$50 Billion Job Express

$50 billion for Roads, Rails, and Runways: I can't say that I think any potential or subsequent economic booming will be enough for Democrats to recover any lost ground before the November elections. The GOP's success in the polls, if I can call it that, really can't be attributed to their platform of fiscal responsibility. The Tea Party and the small government crowd support the laissez faire sort of doctrine that not only put the economy in its current state, but would have done nothing to repair it(if left to their devices, republicans may have worsened the whole ordeal). They became the party of "NO," and since a sluggish struggling economy hasn't miraculously bounced back, the democrat majority is going to feel the pinch. In the event that the GOP does win big in November, their partisan political games will be rendered useless, and (fingers crossed) they'll be forced to cooperate with the Obama administration.

Extreme Makeover

The oval office just got a bit of a face lift, which I would classify as piddly, who-gives-a-damn, news, but it took place presumably for Obama's oval office speech addressing the pull out of Iraq. Thusly I thought I could make some sort of connection for a cartoon.

Back To School

Since congress has appropriated $10 billion to save jobs for teachers, cops, and the like, the respective employers either received the funds too late, or are saving the money for next year in the event the economy and suffering state budgets do not recover. That would seem to make sense, but one, I doubt school boards would start a new hiring spree next fall regardless of the budget, and two the funds were given specifically to save jobs now.

Phat America

One more drawing for today!

Almost 20% of Americans think Obama is Muslim. It says one thing about our overall intelligence, but says something else entirely about the effectiveness of spreading falsehoods and fear-mongering.

Glenn Beck: A Real Man of God and A True Patriot!

It comes as absolutely no surprise that Glenn Beck is very adamant about there never being a Mosque built near the ground zero location in New York. But apart from many aspects of Beck that I'll never fully understand(nor do I want to) I do have to marvel at his latest rally of note given in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of MLK's "I Have A Dream" speech. He had said that it was merely a coincidence and that those who criticized were just trying to smear his good name. I'll leave you to judge, but I know how I feel about him.


Colored cartoon


And the inks

Bucket Mouth Biden

I caught a rather funny picture of Biden in todays NY Times and had to sketch it up.

200th Blog Post!

Alas, I have reached my anticlimactic 200th blog post. It might be fitting to show a bit of a recent accumulation of freelance work. I just finished up doing 10 illustrations for a special issue of "The Capitol." They were pretty fun to do. I used graphite and photoshop, and I was pretty happy with how they turned out.