This pretty much sums up what the world thinks of us right now: © KAL
© Steve Breen Are the bookies taking bets yet on whether the US will default? I’m not sure I see a way to an agreement in time.
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Jon Stewart demonstrates that the debt ceiling debate has gotten so utterly and unbelievably bizarre, that only a comedy show has any chance at all of giving it the coverage it so clearly deserves:
© Clay Bennett The GOP cure seems to be far worse than the problem.
Much of our current stalemate in Congress is due to the anti-tax pledge created by Grover Norquist, who believes that even closing crazy tax loopholes for large corporations is a tax increase. © August Pollak
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Civil war is breaking out between the more moderate, responsible Republicans and the “Tea Party” Republicans over the debt ceiling debate. Today, John McCain stood up on the Senate floor and accused conservatives of “deceiving” (i.e., lying) to their constituents and called their position “bizarro”. Even worse, House Republicans today called for the firing of […]
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I didn’t think the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations could get any more bizarre. The Democrats now are to the right of the Republicans, but they must have missed each other in passing because they still can’t agree. Unbelievable.
© Mike Stanfill Deficits Don’t Matter? Shouldn’t Republicans recuse themselves from the deficit negotiations? After all, they created most of the problem in the first place, and stand to gain from making things worse.
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© Tom Tomorrow According to Tom Tomorrow, a reader of his says that this cartoon was reported as “offensive content” and blocked on Facebook.
[Reposted from Truthout, written by Greg Palast] Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” gave debtors’ prison a bad rap. Too bad. I’d say that locking away GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a penitentiary for deadbeats seems like a darn good idea. Let’s talk about how we ended up in this pickle, bucking up against the “debt […]
Business Insider put together an interesting chart showing GDP minus government spending. In other words, it shows economic growth coming from the private sector (not from stimulus spending): The shaded part is the recession, where by early 2009 (when Obama took office) the economy was shrinking by 7.5%. But less than a year later, the […]
© Drew Sheneman I’m really curious whether the Republicans will give in and raise the debt ceiling, or if they really will force the government to shut down.
© Ed Stein Once again Ed Stein has good commentary to go along with his comic: Well, it’s come to this. The forces of evil, in the name of ideological purity, are threatening to destroy what’s left of the nation’s economy. The good guys are powerless in the face of the unrelenting assault on sanity. […]
© Lee Judge Message received, loud and clear. UPDATE: © Mike Keefe
© Jen Sorensen I’m having trouble finding good comics to post about the Debt Ceiling Mud Wrestling Match for a couple of reasons. First, I’m reluctant to post comics (like this one) that exaggerate, since the reality of the situation is bizarre enough. And second, there really isn’t much that is funny about the situation. […]
