Wednesday Reads: Shutdown Cartoons and Stuff
Posted: October 2, 2013 Filed under: Affordable Care Act (ACA), Barack Obama, Government Shutdown, morning reads, Political and Editorial Cartoons, Republican politics, the GOP, U.S. Economy, U.S. Politics | Tags: John Boehner, Ted Cruz 58 Comments
Good Morning
While looking for a cartoon to start this morning’s post with a bang…I could not pick just one. I guess with the shutdown, the artists have been busy at work…
This link will take you to the transcript of Obama’s speech yesterday in the Rose Garden:
Remarks by the President on the Affordable Care Act and the Government Shutdown | The White House
And this next link will take you to an op-ed written by Boehner:
John Boehner: Obama owns this shutdown now
Anyway, here are several comic funnies about something that is in no way funny.
10/02 Luckovich cartoon: Cutting up | Mike Luckovich
Clay Bennett: Shutdown – Clay Bennett – Truthdig
GOP New Fall Fashions – Truthdig
The GOP goes dark by Political Cartoonist John Cole
Shutdown by Political Cartoonist Joe Heller
AAEC – Political Cartoon by Tom Stiglich, MEDIA NEWS GROUP – 10/01/2013
Closed by Political Cartoonist Randall Enos
CONGRESS AND THE SHUTDOWN by Political Cartoonist Randy Bish
Affordable Care – Political Cartoon by Rob Rogers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – 10/01/2013
AAEC – Political Cartoon by Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune – 10/01/2013
AAEC – Political Cartoon by David Horsey, Los Angeles Times – 10/01/2013
Kids in the Cockpit by Political Cartoonist Cal Grondahl
The rest of this morning’s links will be dumped below…
Harry Reid and John Boehner Really Loathe Each Other | Mother Jones
No Resolution in Sight to Government Shutdown- VOA News
Veterans Plot To Expand Revolt Against Government Shutdown- Buzzfeed
Please use this as an open thread, it has been a very long day for me…I am beat!
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Sky Dancing 
Morning, sorry for the lack of links today. I have two kids home this week and I am stretched thin…
More vets are heading to DC Vets On Way To Visit Memorial Despite Government Shutdown « CBS Chicago
Wouldn’t it be something if they are the ones who get the actual “revolution” started. (by that I mean the public outcry and protest in the streets)
A few links to laugh at:
‘UnskewedPolls’ Founder: Barack Obama Is ‘Actually’ Gay
Rick Perry Dismisses His Wife’s Abortion Comments, Tries To Explain What She Really Believes | ThinkProgress
Grayson blames shutdown on GOP literally drinking on the job – Salon.com
Lol I’m so glad you posted the Perry link…I’ve been laughing for a couple days now. All politics is local…and cartoonish 😉
Rick Perry just said it was a felony to implement the Affordable Healthcare Act…………….
Rick Perry is a felon himself, he holds emergency sessions to force transvaginal ultrasounds on women.
Right on Mona………I won’t be forgetting that.
The cartoons are great, JJ. I almost did the same thing yesterday. Politics has become a joke, so cartoons are the appropriate way to cover it.
How is Bebe recovering btw? Xo
Still in a lot of pain, and we are down to one lortab pill left in the bottle. She is now on Homebound, it is some kind of school tutor program since she is missing so days. We have been busy getting paperwork signed and filed to get her set up on that program. I really don’t know what’s be happening out there in the world outside banjoville.
Only tell me, what is a butthurt and a emoprog?
Butthurt, as I understand it, is a homophobic/rape slur.
Emoprog as I understand it is Jane Hamsher and Firedoglake (and a certain kind of lesser class of woman like me. )
Emoprogs are ‘butth—‘ that Obamacare is Romney/Dole-care mandated insurance with no public mechanism and that the midterm ‘shellacking’ that the Democratic supermajorities and Democratic president walked right into trying to be Republican-Lite catalyzed the tea party enzyme which spread in every which direction from Grover Norquist’s bathtub as a result. Obama pretending like he’d be the difference between 1993 (94, 95, peace prosperity…2001) and 2009 (10, 11, 12, 13, …Hillary v. Ted Screwz/Scrooge 2016)
I know, I need a much better hobby than remembering the deets of electoral politics 😉
Mona I am on very little sleep, but are you saying that emoprogs feel they have been screwed because obamacare is nothing but the GOP plan, and a piece of shit to begin with? Damn, I am sorry that I am so thick this morning…even now as I type this, my eyes are barely staying open. I may have to come back when things are more alert.
Personally, I am so pissed off and sick of all the damn shit politicians. Fucking basturds. The people who are being hurt by all this are the ones who don’t count in this country. Women and Children and the Poor and Sick. If Obama has an “out” that he can use and take control and fix this shit once and for good…including raising the debt ceiling which is coming up in a couple weeks, then he needs to do it. As far as Obamacare is concerned, I think it is shit. Those whose states have expanded medicaid are lucky. People like me that are stuck in asshole controlled states are fucked…and when there is no Wendy Davis to count on as someone who will fight for you in your state house…you have no hope of ever getting anything good from your state government. And when the federal government fails you, well then of course you really are screwed.
