Cartoons: Cruz news and a robin

So...Cruz is running for president. Why am I not surprised.

It looks like cartoonist John Cole doesn't like him much.

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John Cole, The Week

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Cruz, a Tea Party guy, does have a history with the Republican Party.

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John Cole, The Week

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The media is ecstatic.

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Rick McKee, The Week

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And, finally, a robin for spring, such as it is (NOAA: Departure of average temperature from normal [in degrees F], Feb 2015).

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Gary Markstein, The Week

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-- Marge

Cartoons: the GOP vs. us

For an American political party whose members want to be elected and re-elected, the GOP appears to missing the mark.  According to the polls, Obama isn't doing that well, either.  Here are some cartoons showing where the GOP misses the mark with Americans.  (Since I still like Obama, I'm avoiding shots at him.)

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Chan Lowe, US News

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Dan Wasserman, US News

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Chan Lowe, US News

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Gary Markstein, US News

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Drew Sheneman, US News

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It looks to me like the Grand Old Party is just too grand for regular Americans.

-- Marge

An oily Friday in cartoons

It's been a month now and I still can't believe that Exxon not only fathered yet another oil spill, but they also suppressed reporting on it.  In fact, according to Grist.org, Exxon took or has taken over the town of Mayflower, Arkansas, as reported in the article, "Arkansas town in lockdown after oil spill nightmare."  If you've never heard of the magazine Grist, neither had I -- here's a list of the funders.

Living in Alaska and having seen how the oil companies operate first-hand (did you know that the U.S. still subsidizes them?), the news about Mayflower really chaps my hide. So I'm applying some cartoon vitriol as lubrication.

On second thought, not.  It seems all of the current oil spill cartoons that I saw earlier are gone.  Googling "oil spill editorial cartoons," I see only ones about the BP Gulf of Mexico spill.  Spooky.

Pulling some cartoons from the U.S. News' 2010 archive and making a few changes (my apologies to the artists for altering their works), I offer you the following:

Adapted from a Jack Ohman cartoon,

Adapted from a Gary Markstein cartoon,

One by Michael Ramirez and in its original form,

The next two are from other sites and specifically address the Mayflower spill.  The first is from  Matt Wuerker at Politico:

And this last one is by Jimmy Margulies; it was found at Cagle:

-- Marge

The sequester

The storm over the 2013 budget sequestration, aka The Sequester, has hit.  To commemorate this momentous two seconds of history, here are a few cartoons, mostly from U.S.News, because they're kind enough to arrange the cartoons by category, Political Cartoons on Sequestration and the Fiscal Cliff.

Chan Lowe, South Florida Sun-Sentinel:

Walt Handelsman, Newsday

David Horsey, Los Angeles Times

Jack Ohman, The Sacramento Bee

Dana Summers, Tribune Media Services

Gary Markstein, Creators.com

And that's it for today, Folks.

-- Marge