Two Party Opera by Brian Carroll for February 18, 2019

Oh, Abe, George, if only we COULD forget about the current resident for a day…or even an hour…

Kind of like ignoring the train speeding towards you while you are standing on the track…

Forgive me if I misspeak, but I seem to remember a time when we honored Washington and Lincoln’s birthdays separately . . . perhaps due to their being both individually great men and not merely because they happened to have been President

Make voting day a holiday.

Glad to see the Rushmore Four up there. Now they just need a bigman and they can have a semi-decent basketball team. How about Mr Durant. I hear he’s pretty good.

I have to disagree with Washington in panel #3. As long as Drumpf is our president, we must never stop reflecting on his attack on our nation. He must remain under constant scrutiny so the citizenry can catalog and remember every criminal act he commits. Until he stands trial for treason.

Hey! at least we have the talented Mr. Carroll here to remind us of the Birthdays of Millard Fillmore, James Polk, Grover Cleveland, etc….

Otherwise, these fine public servants might not ever get a nation-wide B-day salute….

I just can’t see a ‘Mount RushLess’ ever being built (although daytime AM radio might get a bit better)

I always think of it as Richard Nixon Day.

BTW Brian, refreshing to see ‘rein’ used correctly.

Celebrating 44 of our presidents today.

I remember back in school when we celebrated both Lincoln’s and Washington’s Birthday before the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1971. I recall still getting Lincoln’s Birthday off even when Washington’s Birthday (Presidents’ Day) was moved to the third Monday of February.

The Uniform Monday Holiday Act didn’t change New Years Day, Independence Day, Labor Day (which was already on Monday) Thanksgiving Day (which is on the fourth Thursday in November) and Christmas Day.

Sadly, Americans think far too much about the office of President. Chances are, if registered Republicans had given more thought to the Congressional candidates for whom they voted in 2012 and 2014, it’s unlikely the rest of the electorate would’ve had a knucklehead foisted on it in 2016.

Ok, I know I’m late here, but I feel like I have been plagiarized.

I’ve said for months that I long for the old days when you only heard the President’s name every couple of weeks, because he just did his job and didn’t generate scandal on a minute by minute basis.

And I have always refused to call Cult45 anything but the Resident.

:-)

We don’t want to rein in Presidential power, we just want to rein in Presidential attention. Oh wait, to the current usurper, they are the same thing.