Posts featuring Cartoons
Political Auction Committees
Friday, May 11, 2012
Several weeks ago, I read an article discussing how much Mitt Romney had to spend per vote to win the Republican nomination, as well as the projected influence of Super PACs over the 2012 Presidential Election. The headline alone had me immediately reflecting on how the Presidency, as well as most significant political power, is more often bought than it is earned…
Charity Cases
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Do you have any idea how hard it is to raise five boys and dressage horses on a family income of only a quarter of a billion dollars? No?? Well then DON’T SCOFF Ann Romney’s choice to be a “stay-at-homes” mom!!
Yuckin’ It Up
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Tags: capitalism, cigar, climate change, Earth Day, environmental impact, environmentalism, factory, global warming, hurricanes, Mr. C.E.O., smoke, smokestacks, tornados, weather, yuck
Standing His Ground
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Tags: axe, axe murder, battle axe, beard, brute, Florida, George Zimmerman, horned helmet, if your favorite metal album were a political cartoon, law, murder, murderer, savage, shield, spikes, Stand Your Ground, Stand Your Ground law, thug, Trayvon Martin, viking, viking warrior
Choose Your Poison
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Tags: Barack Obama, Centrist Democrats, corporate deregulation, deficit, healthcare, healthcare reform, Medicaid, Medicare, Obama, patent medicine, Paul Ryan, placebo, poison, prescription, quack medicine, Reaganomics, Republican, Republicans, Roger Ailes, snake oil, sugar pills, tax cuts for the rich
Max ROMney
Saturday, March 31, 2012
I was watching this popular Youtube video about a week ago, and a segment at the end with a bunch of Mitt Romneys on televisions screens made me realize that the candidate looks a lot like Max Headroom, the “computer-generated celebrity” from the 1980s Coca-Cola used as the pitchman for their disastrous New Coke product line…
Humbugs
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Tags: birth control, Dorothy, GOP, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Oz, Presidential Primary, Republican, Republican Party, Republican primary, Republicans, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Ruby Slippers, Toto, Wizard of Oz, women, women's issues, yellow brick road
The War Room
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Tags: 9/12 Fox, aerial surveillance, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bible, Big Board, bomb, Curveball, D&D, dice, Doctor Strangelove, elephant, Fox, General Buck Turgidson, gold, GOP, GOP elephant, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Joe Biden, Krusty the Clown, Leon Panetta, military intelligence, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, nuclear bomb, nuclear weapons, nuke, nuke club, nukes, Obama, President Obama, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, satellite photo, war room
Hard-Earned
Friday, March 9, 2012
This cartoon, of course, refers to the latest controversy belched forth by perennial conservative blowhard Rush Limbaugh, who called Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” (and creepily argued that she owed him sex tapes) on his radio program, following her Congressional testimony on the importance of birth control to women’s health…
Barack Obama: Capitalist Lion Tamer
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Tags: Barack Obama, circus, debt, deficit, Economy, elephant, lion, lion tamer, monkey skills are best, national debt, Obama, President Obama, roar, top hat, whip