Tornoe’s Toons: The Rollins and Urquhart Tea Fest
For those of you who missed Monday night’s debate between Republican Congressional candidates Michele Rollins and Glen Urquhart, which took place in a tea cup in Hockessin, let me summarize their positions:
Repeal Health Care reform, No Muslim Community Center near Ground Zero, Cap and Trade = making Al Gore rich and the varying degrees that Obama has acted “Nazi-like.”
Christine O’Donnell was nice enough to show up and hang out as well, and compared the Muslim Community Center near Ground Zero to pornography, before backtracking and clarifying her statements.
The funniest comment came from Urquhart, who proudly praised, “I’m not dependent on government for MY job.”
They why are you running?
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Brilliant!
So why did Urquhart buy a council member then? Any developer is dependent on the government. Rollins takes some of that sweet, sweet government money as well.
Great cartoon!
GREAT CARTOON! It was great to meet you the other night, Rob. Watching you doing your magical depictions onto the drawing pad across your knee and following your furious scribbling of notes across the margins was a sight to see.
Jesse was superb – keeping everyone on their toes.
Rollins biggest gaffe was saying that she would demand that everyone in the United States be given 90 days to get a national ID card. I turned to the elderly gentleman next to me laughing and we both nodded: she must not get what DMV is like if she thinks they could handle that kind of a load.
Rob,
I know that both candidates don’t like the recent healthcare legislation, but did either of the candidates commit to sponsoring legislation that would extend the healthcare plan that they would receive as Congresspersons to the rest of us ?
That’s one big cup of Poo Tea
Very funny! Wonder what the temperature of that tea was?
Rollins biggest gaffe was saying that she would demand that everyone in the United States be given 90 days to get a national ID card.
Immigrants and ID cards seem to give Republicans fits. Anybody remember Bill Lee proposing drivers licenses for illegal immigrants or something like that, and then recanting?
Going even further back, does anyone remember in the 60s and 70s that suggesting a National ID Card was a radioactive topic that would mark you as a New World Order radical?
IIRC, it used to be illegal to use a Social Security number for anything other than government business, and Reagan changed that. Talk about “mark of the beast…”
I don’t know how you’re supposed to check everyone’s status easily if there’s no national ID cards.
did either of the candidates commit to sponsoring legislation that would extend the healthcare plan that they would receive as Congresspersons to the rest of us ?
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Nope, no one asked them/ But Rollins said she liked and wanted health care reform but not in the form of a revenue bill (as she called it).
I don’t know how you’re supposed to check everyone’s status easily if there’s no national ID cards.
You aren’t supposed to be able to. That used to be consided “Big Brother.”
How quaint we were, back when Americans used to pride themselves on not being Big Brother like the Soviets, and not being Good Germans like the Nazis.
Michele Rollins BS Story (PART 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRyCPIA5Wv8
inre: the national ID card; have you heard of TWIC? Transportation Workers Identification Card. In order to work at any U.S. port, refinery (oil/chemical) or nuclear site you have to pay the $135 to obtain it. The process includes fingerprinting and background checks. The gist is that you’re linked to that card, the card is linked to you and if you get popped jaywalking on Thursday its in your profile by Monday. What’s cool is who has access to your very private data and how anything else can be linked to it: medical, financial, political and associations. From a business perspective, it can’t be beat. Not only do Americans pay for the initial humiliation of becoming a file out of necessity to be employed, the worker remains eternally shackled to the card. Not good enough?
I’m a union tradesman. I did some apprenticeship time in Delaware City when Texaco ran the show. I became friends with a gentle giant from a different trade. Fast forward 12 years; Homeland Security has implemented the TWIC program. I got work there just before Valero hit the bricks, just before TWIC became mandatory. My giant friend, being always responsible and having been at the plant for 20+ years decided to get a jump on the program so he submitted himself to the process. Thanks to TWIC, he was informed 12/08 he could no longer set a foot on the property. He was charged with a felony assault at a Jersey bar when he was 18 years old, 3 years before he ever began his career at the refinery. Over twenty years of being on time, no sick days and an exemplary work record and he’s gone because some puckered ass “patriots” are in a fucking tizzy about “security”.
National ID cards. Remember that old chestnut the NRA throws about,”if you outlaw guns then only outlaws will have guns”? At least we won’t have national fucking id cards.