Jim Morin’s drawings won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1996. He shared the Pulitzer in 1983 with other members of the Miami Herald editorial board, and was a Pulitzer finalist in 1977 and 1990. His work is syndicated internationally by the New York Times/CWS Syndicate.
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ConserveGov said, 2 months ago
Riiiiight. You forgot that they also like to throw old grandmas in wheelchairs into traffic.Complete Moron troll toon.
TJDestry
said, 2 months ago
It’s okay. He’s against gay rights and kept silent during Argentina’s dictatorship. His base values are right in line with GOP legislators!
Adrian Snare said, 2 months ago
The so-called GOP must not kill the messenger. Instead they must clean up their act….much as Islam should do the same…
Respectful Troll said, 2 months ago
Ok, Pope Francis ‘sounds’ good, but now that he’s in his tenured position of ultimate Catholic authority, we have to wait to see what he actually does. However, the cartoon speaks more to our American conflict than that of the church or Argentina.
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If, as we read Morins words and look at the smoke, we consider Separation of Church and state, both parties should say “No” to religion influencing legislation. One says this knowing many of the social issues dividing Americans are based in theology, mostly Old Testament. If the New Testament’s red lettering was used as a guide, legislators would be compelled to do things for the “…least of these.”, and to love their neighbors as they love themselves, etc. In which case, the smoke would be white, and Yes.
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If we consider the resounding NO to mean Republicans are against the concepts Mr. Morin lists as character traits of the new pontiff, he ignores – and insults – millions of good Republicans of all belief systems who give time, money, and support to local charities despite, in many cases, being in need themselves.
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While the word Conclave implies a focus only on Republican legislators, one easily missed by rank and file conservatives; and while too many Republican legislators have taken positions that sacrifice the “least of these” – our disenfranchised American neighbors – it ignores the sad fact that too many Dems are also supporting the corporations, banks, and legislation that prevent Americans from realizing the kind of opportunity Americans came to expect (and take for granted) after WW2.
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Mr. Morin’s cartoon is divisive and unhelpful as it lays no strong foundation for civil discourse, consensus building, and offers no ideas for improving the situation.
Respectfully,
C.
ghostkeeper said, 2 months ago
@Respectful Troll
It’s not that there are no ideas for improving the situation, but to do so means dealing with Republicans. Who are against anything that isn’t exactly what they want. Who have to win, and not only win at all costs, but also eliminate the opposition.
mextea said, 2 months ago
maybe the democrats could actually VOTE on the gop proposals…or maybe even propose a budget themselves…oops…that’s asking too much!
Tigger
said, 2 months ago
@ghostkeeper
Same applies to Obama, he must be a Republican
Ms. Ima said, 2 months ago
A responsible budget would be ignored by the dems. Business as usual.
nighthawks
said, 2 months ago
ah, but fear not, oh staunch conservatives! the new Pope is STILL against abortions and gays (and their marriages)
motivemagus said, 2 months ago
@ConserveGov
I take you you have not actually read the Ryan budget….which is exactly like his previous budget which kills Medicare, gives more money to the rich, taxes the middle-class and poor, and does nothing to reduce Pentagon bloat.
By contrast, here’s Pope Francis as of 2009:
He criticized his government’s “immoral, illegitimate and unjust” economic system, saying, “Rather than preventing that, it seems they have opted for making inequalities even greater. Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.”
fredgold said, 2 months ago
@Ms. Ima
You know that how? The past few budgets have been anything BUT responsible.
Dycel
said, 2 months ago
Lets see the Ryan budget has been brought to the floor and voted on some 38 times!
It has been pronounced DOA before every vote!
The Presidents budget recommendations have been ignored by the House repubbies even though it utilizes a number of repubby recommendations they supported before Obama took office!
The House creates the budget, the Senate revises the house budget, the President signs it into being. Since the repubby House cant get over their my way their the highway budget, repeating the same action expecting a different result is by Albert Einstein’s definition “Insanity”.
The only ones more insane are the faux noise bus bunnies who refuse to accept reality over their black hole rhetoric.
Nancy
said, 2 months ago
Not only do I find some comments disrespectful, I have no idea how one relates the horrible mess in the US with a new Pope. I guess stretching the truth is PC today.
californicated1 said, 2 months ago
@TJDestry
You might find any Papal candidate unsatisfactory when it comes to what they did in their past.
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The previous Pope had to deal with allegations that he cooperated with the Nazi’s in his youth and was even a member of the Hitler Youth Corps, much like every other German kid born in the 1930s and early-1940s had to be.
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The one before that was accused of his ties to the Home Army by the successors of the Lublin Committee, Stalin’s Polish Government-in-Exile created after the news of the discoveries of mass graves at Katyn.
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The one before that had to deal with accusations that he worked for the Mussolini Regime and after Badoglio took over in Rome in 1943, switched his loyalties.
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The situations in which these people find themselves sort of determine what makes them Pope these days.
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And when it comes to Latin America’s past, just like one may find in Spain’s past with El Caudillo or even Italy’s past with Mussolini that the church had to work with the local government to continue functioning at the hierarchical levels, while the local parish priest was the one working directly with the people who were suffering, as we saw in both El Salvador and Nicaragua during their civil wars in the 1980s.
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And if an African Cardinal made pope, there probably would have been similar allegations, especially if that Cardinal came from Rwanda, Angola or Mozambique.
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And if the Papal candidate were Croatian, we would be wondering about his ties to either Ante Pavlic’s regime during World War II, their ties to Maspolitik in the late-1960s and early-1970s or their ties to the Tito and even the Milosevic regimes before Yugoslavia broke up and then we would be wondering what they did in the wars that followed and whether or not they either aided the sick and the dying in Osijek or even Srebrenica or if they sided with the butchers doing the killing.
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And if the Papal candidate was either North American or European, we would probably be questioning their ties and their decisions in the church hierarchy in relation to the causes that this church seems to champion here in North America, especially in the US, or their ties to any of the scandals that plague the church in North America and Europe these days.
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So at this point, none of the candidates in that group were above any of the scandals that parts of the Church in which it found itself all over the world in recent times.
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And like any gerontocracy out there there, these committees usually find themselves the “compromise candidate” that they will back until another youthful leader like John-Paul II comes along, who may reside on Campus Vaticanus for decades.
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So instead of one Chernenko-like leader, the Papacy may have two until somebody younger comes along, like in their 50s.
mickey1339
said, 2 months ago
@Respectful Troll
Very well spoken Mr. Downs…