Posts tagged "Reaganomics"
Romney/Ryan ‘Rithmetic
Saturday, October 6, 2012
![Romney/Ryan 'Rithmetic](http://thisishistorictimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/editorial-20121006-122x84.jpg)
The main topic of this cartoon is the vague budget proposed by the Romney/Ryan campaign, which includes cutting taxes in a manner that disproportionately favors the wealthy, and further ballooning defense spending to even more comically-enormous levels.
Mitt Romney Blows
Saturday, September 29, 2012
![Mitt Romney Blows](http://thisishistorictimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/editorial-20120929-122x84.jpg)
Mitt evidently doesn’t understand how fire works, which I guess puts him somewhere beyond most cavemen but well behind the average Medieval alchemist in terms of scientific knowledge…
Choose Your Poison
Saturday, April 7, 2012
![Choose Your Poison](http://thisishistorictimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/editorial-20120407-122x84.png)
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
![Max ROMney](http://thisishistorictimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/editorial-20120331-122x84.png)
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…
Grand Wizardry
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
![Grand Wizardry](http://thisishistorictimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/editorial-20120104-122x84.jpg)
I had a lot of fun with the details in this one. Longtime readers with good eyes may recognize the crystal ball (or palantir, for you Tolkien enthusiasts) from this cartoon in the upper-lefthand corner. The flat Earth globe in the corner opposite could be taken to relate to Thomas Friedman’s “World is Flat” economic ideology…