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If he graduated magna cum laude without even attending classes that would be even more impressive!

Yes, a pullout is more expensive than staying deployed. Equipment has to be moved, transportation has to be provided, fuel, planning, budgets have to be made, materials have to be shipped, food supplies have to be changed, equipment and assets have to be mothballed, etc. etc. etc. Much more...

(Forehead slap.)

Um, so Obama should or shouldn't have pulled the troops out of Iraq even though it added to costs this year?

So why would the Democrats introduce such a bill to restrict their own income and Republicans oppose it?

Okay, so some anger clouds your judgment but this is a good anger which clears your thinking. Could be. For me it doesn't.

Oh, okay, so presumably according to you banks are allowed infinite leverage.

In the same vein: <img src="http://o.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/12312/Carton-Hybrid-Cars_jpg_630x1200_upscale_q85.jpg">

And you would be attacked (likely by Republicans) for being soft on defense, so you can see why cuts are somewhat difficult.

Do you think more clearly or less clearly when you're angry?

Reducing reserves is an indication of confidence in the economy, is it not?

That's fine, and it would help, yes. However the pullouts themselves cost a great deal of money, as in Iraq. So in the short term your policies might actually increase the deficit.

The military, for one. Your free hover-round, for two. Your prescription drug coverage, etc. etc. Cuts in federal employees have been made before (under the Democrats, ironically enough) but then people vote in the Republicans and the size of the government grows again. You can be like...

It reminds me a lot of this: <img src="http://o.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/12286/Cartoon-Minimum-Wage_jpg_630x1200_upscale_q85.jpg">

Please keep posting these cartoons. I find them interesting as more an observation on perceptions of humor.

I can make things up too: the recession began in -1113 BC when Grog, economic policy advisor to Blurg, catastrophically devalued the oyster shell.

Fox, the National Review, WND, and others blame Obama for starting the recession -- even though the timeline doesn't make any sense whatsoever. As for "prolonging it unnecessarily" -- there's no way to know what would have happened in the alternate universe where the stimulus didn't take...

Me too. I love the tea party. I hope they gain more power. Maybe not for the same reasons, but at least we can agree on something. I find the Libertarians, uh, entertaining and terrifying.

I don't even know what that means, except that you can repeat phrases. The recession began in December of 2007. The new congress met starting January 2007. The budget for 2007 was submitted by Bush in February of 2006. Ie. Bush submitted the budget to a Republican congress. The recession...

Seriously. It takes about fifteen seconds with Google to disprove this nonsense. If you want to court moderate conservative voters, the Republicans need to quiet down the folks who spread such nonsense because it just alienates people like me. (Actually while you're at it, get rid of all...