Herman Caligula

Mike Thompson: Herman Cain and the unemployed

11:54 PM, Oct. 19, 2011


By Mike Thompson
Free Press Cartoonist

Republican presidential debate moderator Anderson Cooper: “Herman Cain, I gotta ask you…two weeks ago you said, don’t blame Wall St., don’t blame the big banks, if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself…do you still say that?

(Audience applause)

Herman Cain: “Yes I do still say that.”

(Wild audience applause)

That exchange from Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas goes a long way toward explaining what’s wrong with politics today and why nothing ever gets done in Washington. A guy who blames the unemployed for their joblessness was the most popular presidential candidate among Republicans in a recent poll? Seriously? Talk about pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps dogma blinding people to what's going on in the real world.

There was a time when the Republican Party was comprised of mostly responsible, sane-thinking individuals who weren’t so far out in right field that it was impossible to reach any sort of compromise with them.

I miss those sort of Republicans.

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