Our Congress
From the 1925 collection, Cartoons from Life, by Ellison Hoover, we have a view of “Our Next Congress”. Which, actually, looks more like our current and several past Congresses to me. Click on the above cartoon, to view it in greater detail. Congress has perennially been the target of cartoonists, depicting them as inept, combative, [...]
Who Should vs. Who Does Pay the Taxes: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 69
This week, as everyone should have expected from the start, the Congressional “Super Legion”… uh, “Injustice League”… er… “Committee“(??), came to zero agreement. Click on any of the pictures above and below, to view enlarged versions. Above, The End of a Bad Show, depicting the workings of the “Grand National Congressional Theatre”. Puck magazine’s mascot [...]
A Congressional Prayer
Today, the 112th Congress begins its session. I thought it appropriate we look back towards the Congress most resembling the temperament of our current incoming members — the 36th Congress, which ushered in the American Civil War. (Double-appropriate, as 2011 is also the start of five years’ worth of 150th anniversaries of Civil War dates of interest. I anticipate we will be posting [...]
Buying Congress
Thanks to “Citizens United”, a secretly funded group whose petition before our conservative activist Supreme Court, resulted a century’s worth of election reforms being thrown away, corporations have free reign to anonymously use all the money they wish to, to influence elections. Corporations do not spend money unless they believe it will profit them. They are [...]
