Clever and unpredictable, Ariail skewers politicians on both sides of the ideological fence with award-winning cartoons drawn for the Spartanburg, S.C., Herald-Journal. A celebrated artist, Ariail is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist (1995 and 2000) and was recently named the 2012 winner of the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons, presented by the National Press Foundation.
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Radish
said, 3 months ago
Congress is on vacation.
edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago
People like to complain about Presidents taking too many vacations. Why not? If Congress is away, he can’t get anything done anyway! Go golfing. Go yachting. Go brush cutting. Since Congress is supposed to pass laws, wait for them to act.
edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago
I believe Mark Twain or Will Rogers said “No man or his money is safe while Congress is in session.”
russell5419 said, 3 months ago
Congress is on vacation 365 day’s a year.
masterskrain said, 3 months ago
@edinbaltimore
Mark Twain’s quote is:
No One’s Life, Liberty, or Property is safe while the Legislature is in Session!"
Will Rogers asked:
“If ‘Pro’ and ‘Con’ are opposites, does that make ‘Congress’ the opposite of ‘Progress’?”
M Ster said, 3 months ago
@HOWGOZIT
Boehner is also supposed to be a leader, is supposed to lead the House, and is 3rd in line to be President.
ansonia
said, 3 months ago
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Can you give me some examples of how “tea baggers” are “like ostriches” and evidence that shows the “majority of Americans” are “sick and tired” of them?
How are they “crybabies”?
Actually, who are they? I never see any group labeled as such. I’m unsure how they are “living by the sequester.” That doesn’t make sense.
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But where is obama in all this? Why isn’t he out there leading?
When he came out and said all the horrible things that were going to happen, he was not talking from a position of power. He was speaking as though he had nothing to do with outcomes. He was defining an “enemy,” the Republicans, for the benefit of the low information voters as though these are things Republicans WANT, That’s a lie and intelligent people, Democrats as well as Republicans know it. Republicans (and tea"baggers") do NOT want this. Sequestration was HIS idea.
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Actually I think obama may want the sequester. He can just sit back and see all the cuts in defense, which he wants anyway, and then he can say, “It’s the Republicans’ fault.” Obama is not leading. He is not governing. Where is he??
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Republicans want to prevent this country from going bankrupt. You think the sequestration would be devastating? Bankruptcy will destroy the value of everything we’ve created as a nation, shut down every federal agency and program, and create possible civil unrest as we saw in Greece. Republicans want to prevent the destruction of incomes and savings and pensions and home values and shutting down farms and businesses. If we continue with the current policy of “tax and spend” with no fiscal responsibility, this will happen.
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BTW, the cost of sequestration is about $85 billion.
To put this in perspective, the cost of relief aid for Sandy was $60 billion.
The federal budget is about $3.5 trillion dollars a year.
disgustedtaxpayer said, 3 months ago
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-deficits-20130220,0,1191274.story
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Excellent article, printed 2 pages landscape….O’s hometown newspaper editorial 2/20/13. Obama sent Jack Lew and Rob Nabors, staff members, to deliver the “Sequester Plot” (my term) to Dem.Reid in the Senate on 7/27/11.
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“Members of both parties voted for (it)…and Obama signed it into law.”
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Now that all time is gone…4 years without a Democrat Senate Budget….Obama’s voted down with ZERO “yes” votes….and the Democrats having rejected GOP House-passed Budgets with spending cuts….this President…(“what’s most immediately at stake is Obama’s credibility”)…takes to the friendly skies of the MSM to accuse the GOP of every dastardly deed possible to hurt Americans….Blame Game…gets a failing grade from the Chicago Trib’s editors.
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“….as March 1 approaches, Obama looks sequestered—-in denial of America’s debt crisis, and in denial of the consequence of his White House proposal.”
mickey1339
said, 3 months ago
Thanks to all for suggestions on how to get my system back to functioning with GC. Today I signed in, same problem, was reading a comic and my screen flashed and everything returned to normal. Go figure. I’m convinced it had something to do with Adobe Flash and my system. Anyway, considering the current toon.
@Ansonia and Disgustedtaxpayer. Both of you allude to a very good point about leadership. Leadership has failed on all three levels of government here. The president and congress are both finger pointing and doing nothing. What is lost in this issue is timing. Compromise and realistic economic planning takes time, it can’t be slammed together in some last minute deal just to avoid some arbitrary deadline. Yet when people have there arms folded and their attitudes in high gear, you can’t even start to make progress. Call them, email them, often. They need the heat turned up on them.
Mneedle said, 3 months ago
@Radish
And the President has been on vacation for over four years.
mickey1339
said, 3 months ago
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“The majority of Americans are sick and tired of these worthless tea bagging crybabies.”
Yes, who are these evil destroyers of society you so constantly rail on? Do they have so much power that they can obstruct the function of government? Or maybe they are a convenient target for abuse because the greater body of congress is dysfunctional.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago
@HOWGOZIT
President Obama can lead the republicans to a rational solution that benefits the mass of American citizens but he can not get them to put the people before their party. So he is a leader, the republicans simply refuse to be led. Immediate case in point is the trouble Bohner is having getting his ilk to be led.
Rockngolfer said, 3 months ago
@mickey1339
I have trouble with the “people of walmart” and related sites like “youdrivewhat” and “white trash repairs.” Say I scroll down by turning the wheel in the middle of the mouse, and the picture gets stretched out, and you can’t do anything until it snaps in place.
Rockngolfer said, 3 months ago
@Sharuniboy
You also need 60 votes in the Senate to pass a budget, or anything other than renaming a post office.
mickey1339
said, 3 months ago
@Rockngolfer
Mouse wheel. This is a shot in the dark because it can be a bunch of things. First I would go to the Control panel > Mouse> Wheel and see what the setting is there. It might be set too low. Another thing that affects video refresh is the “refresh rate” on your video card/monitor. If it is not set correctly it can affect the integrity of the screen while scrolling. Like so many things with computers, it’s a shot in the dark. You might want to Google. “slow screen scrolling” and see what they come up with. Also making sure the drivers for your video card up to date is important. I hope something out of that helps.