I am going back to bed before Bebe gets up again…maybe things will make more sense later on tonight.
JJ: Exactly. That’s exactly it. Thank you.
And, Oh gosh, we need to find your GA Wendy!
Sorry I said it such an incoherent rambling way…it’s not you or your lack of sleep or my meds;) it’s me being able to blog more effectively from an iPhone app ….and being more long winded than ever.
If poor Bebe is still in pain, she needs a refill of her pain meds. Don’t hesitate to ask for a refill. Post-surgery pain is a valid reason to use narcotic pain meds. People heal better when they’re not in pain. Hope she heals up quickly; that’s got to be so hard on her — and you.
…sending gentle hugs….
Love the cartoons, JJ.
The basket on my walker is now packed with a bottle of Ensure and a bottle of water ( ordinary tap water ) so I am ready to peacefully protest in the streets. The revolution will not be shown on Pinterest.
All this talk of walkers and revolts makes me think of when the kids were little and they watched spongebob…y’all have to see this it is hilarious. SpongeBob SquarePants: “Mermaidman & Barnacleboy” Episode Clip | SpongeBob Videos
Ernest Borgnine & Tim Conway star in this classic episode about SpongeBob’s heroes.
Specifically this scene:
Barnacle Boy: Now what, Mermaid Man? We need help!
Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy: Sea creatures, unite! [sea creatures are retired so they come slowly]
Barnacle Boy: Hmm, the creatures of the deep seem to have lost some of their luster.
It is only an 11 min video, and it is funny as hell.
I love Spongebob and that scene 🙂
Great cartoons JJ. Loved the elephant with tusk horns.
Question: I pay my mother’s nursing home bill every month from her Social Security. She has no other income. Will Social Security still be paid during the shutdown? Will it happen on the usual date? I am very concerned about this.
Yes, Social Security checks will go out. The only SS jobs that will be suspended are things like approving disability. Medicare payments will also be made. Here’s a link.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/30/absolutely-everything-you-need-to-know-about-how-the-government-shutdown-will-work/
Social Security will be paid during the shutdown, as will Medicare, so you should be fine.
If we breach the debt ceiling however, all bets are off and everyone is probably screwed.
Thank you, BB and Ralph. I admit I get confused and overwhelmed these days. The brain is going. LOL.
I am shocked at the impact the shutdown may have on veterans ( from BB’s link ). If it goes on for more than a couple of weeks, they may not get their disability and pension benefits. That is outrageous. Every American should find that unacceptable. Shame on the GOP.
Funding for the Women, Infants, and Children ( WIC ) program has also stopped ( from BB’s link ). That affects 9 million poor women and their children. Appalling.
I hope the charity food banks are full and these poor women can get transportation to them. That is a major problem for poor people that is rarely discussed – how to get from one place to another with no car. It is especially difficult for people with young children.
The republicans are out telling people to go to the churches for food……………you know there is one on every corner in America.
That’s so so predictable and typical. I was just ranting (here? somewhere else? offline?) the other day about how small government types argue we should leave basic human needs being met up to the charitable prerogatives of the naturally giving/wealthy Americans, and it’s like but no? If that were the case then these naturally giving/wealthy Americans would think a family going homeless on the streets of Chicago is just as tragic and unacceptable as a family going homeless on the streets Madison is.
And every poor pregnant woman has a Cadillac.
We’ve seen this movie before haven’t we, Fannie?
“And every poor pregnant woman has a Cadillac.”
Don’t forget that she’s also using her food stamps to eat Filet Mignon at Longhorn Steak House
“The republicans are out telling people to go to the churches for food”
Hell, many of the churches in the South are more concerned with creating a Country Club environment for their attendees than they are feeding the poor. I know they must be tormented with the choices they have to make, feed the poor or build a swimming pool? What would Yahweh do?
Speaking of movies, I know Ralph and I talked about this bombing last year, but didn’t know about a movie, Let it Burn.
http://nyti.ms/15Jt9A6
Let the Fire Burn
I want to see that movie. Frank Rizzo should burn for that bombing.
The hapless TeaParty, in trying to stop the ACA, has stopped nearly everything except the services it loathes the most. ObamaCare, SS, Medicare/Medicaid, unemployment insurance and food stamps.
Many of these people are the progeny of folks who screamed during the 60’s that Medicare wouldn’t work, wouldn’t survive and called the mandated payroll deductions to Medicare “socialism”. Maybe it’s a genetic mutation.
It’s movement conservatism. It’s really that simple. What’s weird is that O doesn’t know how to fight it.
“It’s movement conservatism”
I think it’s bile movement conservatism. 🙂
So far I think Obama is fighting it in the only way he can, and that is, just say no!!!
