Kevin Kallaugher's work for The Sun and The Economist has appeared in more than 100 publications worldwide, including Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Pravda, Krokodil, Daily Yomiuri, The Australian, New York Times, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, and The Washington Post. His cartoons are distributed worldwide by Cartoonarts International and the New York Times Syndicate.
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ConserveGov said, 6 months ago
Thank God the Spendocrats can no longer ram through idiotic bills before even reading them. Sorry Nancy.
braindead08 said, 6 months ago
^ Like Medicare Part D?
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Which was NOT paid for BTW.
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But it’s okay if a Republican does it.
ODon said, 6 months ago
@ConserveGov
Still playing with the misstatement of what she actually said. Someday take a moment and read her full statement, then comment from a point of knowledge not blind acceptance.
Redkaycei Repoc said, 6 months ago
@ODon
Good luck with that… it’s way too reasonable for reactionaries to actually do the work. Blind acceptance is soooooo much easier.
Radish
said, 6 months ago
Cantor appears more arrogant than ever.
Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago
Had he not had the tea pot on top of his head I would have thought he was a normal Republican. But since he had a tea pot he must be LOONEY TOONS!!!!!! What are they thinking? Pay more to a wasteful government in taxes???? Why don’t the democrats just ASK everyone who believes taxes should be higher to pay more? Wouldn’t that make much more sense?
Clark Kent said, 6 months ago
Reminds me of “tailgunner joe” mccarthy.
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@mr ima, raise the taxes on the rich to 75% like they were in the 1960’s. JFK lowered them from 91% to 75% but closed most of the loopholes which brought in more money to the treasury, including from his own family. BTW, why did you put a Mr in front of your name? And does it start with a lower case L or an upper case i? Also, are you male, female or other?
Jase99 said, 6 months ago
The Republicans controlled Congress for 6 of the 8 years Bush was in office. They spent so much, they had to raise the debt ceiling each year. How ironic it was the Republicans who demanded an artificial debt ceiling during the Clinton Administration.
Respectful Troll said, 6 months ago
I like the cartoon. In WW1, it was the French who first installed a forward facing machine gun on an aircraft. It was the Germans who perfected the guns’ ability to shoot through propellers without destroying the plane. I’ve always assumed rear facing guns, like the one in the picture, had stops to prevent the tail gunner from raking bullets through the tail and wings of the aircraft.
The Republicans do seem to be damaging their own “aircraft”, or brand, by taking shots at many of the constituency upon which they are going to depend in order to remain viable. And just as it took enemies to perfect a weapon of war, it will take these two enemies- Rep and Dem- to refloat this ship of state that is our nation.
I particularly like the look the tail gunner is giving the pilot in the third frame. He is furious with his republican ‘leader’ for "misleading him. Yet, if he had done his JOB, he would have looked to the aircraft’s six, and held fire until he saw his target. Bullets are a finite quantity on an aircraft, just as money is a finite quantity in an economy. Bullets have to be conserved until needed, and then properly targeted where they will do the most ‘good.’ During the first years of our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, money was wasted. From Blackwater, to Halliburton to the policies enacted by Rumsfeld and Cheney, a great deal of our current national debt was accrued during this time. It was only after Barack Obama came to office the true costs of the war was added to our debt and his reward for honesty was for Republicans to blame him for increasing the debt. This reminds me of when I cut some store credit cards years ago and then discovered my credit rating had dropped because the amount of “money” i could access was gone.
In 2010, Boehnor was walking away from his negotiations with Obama and with a sigh of satisfaction as he leaned against the back wall of the elevator, a reporter asked him if he was pleased with the outcome. I saw the video, he smiled and said, “I got 95% of what I wanted, I’m happy.”
He know Obama was elected on the promise that the wealthy would pay more in taxes, but Boehner also wants Obama to pick out what entitlements are bartered. It is alot like the debates between Obama/Romney. In the first debate/negotiation, Obama took the loss. We’re in the second negotiation/debate, and Boehnor is facing Obama 2.0 and doesn’t like it. Especially since Norquist and other hardline conservatives are willing to see the whole country go back into recession, even depression, in order to prove that THIS TIME, trickle down economics will work and the JOB Creators will start creating jobs.
But why didn’t they do that between 2004 and 2012?
Respectfully,
& Happy Holidayze,
C.
mikefive said, 6 months ago
@ODon
@Redkaycei Repoc
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I’ve read her statement and listened to the sound bite. Only by stretch and spin can the “read it after we pass it” part be labeled a simple misstatement.
ODon said, 6 months ago
@mikefive
“But we have to pass the bill so you can find what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”
That’s one way to say stop, look and listen to what the bill is, not the ongoing skewing of those who oppose it.
And after reading her full sentence you know that “read it after we pass it” were not her words but a purposeful misrepresentation.
Jim Pallas
said, 6 months ago
Has a kind of S. Clay Wilson quality. Nice.
ARodney said, 6 months ago
No, we aren’t ignoring Obama’s four years. Unlike any Republican president since Eisenhower, he’s reduced the deficit every year. Now he’s proposed a common sense set of initiatives to keep at it while improving the economy. Naturally, the GOP, who have no actual plan of their own, are calling it “not serious.” Yet they have no policies to propose, since (a) none of them are popular so they want the Democrats to propose them, (b) none of them make any sense to anyone who knows anything about economics, and © none of them would actually help reduce the deficit.
1opinion said, 6 months ago
@HOWGOZIT
“But you continue to ignore the four years of The Messiah, the liberal god.”
Most people now know about Jesus. Are you that obtuse?
ahab
said, 6 months ago
@Respectful Troll
My father, born and raised in Harleem, the Netherlands, sat at an elementary school desk with Anthony Fokker’s name carved in it. Anthony was born in the Dutch East Indies, but was brought to Harleem by his coffee plantation owning father, along with his sister to get a Dutch education. We know him because of the Fokker airplane designs. He never finished High School.