If You Find Yourself in a Hole

Tom Toles, 7/18/11:

Every other cartoonist has done a version of the "digging out from under the debt ceiling" cartoon by now, so it's finally Toles's turn.

But, since he's not in favor of the blindingly obvious metaphor everyone else uses -- if you're shoveling out something under the debt ceiling, it must be the stuff pushing you up to that ceiling, i.e., spending -- he instead comes back from vacation with that eternal friend of the lazy cartoonist, a panel complaining that politicians are practicing politics.