Good morning, and Happy Lord’s Day! Here were my top five six favorite political cartoons this week. Be sure to vote for your fav in the poll at the bottom of the post!
by Rick McKee at Cagle.com…
by Michael Ramirez at Townhall.com (no surprise to pro-lifers)…
a twofer by Lisa Benson at Townhall.com…
by Dana Summers at Townhall.com…
by Drew Sheneman at GoComics.com…
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I think #1 is pretty funny, and for once had seen it in a paper, before here.
The ones about immigration – oh for Pete’s sake…. Any sitting President will have people thinking he’s not doing enough, and others thinking he’s doing too much.
I’m voting for #4 this week.
“Any sitting President will have people thinking he’s not doing enough, and others thinking he’s doing too much.”
Wait, there’s seriously people who think Obama is doing too much? I don’t think I’ve heard that one before.
I don’t think the facts matter when it comes to Obama anymore – I think people have painted what they believe is true, and that just drives the narrative.
The S&P is at an all-time high…but Obama is a socialist
Obamacare will be a failure and a job killer…and the unemployment rate has plunged, as well as the rate of uninsured
Obama is an out of the control spender…yet the deficit related to GDP is lower than the average over the last 40 years
The GOP is out of ideas, they are out of strong minds and politicians to rally behind – so you just get wave after wave of angst where the people complaining have usually either created the issue, or have no actual idea and plan how they would deal with it.
I personally think Obama’s been a bit of a failure – Obamacare didn’t go far enough, and he’s been way too moderate. America needs a shake-up and a focus on the middle class – those doing it right – raising kids, working hard – we keep getting squished as the GOP focuses on the rich, and the Dems focus on the poor. Obama’s been far too influenced by big business and special interests to make the changes that need to be changed.
Time for a good third party.
Hi Doug,
Growing up I loved Archie…and so did my kids.
I hope they don’t wreck a great comic with all this PC garbage.
Too late, Mary, Archie is sentenced to die by the PC firing squad.
Yes – Archie is done…killed by the right wing. :-)
Well one everyone can agree on about Obama is that his approval ratings are in the toilet. The only group that remains overwhelmingly loyal are African Americans; he is even losing support among Hispanics.
Mortimer, the God that I serve does not bless the killing of the innocent.
Phillymiss –
Given the polarized nature of things, what is the top approval rating that you think a President could get these days (without some sort of disaster that historically, pulls everyone together in the short term).
I don’t think anybody could sustain much higher than 46 or 47% for more than a very short amount of time.
Ex-GOP,
The Dems are trying to focus US on the poor. They wave them around like a shiny object browbeating us to send more money down the Treasury drain.
And the other distraction is vilifying the 1% – who vote mostly for them because they know it will still be be status quo. They can use their tax loopholes, boom the stockmarket and say, “Yeah, yeah. We’re greedy.”
Was it Senator Moynihan who said we’re “defining decency down”? Well, it seems you’re not alone in “defining economic success down”. Exchanging full-time for part-time jobs does not a boom make.
Gotta vote for Archie. I loved the Riverdale gang all of my life.
I remember The Archie Show on Saturday morning cartoons. Younger readers may not realize that Sabrina the Teenage Witch is a character from the Archie universe. The 1990’s TV show starring Melissa Joan Hart did not mention any characters from Riverdale, but that is where she came from — back in the early 70’s.
Where do 8-to-12-year-olds go to enjoy their innocence anymore?
Ex-GOP says:
I don’t think anybody could sustain much higher than 46 or 47% for more than a very short amount of time.
Remember when George W. Bush held a mid-40’s approval rating for so long?
Every day, the press reminded us of how unpopular he was.
Mary: Growing up I loved Archie…and so did my kids.
I hope they don’t wreck a great comic with all this PC garbage.
Mary, you are going back a looong time (at least for me)…. I remember reading the Archie comics. There were frustrating parts for me – it always seemed that Reggie or Veronica would be up to something “bad” and though it was obvious, the other characters were too dorky to see what was going on.
Yet in the end, they would be foiled by some wacky circumstance, and Archie, Jughead and Betty would be laughing.
Have they really started having “PC garbage” in them? I have not heard anything like that, but have heard nothing at all, there.
Ex-GOP: I personally think Obama’s been a bit of a failure – Obamacare didn’t go far enough, and he’s been way too moderate. America needs a shake-up and a focus on the middle class – those doing it right – raising kids, working hard – we keep getting squished as the GOP focuses on the rich, and the Dems focus on the poor. Obama’s been far too influenced by big business and special interests to make the changes that need to be changed.
Time for a good third party.
Ex-G, I know you’ve heard it all before, but who, really, would not have been a bit of a failure, or even a great deal of a failure?
My opinion – the time for a good third party was at least 30+ years ago, i.e. in the first two years of Reagan as President. Or, much better yet, in the 1970s. And as a practical matter – one where things might actually have a decent chance of working out materially better than they have, in the 1950s/1960s.
Stocks are up high, but adjust that for inflation and the jury-rigging of the S&P, for example, i.e. weak stocks being dropped, to be replaced by strong ones, and what do we have?
New debt/GDP is “below the average of the last 40 years,” yeah, but that is not saying anything necessarily good.
The rate of reported unemployment has indeed declined, but things are skewed by lots of people not being included anymore as they’ve quit looking for work, and by lots of people working part-time, and by lots of people being “under-employed,” compared to any “economic recovery” of the past 50 years. Our economy is relative anemic, overall, compared to those times.
