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Gary Markstein cut his cartooning teeth while doodling in the margins of his grade-school homework. Now he makes a living by skewering pompous public figures and politicians of every political stripe. Markstein is an artist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and was previously the cartoonist for the Tribune Newspapers in Arizona.
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toasteroven said, about 1 month ago
And here I thought it was Reagan who consulted horoscopes.
Speaking of horoscopes, here’s Obama’s, courtesy of the nation’s finest news source:
“You’ve never been able to bear the sight of blood. Luckily for you, concentrated arrangements of sulfuric acid will liquefy your retinas long before the radial arm saw starts in.”
We may be in for some trouble.
cjr53 said, about 1 month ago
Let’s start with, Fire all of your Republican advisors, cabinet members and staffers.
Turn a deaf ear to the party of No. They’re doing it to you.
You can still build relationships with the rest of the world.
They can join you or leave America, W & Crew said so when they had the White House, and both houses.
striper77 said, about 1 month ago
It was Hillary that done the sorcery in the White House.
Each democrat in the white house brings shame to the white house and the country.
believecommonsense
said,
about 1 month ago
How did Nancy Reagan get involved in this?
toaster, say what?
toasteroven said, about 1 month ago
That horoscope was from the Onion.
KIMBER53
said,
about 1 month ago
more fact than fiction!
charliekane said, about 1 month ago
Gee, tripe, I was thinkin’ the same thing. Only ‘bout Republicans!
But more seriously, what a mess we were left with. This should have been our “righteous” war. But instead, it was bumfungled and sent to the back of the line.
The Prez needs time to figure how we pull a rabbit out of this hat.
dtroutma said, about 1 month ago
It was Nancy’s astrologer who was “consulted”. As to bringing shame to the White House, Lebanon, Grenada, Nicaragua, Libya, Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq— I’d say there is more than enough shame for Republican occupants, without even mentioning the no-bid contracting, and ripoffs by “buddies”.
striper77 said, about 1 month ago
The entire Declaration of Independence, including all 56 signatures, is
contained on a single hand-written sheet of paper.
The full and complete original Constitution of the United States of America
is printed on six pages. The first four pages contain the basic text of the
founding document. Page five is the letter of transmittal to the British
government. And the sixth and final page contains all ten of the initial
amendments, known as the Bill of Rights.
Karl Marx laid out The Communist Manifesto in a mere 23 pages.
The English translation of Dostoevski’s Crime and Punishment is 718
pages, while Tolstoy’s War and Peace weighs in at 1,225 pages. And try as
she might, even Ayn Rand could manage only 1,069 pages in her magnum opus,
Atlas Shrugged.
My personal, large-print New King James copy of the Bible contains 1,426
pages of text, a 64-page concordance and six pages of maps.
What do these momentous documents have in common with each other? They all
contain fewer pages than the bloated Senate health care bill, S. 1796, which
totals a ridiculous 1,502 pages.
In other words, the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, the
father of modern Communism, three of history’s most prolific Russian writers and
even God Almighty Himself didn’t need as many words to get their entire message
across as the self-important blowhards in Congress trying to express themselves
on one single issue: health care.
But let’s be honest. What’s going on in Washington right now is not really
about health care; it is about control. The Senate leaders, in conjunction with
the White House, are doing the same thing they did with the stimulus bill, the
omnibus bill, the budget bill and the cap and trade bill. Thousands of pages of
rules, regulations, restrictions and, most of all, astronomical spending. They
believe that if they so overwhelm the American people with mind-numbing
legalese, we will simply take their word for it that this poison pill isn’t
going to hurt us.
On top of the already burdensome language of this monstrosity, they have made
it a moving target. It started with House Resolution 3200. Now it has morphed
into the Senate version. But they are not even close to being finished with it.
In fact, the current, so-called Baucus bill, with its “moderate” approach to
health care reform, is merely the framework for the shell game Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid is playing with our health care system. Even if S. 1796 were
acceptable in a free society – which it isn’t – it in no way reflects how the
final bill will read.
President Barack Obama and the domineering Democrat leadership in Congress
never talk about freedom. They whine about “fairness” and “security,” but the
word “liberty” is not in their vocabulary. The Founders would have considered
the current “reform” going on in Congress as nothing short of criminal. They
would rebel against this tyranny as surely as they revolted against the
despotism of King George.
charliekane said, about 1 month ago
Gee, trip, focus, would ya.
Da toon’s about Afghanistan!
lalas said, about 1 month ago
Ah yes…. the King of Mindless Cut and Paste has returned. Great original thinking you got there stripper.
toasteroven said, about 1 month ago
Format, striper, format!
Magnaut
said,
about 1 month ago
77…I think you took some paint offf the left hand turn signs
striper77 said, about 1 month ago
The liberals are like pigs in line at the slaughter house believing in the Obama change.
Corosive Frog said, about 1 month ago
Obama, you should read the Nostradamus’s Centuries. It won’t tell ya what to do, but it tells you how it will end up, and it’s not pretty.
oldlegodad
said,
about 1 month ago
It’s time to stop comparing Obama to Hitler.
Hitler got the Olympics for Berlin
cdward said, 27 days ago
Why would anyone ever belief anything from AFA? They only accept their own perverse brand of religion.
treered said, 27 days ago
if some planning had been done 8 years ago, we would not be there now.
that’s the problem we have now, a president who thinks!