Isn’t bile redundant?!
Or bowel movement c? Yeah, they need some preventive health colon screening, STAT.
O doesn’t know how to fight for others, only for himself.
Noam Scheiber: Conservatives Have Already Lost Control of the Shutdown Narrative
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114954/government-shutdown-2013-conservatives-lose-control-narrative
So is he not a douchenozzle hired by New Republic?
He may be otherwise delusional though. One story doesn’t totally undouche a writer.
He’s a senior editor of TNR 😉
Your cats also qualify for that position.
My androgynous tortoise too!!!
http://think-progress.org/media/2013/10/01/2706981/gop-congresswoman-and-fox-cheer-government-shutdown/
Marsha Blackburn thinks this is all fun and games “keeping the government closed will probably help the public realize that they didn’t need it in the first place.”……………….
This morning’s Idaho Stateman’s Newspaper is all “Pink News” to bring awareness to Breast Cancer…………….Earlier in the week I talked about my friends who lost their battle to breast cancer. We know how important it is to have health care coverage. Somehow republicans like Marsha, and Ted Cruz thought it was fun to add a ransom note to the shut down, and block screening for breast cancer and other services that women need. There is a group of 200 patients who are being denied treatment for cancer, and 30 of that group are children. Thanks to all the fun and games they are out of luck and out of funds, soon of be out of life. Then there is Ann Romney offering up coffee cake today…………sorry Ann but who wants to eat cake with you or the so called Christian that is praying to God for the military to take over Obama and our country. No thank you, we voted not to have your husband as president. We voted for the Affordable Care Act………..it is the fucking law, and just as soon as the republicans vote with NO STRINGS ATTACHED, the government will be open in a split second.
Thanks JJ for all those cartoons, I’ll share them, I am outraged every second now……..they are saying they are unwilling to re-burse furlough federal workers because they didn’t work for their money…………
Beata, I’m ready too. If you need any further help, or information about your mom, etc. let me know, I’ll get on the horn.
R.I.P. Tom Clancy
“Marsha Blackburn thinks this is all fun and games “keeping the government closed will probably help the public realize that they didn’t need it in the first place.”
Marsha represents an area of TN and lives in a county in TN that is one of the wealthiest counties in the country. She’s not capable of understanding the lives of ordinary people. Of course there are middle and low income people in her district, but that’s not the crowd she runs or socializes with. Like most in her party she exists in a reality that isn’t touched by everyday problems like deciding whether to buy food or medicine, whether to pay the rent or go to the doctor. She’s an Elitist who see’s programs like WIC, Food stamps, Unemployment insurance or any of the safety net programs as being a drain on “the Makers”. People like you and I are “takers” to her mind. Especially me, I’m on Medicare & SS which makes me a double dipping taker.
Marsha Blackburn makes my skin crawl. She is one of the worst of the worst. Smug must be her middle name. She always looks like she smelled something bad and she’s sure it came from your direction. It couldn’t possibly be her own stink.
Yep, she’s irritates both my gag and my cringe reflex.
She became a Conservative hero in TN when she fought against a State income tax in favor of keeping the regressive State sales tax, a tax that hammers the poor and the middle class in their purchases of food and clothing. The State sales tax is 7% tacked on top of the county sales tax, which for most counties is about 2.75%. So, most people in TN are paying nearly 10% sales tax on every retail purchase.
I followed Marsha’s campaign against the poor and for the rich during that time and realized that Marsha simply does not give a damn. I also realized that most of the yokels have no idea how damaging and unfair a sales tax is to the majority of the state’s citizens. But not to fear, Jeebus is really big here, so everything gonna be alright, dontcha know.
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/10/01/2706981/gop-congresswoman-and-fox-news-cheer-government-shutdown/
Welfare Fraud
We may hear a lot about this on Fox.
Dan Froomkin at Al Jazeera: Shutdown coverage fails Americans
Excellent article!
You find great links, Ralph. I hope your recovery is progressing well.
Beata, It seems to be going really well but I’ve got to wear the torture collar for another week. Kind of driving me a bit nuts. 🙂
I am very sorry about the torture collar. ((( Gentle Hugs )))
You seem extremely sane to me. Amazing how you have been able to come back to Sky Dancers and contribute so much so quickly. Thank you for that.
It’s the drugs Beata…innit that true Ralph?
Yep! Vicodin and muscle relaxers are a nice combo,
Ralph I can’t even imagine how bad that collar is. I’ve seen folks in it and I can tell by looking at them they are miserable. In my late 30’s I spent 6 weeks in a thoracic brace because I fractured 8 & 9 T and ruptured my thoracic diaphragm. That brace was restrictive, but not like the collar.
Gotta try and keep your mind off it. For sure. 😉
I love PPP…
Americans to anti-Obamacare Congressmen: Give Up Your Health Care
LATimes: The truth is, Americans love Obamacare