The cartoon wars heat up. Last week, Houston Chronicle's editorial point-man, cartoonist Nick Anderson, showed his chops for scathing political satire. Anderson fired off a savage barrage of his Pulitzer-winning style by portraying Tea Partiers as a mentally-impaired dunce.
Wow! A knockout punch if there ever was one! Simple and to the point: Tea Partiers are retarded because they disagree with President Zero’s arithmetic. Now that's the kind of enlightened wit that guarantees indolence an open line of credit.
Meanwhile, smart-thinking Americans aligned with Tea Party sentiment and embarked on a major house-cleaning. Too bad the job wasn’t as thorough as it could’ve been – Barney Frank, Harry Reid and a pile of toxic waste still cling to the smelly walls of the nation’s central plumbing.
My favorite cartoonist, H. “Hap” Kliban, the satirist-di-tutti-satirist, once drew a cartoon with this caption: “The sewers of Washington D.C. are full of politicians, flushed down toilets when they were small.”
Kliban’s cartoon is important because it establishes a link between loos and lawmakers. It’s also an indictment of who’s responsible for the crap that goes into public office. We have met the enemy and it is us – mainly those who're swayed by the dizzy drivel of uninspired editorial doodlers.
The forecast for the next two years looks dreary if this drizzle keeps up. Blech! Wish I was as optimistic as my old friend Jay-Rome in Cincinnati. He's looking forward to a nice cleansing colonic in 2012.
Until then, I'm gonna sit back and enjoy the muse of another great satirist, "Screamin' Jay Hawkins," as he delivers his trademark blues diatribe, “Constipation Blues,” a perfect complement for wading through the dreck.
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