A few cartoons from Slate

It's never a bad thing to start out the day with some political cartoons. I got these from Slate.com - an awesome site that I urge you to visit if you have a liberal, progressive or moderate view of things. Considering all of the craziness that has enveloped Washington these past few weeks, between the War in Iraq, the Libby Trial and the Walter Reed Hospital scandal, I figured a humorous take with a few cartoons would be welcome relief. Read 'em and laugh, or at least ponder, considering the seriousness of the issues involved.

This one pretty accurately sums up the parallel world that Vice President Cheney lives in.

I have a favorite saying (that I'm borrowing from the Red Rocker, Sammy Hagar) - What is understood, needn't be discussed. Fifteen years from now, it will still amaze me how this administration wantonly plays with our soldiers' lives with its myopic, stubborn, underfunded, idiotic foreign policy.

It's breathtaking how Republicans and this administration have continued to beat the drum of "Support the Troops" for nearly the last four years, yet this is what veterans who are physically and mentally wounded have to come home to - shabby treatment and a hopeless bureaucracy. The only thing amazing about the whole Walter Reed/Veterans Administration mess is that it somehow hasn't been blamed on the Clinton administration yet. But, there's still time for that. I'll have much more on this later today as well. I'm very, very behind on my writing, but I plan on doing quite a bit later today, tonight and tomorrow.