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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mickey1339
said, 4 months ago
Let sequestration happen. We have to take the fall and work through the process at some point and time, IMO the sooner the better.
treesareus said, 4 months ago
What person in their right mind would think that “borrowing” (think printing) 46% of the money government spends is OK? That is over $50,000 a second borrowed!
Gresch said, 4 months ago
The House GOP are the only ones who can Stop the Big Spender now …
Nos Nevets said, 4 months ago
sequestration: baby step.
See Ken Catalino’s: www.gocomics.com/kencatalino/2013/02/10
tom said, 4 months ago
“Sequestration” is needed, because, without being forced, Obama will cut NOTHING except defense.
Clark Kent said, 4 months ago
Press the button, dumbo, and we’ll get to work when you’re gone.
motivemagus said, 4 months ago
Sequestration is a cowardly approach to cutting the budget to try and make it look like Congress has to act rather than them taking responsibility and DOING something. It is idiotic. Most of them could quite easily put an agreement together (except the Tea Party fanatics who think like Rand that entrepreneurs can overcome physics), but are afraid to be held accountable for actually taking action that might contradict their “official” stands in the course of a compromise.
Politics IS compromise. Not a showdown.
Rx71Wm29 said, 4 months ago
Problem is, the voting public – which no doubt includes you – interprets “compromise” as “betrayal”.
Harleyquinn
said, 4 months ago
Why is this not a Donkey? Obama is the one that again has no budget! Obama is NO leader! He has NOTHING to bring to the table. The only time he got anything done was when he controlled both houses. And what did that get us? the biggest tax/penalty or penalty/tax Obamacare that was to cost under 3 trillion but is now going to cost 3 trillion.
Obama is a failure. If this does go through it will be on OBAMA not a guy with a R behind his name!
dapperdan61
said, 4 months ago
The sooner the Republicans blow themselves up the sooner we can piece together a meaningful recovery.
Rickapolis said, 4 months ago
YES, let the republicans ‘show us’ by holding their breath until they turn blue, or put themselves out of our misery. Isn’t there some space ship that would transport all these bozo’s up into outer space? What a wonderful world it would be without them.
Kylie2112 said, 4 months ago
@Harleyquinn
Where in the Constitution does it say the President is responsible for writing a budget?
mickey1339
said, 4 months ago
@motivemagus
“Politics is compromise, not a showdown”
That’s very true, but I think you will find that the partisan divide and people digging in their heels extends to democrats as well as republicans. Obama hasn’t led in this regard, he’s just extended numerous programs, taxes and spending initiated by Bush. Bush almost doubled defense and homeland defense spending during his term and Obama hasn’t done any significant reductions there and he still maintains the Bush tax cuts. I’d love to see true compromise, I’m a big fan of the Simpson – Bowles commission, but politicians of both parties found it politically unsupportable, instead of looking at the benefits to the country.
Bruce4671 said, 4 months ago
I love it. The sequestration was a political ploy used by OBAMA to force congress to reach agreement. Now, I’m no economist but how does cutting 85 billion a year from the defense budget and 85 billion a year from discretionary spending hurt OR help anything? The defense department spends more than that on port-o-lets and there is over 700 billion a year waste and fraud in medicare alone (according to Obama). The last emergency relief bill was 62 billion alone. Aren’t we “bringing home” the troops? Hey instead of buying 7000 assault weapons for “personal protection” in DHS they could just reallocated 7000 M16’s from Iraq and Afghanistan and save a few million there.
So NOW Obama is saying that to cut so much from the budget would hurt the middle class. hahahahaha as if his wonderful health care bill isn’t doing that already.
And isn’t HE the one that said he would veto ANY attempt to get out of the sequestration when it was put into law?
When will all you people get your heads out of the sand?
Zuhlamon said, 4 months ago
How ’bout the gov. pay its employees and military in cash – printing the money avoids the political blackmail and stimulates the economy.