With his singular style, Tom Toles tackles the complex issues of the day. This Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist skillfully targets political, economic and social concerns — in particular complicated environmental issues — with a clear-eyed precision that hits the mark every time.
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Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
While they play their political games reality is going to crush us all.
capndunzzl said, 4 months ago
…the opposite of Moses.
Dycel
said, 4 months ago
So Obamas line in the sand is based on the reality wave and the GOP is either on a fishing expedition or they’re the days catch?
Radish
said, 4 months ago
Theres never a good tidal wave when you need one.
NebulousRikulau
said, 4 months ago
They don’t show that Obama’s line is the one that the GOP drew 4 years ago, and then retreated from.
Michael wme said, 4 months ago
@Dycel
Where do you get this? The cartoon shows both Obama and the Republicans drawing lines in the sand and staring at each other while the tsunami named ‘Reality’ is rolling in on them from the side, a side neither is looking at.
Michyle Glen said, 4 months ago
You should have added some debris (preferably Telephone Poles) to that wave Tom.
Hurricane Sandy, The Economy, Gun Comtrol ect
ossiningaling said, 4 months ago
Here’s what’s really funny. Based on the metaphor in the sand, Obama is communicating with the GOP, while the GOP is only talking to themselves.
lonecat said, 4 months ago
Very good cartoon.
Omnius said, 4 months ago
The wave of reality is going to crush the elephant party of whiners. About time Americans wake up to the danger the tea baggers pose to our Secular Democracy, they’re even worse of a threat than the Taliban ever was.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 4 months ago
@HOWGOZIT
No ZIT, ossiningaling pretty much has it nailed.
dianalyn said, 4 months ago
@HOWGOZIT
takes a second but he does have it right
Dycel
said, 4 months ago
@Michael wme
Did you miss the baited hook?
But you may be right about the looming part although Obama is in a stare down with the elephant.
Ionizer said, 4 months ago
@ossiningaling
“Here’s what’s really funny. Based on the metaphor in the sand, Obama is communicating with the GOP, while the GOP is only talking to themselves.”
Nah, both notations are written that way because Democrats never read what they’ve written, so they can say later that they never said it, or were taken out of context, or whatever.
As for Obama’s reading the GOP notation, he never reads anything that might disagree with him. And if others are talking, he just plugs his ears and hums real loud.
Ionizer said, 4 months ago
@Omnius
" About time Americans wake up to the danger the tea baggers pose to our Secular Democracy, they’re even worse of a threat than the Taliban ever was"
a) We’re not a democracy. If we were, no one would complain about the Electoral College every 4 years. Look up the word republic.
b) Obama and his ilk are 100 times the threat of anyone else. When everyone’s dependent on the government for income, health care, housing, and everything else, the government can do what it wants. That’s Obama’s goal.