapproved of the runaway Bush spending then and I disapprove of the even worse runaway spending now.

I blame Bush for starting this mess. I also blame Obama for not fixing it. We hired him to make things right and he treats it as if it’s just an annoyance, something to take a back seat while he plays politics and rewards his political backers. Nothing has changed. And if you complain they say, “well nobody said anything when Bush did it!” Almost everyone said something when Bush did it. The man left office with 23% approval ratings for Christ’s sake. Bush was an idiot. Stop using him as an excuse for you being an idiot. And this woman, who has made HUNDREDS of millions of dollars during her political career is no different from any Republican. She knows she’ll be there till she kicks off or retires because the San Fransicans are stupid enough to keep hiring her.

@Bobomatic

That was great. Did you write that??? Or did you harvest it from somewhere else.?

Madam Pilosi, what a lady!! She never ceases to amaze, The profoundness, the razer sharp reasoning, the forked-tongued speach pattern, the polished arrogance, the…..the…….well, you know what I mean. Like I said to my daughter the other day, “If you grow up to be anything like that woman, I’ll cut you out of the will” As with all serious discussions, I was smiling and using a low voice………….a sure sign of intention.

yes, yes I mispelled her name….. Pilsoi as in pill

Bobomatic swiped that soliloquy from one of dozens of right-wing sites. The word is “plagiarism.”

Republicants long ago adopted the “Two Santa Claus Theory” as their modus operandi.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Wanniski#The_Two_Santa_Claus_Theory :

“The Two Santa Claus Theory is a political theory and strategy developed by Jude Wanniski in 1976, which he promoted within the U.S. Republican Party.

“The theory states that, in democratic elections, if one party appeals to voters by proposing more spending, then a competing party cannot gain broader appeal by proposing less spending. The “Santa Claus” of the theory title refers to the political party that promises spending. Instead, “Two Santa Claus Theory” recommends that the competing party must assume the role of a second Santa Claus by offering other appealing options.”

How it works: When in power, Repubs go on spending binges. Out of power, they decry the huge debt they themselves created. Bush and Cheney stuffed our $$$ into the pockets of their fat-cat defense-industry pals – more than doubling the debt. When Obama took office, the same congressional Republicants who enthusiastically endorsed the Bush/Cheney “binge spending” rant and rave about the debt THEY helped create.

The Repubs count on Americans’ notoriously short memories to overlook their involvement in this ongoing deceit. The anti-intellectual, anti-education neocon right was custom-made to perpetuate this “Republi-scam.”

Ahh. A reminder of the entire BushDrunk family of devoted alcoholics. Read the history. Start with Prescott.
It’s a genetic thing.

I do feel sorry for this stupid, insipid, lying has been. I am so totally ashamed of Pelosi and of her stupid rhetoric, my only thought is she might have early dementia. Bush did leave a deficit but BO has multiplied that debt over and over again, so that our children and grandchildren will be deprived of their future. Oh yes where did BO get 400 million dollars from to give to the Palistinians to buld.. I do not want my tax money going to terrorist. BO is an arrogant creature who thinks he can, and will drop us into poverty.. Oh wait isn’t that the socialist way, then they can control every instance of our lives.

“Bush did leave a deficit but BO has multiplied that debt over and over again”.

From: http://mediamatters.org/research/201005070047 :

“[T]he total public federal debt on May 6 was 1.2 times larger than it was when Obama entered office.”

A 20% increase . . . one-fifth.

A lot of Obama’s spending is intended to help US, not people like Bush and Cheney’s fat-cat pals.

Bush increased the debt from something like $5T to $12T – mostly wasted on illegal wars, no-bid contracts that directly benefited Cheney, defense-industry boondoggles and tax cuts for fat-cats who don’t need them.

“Overspending” progressives worked together to successfully defeat a costly and strategically useless fighter jet program. You’re welcome.

“Oh yes where did BO get 400 million dollars from to give to the Palistinians to buld.”

The same place he got several BILLION for Israel.

“BO is an arrogant creature who thinks he can, and will drop us into poverty.”

Why would he do such a ridiculous thing? to help his re-election? Sheesh!

George Bush was “humble” enough to start TWO illegal wars, so he could be remembered as a great wartime president. The man is either clueless or deeply disturbed Blow and booze would explain some of it.

“Oh wait isn’t that the socialist way, then they can control every instance of our lives.”

Well, no, it isn’t. As usual, a rightie conflates socialism with communism . . . and just about everything ELSE he doesn’t like.

The Cocoanut With Teeth has absolutely no idea of the problems she’s causing–I will not quit blaming her until the damage she has done has been ameliorated.

Or should I have said mitigated? Either way, you choose.