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Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World
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Filed under Opinion - Political Cartoons
"Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins."Integrity:
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Source:Brookings Institution, April 5, 2004.
“People like elected officials with guts who say what they mean... I stand by what I said, I didn’t violate any House rules. I didn’t do anything inappropriate. I’m not under any pressure at all.”Deceit:
Rep Alan Grayson (D-FL) during a press interview on September 30, 2009
“If the public option plan is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote because I believe debt can break America and send us into a recession that’s worse than the one we’re fighting our way out of today. I don’t want to do that to our children and grandchildren.”
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to FOX News Sunday host Chris Wallace, November 9, 2009.
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7 Comments
November 2, 2009 at 7:04 pm
This is Bush’s “noble cause.”
Oil.
Not freedom.
Not democracy.
Oil.
and the money and power that comes with controling it.
For that, Bush killed more Americans than were killed on 9/11.
For that, Bush killed untold thousands of Afghanis and Iraqis.
For that, Bush is immune from prosecution because the people with the money and power don’t want him prosecuted.
November 3, 2009 at 5:37 am
I recently received this email from a coworker. It appears the Republicans are off on yet another tirade about “failed” government.
“Absolutely the funniest joke ever……ON US !!!· Let it sink in.· Quietly we go like sheep to slaughter.Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ….. During the Carter Administration?· Anybody?· Anything?· No?· Didn’t think so!Bottom line … We’ve spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency…the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember. Ready??????? It was very simple. And at the time everybody thought it very appropriate… The ‘Department of Energy’ was institutedon 8-04-1977 TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL. Hey, pretty terrific idea, huh????? AND NOW IT’S 2009, 32 YEARS LATER … AND THE BUDGET FOR THISNECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEARIT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEESAND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY ‘WHAT WAS I THINKING? Ah, yes, good old bureaucracy…And NOW_ we are going to turn the Health Care Industry over to government? May God Help Us !!!
Keep this one going….. ”
They so totally miss the concept that President Carter made an honest attempt to cut back our dependence on foreign oil, a thing he saw as ultimately bad for the US and its economy.
They also miss that the DOE has been gutted and hamstrung by the Republicans to prevent it from achieving the goal of making the US less dependent on foreign oil.
They also miss that the formation of the Department of Homeland Security stands as the largest boondoggle department ever established.
November 3, 2009 at 7:29 am
Oh, it’s Jimmy Carter’s fault? Sorry forgot, how could I?
November 3, 2009 at 7:36 am
That’s a good cartoon Paul, a question that nobody seems to want to ask.
Here’s the Oil Drum on the cost of oil and its premium in US defense costs, featuring some Turtle guy in the comments section
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4281
November 3, 2009 at 8:24 am
Terry, Thanks. The MSM never mentions the fight over oil and gas in that region and the fight to put in pipelines. A whole lot of Americans and even more Afghans will continue to die…and like BnF says…not for freedom…not for democracy…for oil.
Our continued presence in Afghanistan and Iraq says clearly that our government could care less about alternative energy.
November 3, 2009 at 9:47 am
Interestingly I have a pal, also called Paul, who is one of thre most progressive people I know (and lives in the People’s Republic of Oregon to boot). And yet when it comes to issues of energy security he has said (somewhat advocating for the Devil) “Why not go in and secure our energy supplies? Sure it’s wrong but if it’s between us and ‘them’ I’d rather be wrong and us than right and them”.
My response to that was I’m sure that argument was used in Japan (maybe) in 1941….
November 3, 2009 at 10:02 am
I always thought that if someone could articulate the direct linkage between terrorism in the Middle East, to the cost to spend >50% of the world’s defence budget’s combined ‘protecting it’, to the cost of a gallon at the pump to the, to the end of cheap energy and cheap oil, to the impact of carbon emissions on climate…. that guy ought to be given an opportunity.
It’s not Obama, nor is it anyone in the ‘Party of God’ or the American Hizbullah as the GOP now is. Even Al Gore, I’ve never heard him step near the third rail of American politics – the defense budget.
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