Weekend Cartoons
It's been a long time since I posted an edition of Weekend Comics, so it's time to restart that tradition again. Here's a pretty big group of great ones I've seen in the last few weeks. As the nominees are determined and the fall election draws nigh, and the campaign no doubt gets uglier and uglier, the cartoons only promise to get better. Hey, at least we'll get something good out of all the mud slinging.
I'm not so sure that the McCain "scandal" that the New York Times broke will lead to anything, but McCain isn't so independent from the lobbyists as he would have you believe (or his press coverage, for that matter). After all, his national campaign manager is a former lobbyist.
Huckabee just won't go away, and that has to annoy McCain. It's all academic now, but Huckabee remains available as a protest vote to conservatives.
This is exactly what a good political cartoon should do - say a whole lot with very little. This one does just that, although I don't believe the base will just sit idly by as the Democrats breeze right into the White House.
Obama is raising some serious campaign cash - over $1 million per day in the last month. Like Howard Dean in '04, Obama is the king of Internet fundraising. While Hillary has lots of corporate backing and a cache of big-name donors, Obama has a wealth of smaller donors giving him millions, and also the fundraising lead vs. the Clinton political machine.
March 4 - Ohio and Texas, really is Hillary's last stand. Everyone knows that she's a long shot even with victories in both states, but without those two, she's toast. Not only that, but she has to win BIG on March 4, because they are not winner-take-all contests.
This one about says it all - the sand is disappearing right beneath Hillary's feet, which is a stunning reversal of fortune - it wasn't all that long ago that she was all but considered the inevitable nominee.
The economic stimulus package is the biggest joke I've seen since the last one in the spring of 2001, when taxpayers received checks in the mail. At least then there was no war on, no crushing deficit like we have now, and also not the two wars we are fighting now. Make no mistake - refund check you are getting in the mail is NOT a tax cut, but a tax deferral. The US is so far in debt, we actually have to borrow the approx. $170 billion to give to taxpayers, in the pathetic hope that people go out and spend something to stimulate the economy. This is the best our leaders can do? This is their big plan to stimulate the economy? If so, we're probably all screwed. The rebate checks are a pathetic, transparent attempt for politicians to be able to go back to their constituents and say, "See, we did something!" What they won't tell you is that all of the money they are giving us now will have to be paid back, with interest. But, the politicians who just passed the stimulus package won't pay the consequences when the bill comes due - they will be long gone by then.
I laughed with irony at Bush last week, licking himself all over with self-congratulatory blarney over what the US has done for Africa during his administration. What he failed to mention, and what the MSM failed to call him to task on, is that the Bush administration refused any funds to any country for family planning programs (Read: condom distribution). Too bad family planning programs are one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa. But then again, this is the same Bush administration that thinks its multi-billion dollar abstinence program will prevent horny teens in the US from having sex. Call that, and Bush's African policy, two more failures.
I was just telling one of my good friends who lives in Detroit over the weekend that what's happening to the Big Three in Detroit is equal parts sad and tragic. There's no reason that Detroit can't again take the lead in innovation. Just think of the billions that can be made with new, non-combustion engine technologies over the next 50 years. Detroit's ability not only to adapt, but take a leadership position, will determine if the Big Three survive as they are now.
This one speaks for itself. I'm pro gun rights, mostly, but our laws have to have reasonable safeguards in place. Quite frankly, our government has not done a good enough job in protecting the innocent, who are dying by the thousands at the hands of handgun violence.
Put simply, Bush backed the wrong horse in the War on Terrorism. Pakistan right now seems to be a breeding ground for terrorism operations, and neither Musharraf now nor the Bush administration seem to be inclined to do much about it.
The wiretapping laws in this country are a disgrace, and a direct assault to our civil liberties. I don't reject the need for wiretapping to find and root out terrorists, but what I do have a problem with is inadequate oversight; a concern not shared by Congress or (Surprise!) the Bush administration.
We continue to get screwed at the pump, with no end in sight. We really do need to quickly and radically transform our energy policy if we hope to remain any sort of first-rate of economic power this century.
We lost the moral authority on torture and human rights years ago under this administration.
This one hits the nail right on the head - our civil liberties continue to get stomped on, all in the name of "keeping us safe." Bill Maher had a terrific point about this on Friday night, when David Frum, a former Bush speech writer, puffed out his chest by saying that there hasn't been an attack since 9-11. I loved Maher's response: "Well, I wrote my green socks again this week, and I still didn't get cancer." Well said.
Roger Clemens is a disgrace, but the even bigger disgrace is that our legislators in Washington don't have anything better to do than talk about steroids in baseball.
This is yet another story that goes virtually unreported in the press - the willful neglect of a major city by our government, the Bush administration. Democrats certainly deserve some blame, too; I haven't heard anything about Democrats wanting to help the people of New Orleans in any massive, significant way.
