Cartoons: have the bullies won?

Now the question is--how much sheer bedlam did Boehner keep down?

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David Horsey, The Week

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Will the GOP ever get itself under control?

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Drew Sheneman, The Week

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I love a good pun, even a near miss.

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John Deering, The Week

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Planned Parenthood got yelled at. This from Slate Magazine:

Watching Republicans repeatedly interrupt and yell at Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards on Tuesday, one might get the impression that there's some kind of national uprising against the existence of affordable women's health care. Republicans repeatedly excoriated the organization for focusing on contraception and Pap smears instead of on mammograms, which are typically done at radiology centers. ... Viewers got a laundry list of things that Republicans felt should be funded instead of low-cost birth control and STI treatment at Planned Parenthood. Rep. Glenn Grothman even argued (bewilderingly) that since there's medical care he can get "as a guy," then Planned Parenthood—and by implication, its gynecological services (?!?)—is unnecessary. The message was clear: Taxpayer-funded gynecological care is an illegitimate use of government funding.

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Mike Lukovich, The Week

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OK, OK, there is/was water on Mars.

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RJ Matson, The Week

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-- Marge

Politics: Boehner and the Pope

John Boehner, Pope Francis(Credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Craig Ruttle), Salon

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Wow! John Boehner resigned.

He simply decided to resign on Friday, says NPR (National Public Radio). News analysts at Business Insider say this action will likely avert a government shutdown. The military has been preparing for such a shutdown.

Robert Costa at the Washington Post tells how Boehner was affected by the Pope's presence in Congress in What John Boehner told me the night before he said he was quitting.

The New York Times has an analysis of Pope Francis' address to Congress. And Time has published a transcript of the Pope's speech.

For some perspective on why men of power change course, take a look at Meet Hillary Clinton’s Bulldog,

-- Marge

Cartoons: fools and posers

News from the war front at the US-Mexico border verges on delirious.

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Pat Bagley, the Week

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Drew Sheneman, the Week

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David Fitzsimmons, the Week

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Meanwhile, at the war front in DC, it verges on insane.

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Steve Sack, Cagle

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Seems to me these guys in Washington were elected to represent their constituents. They're supposed to be adults.

-- Marge

Cartoons: Boehner and fellow Republicans

A recent poll, sponsored by NBC and the Wall Street Journal, places House Speaker "John Boehner's Favorability Rating Just Above George Zimmerman's, Edward Snowden's" according to a report by Ariel Edwards-Levy in the Huffington Post.  According to NBC New's First Read the poll shows "Faith in DC hits a low; 83 percent disapprove of Congress."

According to Michael Grunwald, writing for Time Magazine, Republicans have become the "The Party of No."

Since it's hard to take such childishness seriously (even though what's done in the Capitol can be serious business), let's have a laugh on it.  What else is there to do?

From the Times-Tribune by John Cole, "Adult Supervision:"
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From Stuart Carlson's website, "On Immigration:"
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From The Week/cartoons by Mike Keefe, "John Boehner's Sob Story:"
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Also from The Week by Mike Luckovich, "A Grand Old Accusation:"
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Found in the Boston Globe archives by Mike Luckovich, "Herding Cats:"
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One last note: on July 17 the Washington Post reported "House to vote, yet again, on repealing Obamacare."  This will be the 38th vote.

-- Marge