Pucker Up, Butter-Cup

Tug-'O'- War (no pun intended)

Thought I'd changed this blog to all paintings and I'd never cartoon again- didn't ya?
I don't know what Ann Colter and Rush Limbaugh's problem is. McCain is more than conservative enough for me. He's genuflected to the Religious right, he's anti-union, he wants to stay in Iraq for a million year and has no problem starting plenty more wars too. Does he not love lobbyists enough? Does he not hate gays and Mexican immigrants enough? What more do they want from him?

Didn't Samsonite used to have a gorilla?

Editorial cartoon for the January 31 Mapleton PRESS

Whew! This took a while. The stupid Clintons constantly attacking Obama was too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel- everybody's doing it. I thought about a roller-coaster for the stock market, but I've seen a lot of people do that one too. So then I got to thinking about a conversation with a very dear "moderate" (recovering-Republican) friend the other day. He hates Bush and likes Obama best, but figures that any of the Republican candidates will do better than Bush did and fears that Hillary is a dangerous power-hungry freak. Granted, he's probably right, but I still have a tuck load of reasons not to vote for any kind of elephant. Thus, this cartoon.

Super Hero, or super villian?

I'm not saying these guys are fascists, but...

I don't know about Nussle anymore, but you can read more about how Steve King feels about immigrants on KingWatch.org

Red Herring

Sort of a pet peeve of mine; emotional wedge issues that distract from genuine policy issues. Grrrr

This was the first cartoon in about a 2 year run for the small stable of newspapers in Western Iowa. First in the Charter Oak-Ute Newspaper and Schleswig Leader, printed by Lyon Publishing. The Lyons sold their three papers to Enterprise Publishing, who's HQ is in Blair NE. Eventually Enterprise folded the NEWSpaper and the Leader into their parent paper, the Mapleton PRESS, but they began running my column & cartoon in the PRESS.

Holy Rollers

Way back in college (a Lutheran college no less), I had a problem with the hypocrisies of the religious right (which is neither).

Who needs revenue anyway?

I don't know the actual date in 1992 when this one ran in my college newspaper, 'the Sower' but I love the elephant I drew. Funny how 16 years later Republicans still claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility and try to make people fear how Democrats will tax and spend when they've been cutting taxes for the filthy rich and screwing the rest of us since 1981!