Politico cartoonist and illustrator Matt Wuerker, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (a finalist in 2009 & 2010) and Herblock Prize in 2010, offers a rich visual style and keen eye on the political circus, served up with cartoons that are not just funny but also artful.
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Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
The Tea Partier Republicans want it their way, 100%. To them coming to an agreement is against their religion.
ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago
Be bipartisan? Are you kidding? Obama tried that for four years, enough already! There is no point in trying to be bipartisan with Republicans! Their understanding of bipartisanship is ‘do it my way!" Forget it! When it comes to Republicans, kick ’em hard in the Carolinas! No negotiation, nothing! And no apologies for it either, it’s called ’reap what you sow!"
Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago
O’s wants have nothing to do with reality. Raising minimum wage will kill jobs. There are enough gun laws, start to enforce them. Taxes kill jobs. The earth won’t react to climate change taxes.
O is worthless.
At least this cartoon has to do with Valentines Day.
It should be O shooting the American taxpayer with his hate arrows. Oh, wait, it does.
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said, 3 months ago
@Ms. Ima
Obama’s hate arrows? You obviously live in the faux noise neither regions out uranis way.
So your vision of the needs of the American people is to screw them just like the repubby’s in Congress do by their obfuscation of the needs of the people over the wants of their special interests handlers.
Toon should have the hits to the head instead of the ass, guess he’s going for a brain shot.
Rickapolis said, 3 months ago
To the GOP, the word bipartisan means giving them everything they want and getting nothing in return, Which, by the bye, is why they lost the election. Except for the far right extremists everyone is catching on. Angry white men are on the way out. It’s the 21st century. Time to join us.
StCleve72 said, 3 months ago
Groucho sings the Republican response to the S of the U: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtMV44yoXZ0
skipcarlsen said, 3 months ago
Hey Obamanites! There will be no deterioration of our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, no minimum wage/inflation generating, no further depression causing tax hikes, and no ‘sky is falling’ climate bills passed during the rest of Obama’s lame dead duck tenure in office! Get your heads out of your arses and smell the roses it ain’t going to happen.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago
re: night-gaunt
of course. They began to return the favor. Since the late 1990s, it’s been “my way or the highway”. Senator Dashiell, for example, was called “the Great Obstructor” because he did over 100 filibusters and not one of them could be considered to be based on principle. Right and wrong didn’t enter his calculations, as evidenced by such matters as Homestead Mining, where the public was left a mess.
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The polarization between the parties is now almost complete. It’s one thing to compromise on unimportant things. How does one compromise with good and evil? And so each time the Democrats in the last four years came up with their latest idea to destroy the culture, it resulted in a wall. No government can function for long that way.
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A historic parallel of infighting between principle and moral evil is France in 1939-1940. The president of France saw the danger, tried to take various steps to get his nation ready, but was stopped by petty garbage every step of the way by those without morals. He tried to resign more than once, exasperated. The rest is history: when Germany invaded, France was not ready.
ThePupUnbound! said, 3 months ago
He left out curing cancer and walking on water…something for next year?
corzak said, 3 months ago
@ghostkeeper
“Be bipartisan? Are you kidding? Obama tried that for four years, enough already!”
You’re absolutely correct. The rest of the world is moving and changing. The US has a lot of work to do stay in the game.
The Republican party has made it very clear that they want no part in governing. Want no part in investing in the future. Fine. Let them go off to Glennbeckville and argue among themselves about birth control, protecting white male sensitivities, black panthers in Benghazi or whatever.
The rest of us have a lot of work to do.
pirate227 said, 3 months ago
You reap what you sow, Dumb(o).
Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
@HOWGOZIT
Wrong as usual. The Democrats bent over backwards (too far in my opinion) to accommodate the demands of the Republicans but the Tea Party fanatics shot them down again and again. They wanted their way and no other.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
@Nabuquduriuzhur
However it can be shown that the Democrats haven’t gone to the right as far as the Republicans and definitely not Left ward.
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Reid had the chance to return the filibuster to its proper state—-you must spend hours to stop something unlike now when you wave your hand and stop it. Neither side should have it so easy right now. The Republicans have made themselves too far into extremist right to get elected over all.
SABRSteve said, 3 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
What’s so fanatic about a group of folks who are alarmed at a National Debt of $16.5 trillion, $58.2 trillion in Total Debt, and $122.7 trillion in US Unfunded Liabilities? I’m not a Tea Party person, but I do get what they are concerned about.
paytonb said, 3 months ago
@ghostkeeper
Obama was never bipartisan in any way shape or form. Why do so many list to the right and left wing mouthpieces and completely ignore what’s actually going on in front of them??