What a Day for a Daydream

This is ours today:

What if Barack Obama finishes his tenure with nothing more than the kind of minor and mid-size controversies that beset any president? Can you imagine the pain conservatives will feel if we arrive at January 2016, Obama boards Air Force One for one last trip home to Chicago, and this was all there was? If there was no impeachment, no super-scandal that would stand alongside Watergate and Iran-Contra, no public reckoning for the endless crimes they imagine he has committed? Just picture them watching Obama smile and wave, his two terms done, with much to be proud of and his reputation intact, while they sit before their televisions, white-knuckled fists crushing tricorner hats into shapeless, defeated clumps of torn felt and cardboard, all that rage undiminished and unredeemed.

Custom-made for a day-dreamin' boy...

Sunday Funnies

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You can't say that the Rethuglicans haven't tried to whip up a "scandal" soufflé in order to cripple the Obama Administration and, at the same time, damage their feared potential opponent in 2016, Hillary Clinton, with Benghazi! BENGHAZI!!

Good economic news, from consumer confidence rising and a booming stock market, to a recovering housing market and shrinking debt, is undermining their attempts at the President's personal destruction.  Oh well, they still have the debt ceiling and the budget to foul up in order to damage the economy and blame the Dems.

(cartoon: Tom Toles, via GoComics.com)