Our food supply right now is about as safe as, our water supply, our ports, our airports and planes, and our infrastructure. Sigh. But, we really need another tax cut, and we really have to make permanent all of the tax cuts that Bush gave the overwhelmingly wealthy earlier this decade. Right?
I'm not so sure that the McCain "scandal" that the New York Times broke will lead to anything, but McCain isn't so independent from the lobbyists as he would have you believe (or his press coverage, for that matter). After all, his national campaign manager is a former lobbyist.
Huckabee just won't go away, and that has to annoy McCain. It's all academic now, but Huckabee remains available as a protest vote to conservatives.
This is exactly what a good political cartoon should do - say a whole lot with very little. This one does just that, although I don't believe the base will just sit idly by as the Democrats breeze right into the White House.
Obama is raising some serious campaign cash - over $1 million per day in the last month. Like Howard Dean in '04, Obama is the king of Internet fundraising. While Hillary has lots of corporate backing and a cache of big-name donors, Obama has a wealth of smaller donors giving him millions, and also the fundraising lead vs. the Clinton political machine.
March 4 - Ohio and Texas, really is Hillary's last stand. Everyone knows that she's a long shot even with victories in both states, but without those two, she's toast. Not only that, but she has to win BIG on March 4, because they are not winner-take-all contests.
This one about says it all - the sand is disappearing right beneath Hillary's feet, which is a stunning reversal of fortune - it wasn't all that long ago that she was all but considered the inevitable nominee.
The economic stimulus package is the biggest joke I've seen since the last one in the spring of 2001, when taxpayers received checks in the mail. At least then there was no war on, no crushing deficit like we have now, and also not the two wars we are fighting now. Make no mistake - refund check you are getting in the mail is NOT a tax cut, but a tax deferral. The US is so far in debt, we actually have to borrow the approx. $170 billion to give to taxpayers, in the pathetic hope that people go out and spend something to stimulate the economy. This is the best our leaders can do? This is their big plan to stimulate the economy? If so, we're probably all screwed. The rebate checks are a pathetic, transparent attempt for politicians to be able to go back to their constituents and say, "See, we did something!" What they won't tell you is that all of the money they are giving us now will have to be paid back, with interest. But, the politicians who just passed the stimulus package won't pay the consequences when the bill comes due - they will be long gone by then.
I laughed with irony at Bush last week, licking himself all over with self-congratulatory blarney over what the US has done for Africa during his administration. What he failed to mention, and what the MSM failed to call him to task on, is that the Bush administration refused any funds to any country for family planning programs (Read: condom distribution). Too bad family planning programs are one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa. But then again, this is the same Bush administration that thinks its multi-billion dollar abstinence program will prevent horny teens in the US from having sex. Call that, and Bush's African policy, two more failures.
I was just telling one of my good friends who lives in Detroit over the weekend that what's happening to the Big Three in Detroit is equal parts sad and tragic. There's no reason that Detroit can't again take the lead in innovation. Just think of the billions that can be made with new, non-combustion engine technologies over the next 50 years. Detroit's ability not only to adapt, but take a leadership position, will determine if the Big Three survive as they are now.
This one speaks for itself. I'm pro gun rights, mostly, but our laws have to have reasonable safeguards in place. Quite frankly, our government has not done a good enough job in protecting the innocent, who are dying by the thousands at the hands of handgun violence.
Put simply, Bush backed the wrong horse in the War on Terrorism. Pakistan right now seems to be a breeding ground for terrorism operations, and neither Musharraf now nor the Bush administration seem to be inclined to do much about it.
The wiretapping laws in this country are a disgrace, and a direct assault to our civil liberties. I don't reject the need for wiretapping to find and root out terrorists, but what I do have a problem with is inadequate oversight; a concern not shared by Congress or (Surprise!) the Bush administration.
We continue to get screwed at the pump, with no end in sight. We really do need to quickly and radically transform our energy policy if we hope to remain any sort of first-rate of economic power this century.
We lost the moral authority on torture and human rights years ago under this administration.
This one hits the nail right on the head - our civil liberties continue to get stomped on, all in the name of "keeping us safe." Bill Maher had a terrific point about this on Friday night, when David Frum, a former Bush speech writer, puffed out his chest by saying that there hasn't been an attack since 9-11. I loved Maher's response: "Well, I wrote my green socks again this week, and I still didn't get cancer." Well said.
Roger Clemens is a disgrace, but the even bigger disgrace is that our legislators in Washington don't have anything better to do than talk about steroids in baseball.
This is yet another story that goes virtually unreported in the press - the willful neglect of a major city by our government, the Bush administration. Democrats certainly deserve some blame, too; I haven't heard anything about Democrats wanting to help the people of New Orleans in any massive, significant way.
Our food supply right now is about as safe as, our water supply, our ports, our airports and planes, and our infrastructure. Sigh. But, we really need another tax cut, and we really have to make permanent all of the tax cuts that Bush gave the overwhelmingly wealthy earlier this decade. Right?Labels: Weekend Cartoons
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