Well, I guess that parenting has now lost a formerly important tool

[NewHendoLib]

We were all raised to be honest - to tell the truth.

Today's vote vetoed that principal.

I guess the new lesson for children is "think about what you want - what you believe to be true - and that is the truth. Actually, let's forget that word - there is no truth - just your own personal desires".

Nice country we've become.

[Claire Oh Nette]

1. Colbert called it years ago.

https://www.cc.com/video/63ite2/the-colbert-report-the-word-truthiness

Can't find this clip on youtube.

Premier of Colbert Report and the origins of truthiness. Shame conservatives never figured out it was a *parody.*

[EarlG]

2. Amazing isn't it?

This kind of thing used to be a standard Republican attack on Democrats, back when Republicans branded themselves as the party of personal responsibility:

"My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, 'If it feels good, do it; if you’ve got a problem, blame somebody else,' to one in which every single American understands that he or she are responsible for the decisions that you make."

-- George W. Bush, 2003

A few short years later:

[mnhtnbb]

4. The inner ugliness of the man really comes through in this photo.

Makes you want to

[Harker]

8. I haven't seen one yet that doesn't nauseate me. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

10. +1000

He makes my skin crawl. The sight of him makes me physically ill.

[Harker]

11. Some day Americans will be scratching his ugly name

off of schools and bridges, and pulling down statues.

[Marcuse]

3. Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you.

[liberalla]

6. Wow, that final panel! Removal of brain, eyes and ears!! This is what's

REQUIRED to be a republicon today... still wearing the hat, though.

Great cartoon!

[JohnnyRingo]

5. Ayn Rand would be so proud.

Who knew that her poison pill of placing self gratitude above morals would work on time release.

[ancianita]

7. It's not a tool. It's a universal value of adult civilization. So no, that principle was not vetoed.

That vote was a choice by a few people in a party that lost three branches of government.
That vote doesn't define the larger country.
Today's vote doesn't veto anything out in the world, either.

[Harker]

9. She was raised, in part, by Dick Cheney.

That muddies it up some.

[BobTheSubgenius]

13. I imagine a person rising to political prominence with the surname "Borgia," or "Machiavelli "

One would be compelled to view that with an eye at least partly jaundiced.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Huh. I didn't realize most parents look to the Republican Party

for guidelines about raising their children.

[CaptainTruth]

14. Only for Republicans, not for civilized people.