Comparing things to GDP, to past times, etc., does not alter the fact that the deficit is huge, that the debt and the unfunded liabilities are titanic, and that there is no rational reason to believe that the debt will be paid in meaningful fashion. It is as it has always been – the debt will either be hyperinflated out of existence (pretty much a sure thing) – the debts may be “paid,” at least for a while, albeit in Dollars that tend toward the limit of worthlessness, or we will have a deflationary collapse where the debt is repudiated (the gov’t is steadfast in maintaining that this will not happen, and it’s much more politically easy to do the other).
Hans: The Dems are trying to focus US on the poor. They wave them around like a shiny object browbeating us to send more money down the Treasury drain.
And the other distraction is vilifying the 1% – who vote mostly for them because they know it will still be be status quo. They can use their tax loopholes, boom the stockmarket and say, “Yeah, yeah. We’re greedy.”
Was it Senator Moynihan who said we’re “defining decency down”? Well, it seems you’re not alone in “defining economic success down”. Exchanging full-time for part-time jobs does not a boom make.
Hans, you’re right that things are not good, economically. We are facing insurmountable fiscal and demographic realities. This is because we are well past the point where it is politically possible to fix things, there.
This is the case regardless of Democrat/Republican.
Democrats trying to focus the US on the poor. Yeah. And the Republicans are trying to make the US ignore that 1% you mention, the 1% with massively unbalanced access to the politicians, the good old “military-industrial complex” that Eisenhower wisely warned us about, and the big banks, that have an abysmally abnormal amount of power in the US.
Really good book by Nomi Prins, All the Presidents’ Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power. Without regard to political party in the White House, the big banks and the big banking families, and the Federal Reserve – which they created for their own benefit – are intimately linked with Presidents, right to the present day, and going back some 100+ years. No way this will change, before it’s too late.
The Republicans may not want the US to focus on the poor, so much, but they do seek to make much of the lower and middle class focus on those other people that they fear and/or feel are “lower” than them. Same as the Dems, it’s mainly an attempt to get votes, all else be damned.
Del: Gotta vote for Archie. I loved the Riverdale gang all of my life.
I remember The Archie Show on Saturday morning cartoons. Younger readers may not realize that Sabrina the Teenage Witch is a character from the Archie universe. The 1990?s TV show starring Melissa Joan Hart did not mention any characters from Riverdale, but that is where she came from — back in the early 70?s.
Del, didn’t know that. “Sugar, oh honey honey….. You are my candy girl….”
Very good, level-headed comments from you on the “Jackson, MS” thread. The one with “Unbelievable video…” Should that have like ten exclamation points after it? :P
That turned into a pretty wacky, free-wheeling thread, with plot twists and turns.
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Where do 8-to-12-year-olds go to enjoy their innocence anymore?
Many nieces and nephews here. I think that if they go, they do it when they are 6-to-10. For many, by 11 or 12, it’s too late. ‘Tis a different world now.
Doug,
I meant to say the Dems focus the attention of “we the people” – us – not the U.S., on the poor. But same difference. Not that that is a bad thing for the private individual, but leaning on the government too heavily is robbing Peter to pay Paul
The “One percent” is more in the pocket of the Dems than the Repubs. They have their lawyers and accountants to weasel their way out of taxes, no matter how much they’re raised.
And since the GOP hasn’t been much better in fiscal responsibility, they are free to use the shiny reputation of the “caring Party” as a public relations shield.
As to the bigger topic, it’s remarkable that a bunch studio technicians could be thrown together as “The Archies” and put out a mega-one-hit-wonder like “Sugar”.
Similar to “The Monkees”, who I liked just about as much as The Beatles.
Trivia: Riverdale was based on Haverhill, Massachusetts (I have relatives there.) Tom Bergeron of Dancing With the Stars and America’s Funniest Home Videos is from there. Now that’s trivia trivia.
Hans: The “One percent” is more in the pocket of the Dems than the Repubs. They have their lawyers and accountants to weasel their way out of taxes, no matter how much they’re raised.
I would say it’s more that the Republicans are in the pocket of the 1%….. But agreed that the Democrats are as well, to a significant degree, Hans.
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leaning on the government too heavily is robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Yeah, and we’ve all “leaned” on it to some extent, what with the deficit spending, the entitlement programs, the tax breaks, etc. It is unsustainable. People are talking about “doing more…” The reality is that we cannot continue doing as much as before.
It’s hard when kids are involved, but being poor is “supposed” to suck pretty bad. Where else does the incentive to work come from? When we try and put a “floor” under people as far as money, we’ve taken away the incentive for people that are satisfied with that amount.
As Del said on another thread, sometimes what a poor woman wants is “money for a car and gasoline, cigarettes and decorated fingernails.” Throw in a bunch of tattoos and a backwards baseball hat, and then you’ve got the man covered too.
And of course that’s gonna be unfair to a lot of people, but it’s partly in jest.
Hi Doug 12:20am
A loooong time? Why you little stinker! :)
I remember Jughead with his “crown” and Betty and Veronica competing for Archie’s affections. Veronica came from a wealthy family, I think her father was a banker.
Anyone my real comic book idol was Wonder Woman. I also liked Superman. WW had her magic tiara, lasso and bracelets, and flew to Paradise Island in her Phantom Jet to visit her mother Queen Hippolyta and the other Amazons. Now her outfit etc. is viewed as “sexist” and not PC but I thought she was pretty cool, especially that she could fly! Was I jealous! I didn’t pay her outfit much mind, of course superheroes wear great costumes!
My husband liked the TV series, especially when WW ran in her costume. He’d nearly fall off the edge of the couch.
Superman comics even had a mermaid, Laurie Lemaris, who lived in the underwater kingdom of Atlantis. She wore a minidress, probably to get past the censors.
Comics were such fun Doug. Now they’re violent, gorey, PC, and supposed to make social statements. Good grief people lighten up and enjoy a little fun and fantasy.