Cartoons: wordplay

Three of today's cartoons feature a play on words; the fourth is an outlier in more ways than one.

Marshall Ramsey: "Stupor Tuesday"

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Marshall Ramsey, TheWeek

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Bob Gorrell: "Trumped"

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Bob Gorrell, The Week

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Tom Toles: "the T party"

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Tom Toles, The Week

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David Fitzsimmons: Hannibal Lecter vs. Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger

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David Fitzsimmons, The Week

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-- Marge

Cartoons: the genie out of the bottle

Gary Varvel, The Week

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The news this week may appear to be about Eric Cantor, House Majority Leader, losing the Virginia primary to a Tea Party candidate, but it's really about what voters will tolerate.  In the Washington Post's Opinion Section E.J. Dionne says:

We’ll never know whether Cantor would have done better if he had held steady on the subject [of immigration reform]. What we do know is that sending out campaign literature bragging about a news story that declared him “the No. 1 guy standing between the American people and immigration reform” did nothing to placate or persuade those who were out to defeat him.

Dionne's article is an excellent look at Republicans, the Tea Party, and the effectiveness of Republican attack ads, presumably backed by Big Money Republicans.

I don't know about you, but to me the Tea Party has become scary. They seemed innocent enough when they started out and their goals looked good, then they shut down the U.S. government and gloated about it.

At least the cartoonists can still evoke a laugh.

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Adam Zyglis, The Week

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Steve Sack, The Week

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Michael Ramirez, US News

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R J Matson, The Week

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Interesting that in this last cartoon Google takes on the role of Supreme Manipulator.

-- Marge

Friday cartoons: Tea Party, Me Party

The government shutdown may be over, but I'm still stinging from it.  Seeing the Tea Party members of the US Congress gloat about having shutdown the government was pretty ugly.  Who knew they would interpret their mission of less government as no government?  Thing is, their extreme tactics are taking down the Republicans (who don't need any help alienating us ordinary folk) as well.

Here are some ideas about the Tea Party in the form of cartoons for you to consider.

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Drew Sheneman, "That Was Awesome," USNews

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Drew Sheneman, Boston Tea Party, USNews

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Mike Luckovich, "Bad Fit," theWeek

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Chan Lowe, "Shutdown," USNews

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Mike Keefe's cartoon below addresses what's been on my mind lately...

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Mike Keefe, "Home Grown Terror," theWeek

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-- Marge

Cartoons: the Republican circus

Steve Sack, "On Lockdown," The Week

That the Republicans in Congress are holding the government hostage over Obamacare really twists my knickers.  Having lost count of the number of times they've voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA, aka Obamacare, I checked today.  At present it's 42 times.  Fortunately Democrats in the Senate have given the government and Obamacare a little more time.
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Steve Benson, "GOP Circus," Cagle.com

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Michael Ramirez, "Leading From Behind," The Week

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Jim Morin, Miami Herald/McClatchy

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Marshall Ramsey, "Shut Down the Government," USNews

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Mike Luckovich "The Grumpy Old Party," The Week

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A huge thanks to these fine cartoonists for their insights.

-- Marge