Note that the Author of this Blog Drives a $15k Honda Fit

Henry Payne, 11/3/13:

As we all know, the extensive US government regulation on cars -- driven by consumer-safety concerns, just like health care, and now extending to myriad details of seat belts, crumple zones, air bags, and child seats, among much else -- has made cars completely unaffordable to most Americans.

There's just no such thing as an inexpensive car that complies with safety regulations! You always have to choose between safety and price, silly!

Amazing How He Won't Negotiate With Terrorists

Henry Payne, 10/5/13:

Seriously! Obama's been rolling over for the GOP for five years now -- abandoning his own health-care plan for the one championed by Nixon, the Heritage Foundation, and Romney; keeping Gitmo open; shrinking the stimulus and channeling it through Republican business-owners; giving up on prosecuting any of the people who trashed the economy in 2008; slashing the federal budget by about a third with the sequester; and so on -- so it's really surprising to find there's a limit to how far the Tea Party can shove him to the right.

Note the Subtle Dig at Tiny, Underpowered Euro-cars

Henry Payne, 9/27/13:

Europe is utterly innocent of unions and worker requirements, which are purely an American phenomenon. Italy in particular does not have the highest number of trade unionists of any EU country.

Payne IS Old Economy Steven!

Henry Payne, 7/16/13:

And it's been going on a long time, since the first federal loans to college students were in 1958, and the direct ancestor of the current program began in 1965.

Gosh, I wonder how Payne paid for college? He was born in 1962, so that was well within the Pell Grant era.

The Running Man

Henry Payne, 4/17/13:

Marathoners are a cowardly, superstitious lot, who run away from danger the minute it happens.

(Or, if not, what is this cartoon saying?)

Subtle Racial Stereotype Theatre Presents

Henry Payne, 3/22/13:

The actual leader of the larger, stronger and more important country in "US-Israel relations," after more than four years on the job, is a "student driver" because he doesn't do exactly what his junior partner wants him to do at all times. Remember, the apocalypse won't happen as evangelical Christians want it to unless Israel gets to set it up correctly.

Also note that there is no issue that Payne can't draw a car to illustrate.

The Great Red-Carpet-ivator

Henry Payne, 2/25/13:

Daniel Day-Lewis never drops character.

Either that, or Lincoln has had some bad experiences with theaters in the past....

Har. Har. Har.

Henry Payne, 2/3/13:

It's really hard to be laziest political cartoonist on a Sunday, when most of your compatriots don't even bother to file a cartoon.

But Payne manages to come up with something even lazier than not cartooning at all -- a stunning achievement.

A Cold Day in Detroit

Henry Payne, 1/23/13:

Hey, we haven't had one of these in a while, so everyone say it together:

"Global warming means it's never cold anywhere!"

Funny, these cartoons come later and later every year -- can't think why that would happen.

I Have a Bland Cartoon

Henry Payne, 1/21/13:

Payne is in favor of black American leaders, as long as they have been dead at least forty years.

Either that, or his paper insisted that he do something topical today, and this is as generic as he could get.

No Racial Overtones HERE, Oh No!

Henry Payne, 12/22/12:

It would be much better if the President had sole control of the federal budget and was able to set revenues and expenditures himself, so he could do all of the all hard work, instead of giving it to the tired, overworked (female?!) Congress.

Payne, be careful what you wish for....

A Man of Constant Sorrow

Henry Payne, 11/4/12:

Global warming -- which doesn't exsist, by the way, and if it did exist, hasn't been caused by human action -- could have been easily stopped by Obama over the past four years, but he was too busy golfing, or reading a Teleprompter, or just being an Kenyan Marxist sleeper agent.

So any bad stuff is totally the black guy's fault.

Handicapped Driving

Henry Payne, 10/25/12:

Obama only pretended to bail out the car companies, just like Romney only pretended to call for them to go bankrupt.

You see, white business leaders, by definition, always do what's best for American capitalism, so -- since the car companies survived and are in better shape now, Romney and his ilk must have saved them.

Ergo, Obama is lying. It's really quite simple.

The Very Model of a Modern Admiral Romney

Henry Payne, 10/24/12:

Mitt Romney, who ran a private equity fund for fifteen years and then rescued a Winter Olympics, is clearly vastly more qualified on foreign affairs than the sitting President of the US.

Why? Can't you see how white his skin is?!

Buffalo Bill Calling Lazy Rider

Henry Payne, 9/19/12:

This, presumably, has something to do with a recent statement by Teamsters Prez. James Hoffa (the second of his name) that Romney "wants to annihilate organized labor."

But that's part of Romney's platform -- crushing unions, see them driven before him, and hearing the lamentations of their women -- so I hardly see that as a slam on him. Or how it's equivalent to calling Romney Kim Jong-Il (or whoever Paul Pot is -- maybe Payne means Pol Pot?)

History Is Bunk -- and So Are Government Roads

Henry Payne, 7/19/12:

Ford not only created the car all by himself -- oh yes he did, don't go googling for counterexamples because only liberals use those newfangled computer thingies! -- he also created a car that didn't need no gummint roads, neither!

And he also famously paid his workers as little as he could get away with, because he didn't want any of them buying his cars.

Dial for Fischer!

Henry Payne, 6/26/12:

That is so true! And who hasn't said "dial for Fischer" to their cars! It happens to me every day!

But, seriously, what the hell?

Arrive Alive

Henry Payne, 5/17/12:

Facebook's impending IPO is utterly ruined by GM's declaration that they won't advertise on Facebook any more.

Because, of course, every other advertiser in the world will immediately follow GM, won't they? Just watch and see!

Student Outreach

Henry Payne, 5/3/12:

Not allowing interest rates on student loans to double is exactly like giving college students free cars, in the sense that it's completely different.

Careful, Icarus!

Henry Payne, 4/27/12:

Yes, keeping student loan interest rates the same -- under a regulatory framework so that student-loan debt can't be forgiven, at all, even in a bankruptcy -- is exactly like giving college students money for free.

(Nice evocation of Geoff Peterson's signature one-arm gesture, though.)