Cartoons: Republicans, the Koch brothers, and hope

It's pretty clear that the Republicans have no real concept of what's on the minds of the majority of Americans.

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Dan Wasserman, US News

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What's on the minds of the Koch brothers is pretty clear:  control.

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Mike Luckovich, The Week

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Jeff Danziger, Huffington Post

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Matt Wuerker, about.com

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Meanwhile hope for a balanced and responsive political system dies.

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Paul Combs, US News

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And on the horizon there's this:  "The CIA likes to write its own rules, but spying on Congress crosses a new line."

-- 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