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I’ll Never Grow Up
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After shutting down the pipeline, Obama went to Disneyland to tell the world America is open for business.
Warm Huggies
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Robert Samuelson calls Obama’s pipeline decision an act of insanity.
Port Authority
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Dockworkers and truckers on the west coast were largely ungracious about the Occupy movement’s efforts on their behalf. Protesters attempted to disrupt capitalism by shutting down ports from San Diego to Anchorage, causing workers to be sent home without pay.
The president, who disrupted the the Keystone Pipeline and the jobs that go with it, has previously said of the protesters, “you are the reason I ran for office“.
The New QE3
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Bernanke has stopped printing federal money. Obama has begun pumping federal oil.
War Games
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I didn’t watch Obama’s speech about “recovering the surge” in Afghanistan. But I hear he wants to ditch the war so he can move on to “nation building” in the homeland.
The war and the economy are dragging the president down in the polls. Yesterday he tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to supplement the oil we get from from the drilling jobs we paid for in Brazil.
I think I like the war more than I used to.
Oil Slam
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In his radio address today, President Obama blamed greedy oil companies for your pain. The Washington Post was on top of it.
“When oil companies are making huge profits and you’re struggling at the pump, and we’re scouring the federal budget for spending we can afford to do without, these tax giveaways aren’t right,” Obama said. “They aren’t smart. And we need to end them.”
Here are Obama’s approval ratings from the various polls as listed on Real Clear Politics (the numbers in the cartoon were as of noon Saturday 4/30).
Horse Sense
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I got this idea from a Rich Lowry column.
Osama bin Laden famously talked of the weak horse and the strong horse. Obama is the show horse.
For the record, the Show Horse picked Kansas to beat Ohio State in the March Madness final in April.
The Mother Of All Clean-Ups
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How do you lose 200 million gallons of oil? Apparently Mother Nature cleaned it up. Maybe she’ll sell it on the spot market.