Rob Rogers is the award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. His cartoons have been vexing and entertaining readers in Pittsburgh since 1984. Syndicated by United Feature Syndicate, Rogers’ work also appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and Newsweek, among others.
Rogers has also been the curator of three national cartoon exhibitions, Too Hot to Handle: Creating Controversy through Political Cartoons (2003) and Drawn To The Summit: A G-20 Exhibition Of Political Cartoons (2009), both at The Andy Warhol Museum, and Bush Leaguers: Cartoonists Take on the White House (2007) at the American University Museum. Rogers is an active member (and past president) of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. His work received the 2000 Thomas Nast Award from the Overseas Press Club, the 1995 National Headliner Award, and numerous Golden Quills. In 1999 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
In 2009, Rogers celebrated 25 years as a Pittsburgh editorial cartoonist with the release of his book, No Cartoon Left Behind: The Best of Rob Rogers, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.
He is currently serving as board president of the ToonSeum, a cartoon museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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dtroutma
said, 6 months ago
Smaller script.
braindead08 said, 6 months ago
Ah, the Town Crier.
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The same guy who handed out tobacco lobbyists checks to other Republicans on the House floor .
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Supposedly, Republicans support keeping the tax cuts for the middle class. So why doesn’t the House vote on the Senate bill that accomplishes that?
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Could it possibly be — that Republicans don’t give a whit about the middle class? Espcially the NO brainer?
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It’s also good to remember that when Boehner talks about ‘protecting small business’, he’s talking about ‘small’ as defined only by the tax code. Those are hedge funds, doctors partnerships, Bain Capital, Bechtel, and especially Koch Industries..
mickey1339
said, 6 months ago
@braindead08
Agree or not, the logic on the part of the conservatives is just a matter of bargaining. They know that if they sign off on the senate bill the rest of the cuts (on the wealthy) expire on 12/31, the democrats have their concessions and will just kick the proverbial can on the rest of the package. Apparently they don’t believe the democrats will keep their word about addressing revision of the tax code and spending cuts on entitlements when congress reconvenes in 2013. So they refuse to sign off on the middle class cuts, risk appearing as the obstructionists and force the democrats to make concessions on entitlements. Politics is such a messy blood sport…
Chillbilly
said, 6 months ago
The tax will hit certain places hard, like NYC, Chicago and SF where $200,000 a year is a solid middle class income but a far cry from wealthy. But these are all deep blue places and in all likelihood, many of the $200k+ taxpayers support it. It’s a marginal rate after all.
treesareus said, 6 months ago
The US debt and unfunded liabilities of Medicare, SS etc. is growing at over $8 trillion a year, more than 50% of the gross domestic product. Someone must shout "NO!
walruscarver2000 said, 6 months ago
ROGERS IS LYING! No X-rays have ever revealed a brain in Boners head.
ODon said, 6 months ago
@treesareus
And why are they “unfunded” when the funds have been collected for years? Too busy taking the cash to fund war?
walruscarver2000 said, 6 months ago
@treesareus
“No” to what? No to taking care of the people who were required to pay into SS now that they are old? Taking care of the sick? Accepting the same responsibilities that every other industrialized nation in the world accepted years ago? Maybe we could say no to the military-industrial complex, or the subsidies to mega food companies, or the loopholes for “capital gains” etc., etc. instead.
Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago
Like Bohner has any power to do anything. The dems are running the country into bankruptcy. Republicans are standing back watching so they won’t take blame and can eventually bring the country back after O takes us over the edge.
mickey1339
said, 6 months ago
@Chillbilly
As a “sidebar” to that thought, many of those states and cities you mention also have very high state and local taxes, which could kick them up percentage wise pretty harshly, in some cases close to 50%. Add to that high property taxes and it could be quite a whack for those close to that $200 K line. Just a little more input….
mickey1339
said, 6 months ago
@walruscarver2000
“Maybe we could say no to the military-industrial complex, or the subsidies to mega food companies, or the loopholes for “capital gains” etc., etc. instead.”
Hoorah! I’m all for taking at whack at the military, corporate subsidies and a list of things I could add.
The big problem I have with this discussion is treatment of capital gains and dividends. For the Warren Buffets of the world, sock it to em. For the senior citizens (me and many friends) who worked our asses off most of our lives and fortunately could invest a little, dividends and cap gains can really affect us adversely. I’m so far under the $200 K level (dammit!) it doesn’t bear discussing and interest rates are almost zero for savings. I would love to plop a chunk of my retirement money in CD’s. They pay maybe 1 percent for a year on an internet bank in lower Slobovia. Whoopee….
Anyway, I would just put an age cap on some of these onerous tax proposals that would correspond to the income level.
mickey1339
said, 6 months ago
@walruscarver2000
“ROGERS IS LYING! No X-rays have ever revealed a brain in Boners head.”
How interesting, that’s a condition that Pelosi, Reid and McConnell suffer from as well!
dapperdan61
said, 6 months ago
The party of no has to go. I’ve never seen such outcry over protecting those most able to pay a higher percentage in taxes. When war against Iraq was declared with no means to pay for it who did the GOP expect to pick up the tab ? Then you add in the Bush tax cuts the deficit explodes & now the Democrats get blamed for not getting it under control. The can can’t be kicked any further & sacrifice by all will be required to get our fiscal house back in order.
ansonia
said, 6 months ago
Obama WANTS the fiscal cliff to happen. Taxes go up on everyone at first of the year and he gets to say that he tried to negotiate, but “those damnable Republicans” are to blame.
Then, after everyone sufficiently feels the pain of higher unemployment, business closures, etc, he swoops in to the rescue and says: “We need to save the middle class and give them a [lesser] tax cut.”
Republicans can’t object and he gets to get rid of that “Bush Tax Cut” recognition and take credit for the New and Improved “Obama Tax Cuts.”
ansonia
said, 6 months ago
@mickey1339
treatment of capital gains and dividends
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I think that tax is the most damaging of all. I don’t think people who voted for Obama realized what effect it will have. Taxes on savings will be harmful.