The Deceased Is Survived by Fifty States and a Grieving Military-Industrial Complex

Jerry Holbert, 12/13/13:

The United States is utterly dead, just like the Holy Roman Empire and Czechoslovakia.

Um, really?

Lend Me a Hand

Jerry Holbert, 3/26/13:

Oh no! A government plan to cut all spending across budgets by exactly the same amount is operating exactly as it was planned, with cuts everywhere instead of a few things eliminated entirely!

It's horrible when something does what it was supposed to!

(Oh, and the aid to the Palestinians is approximately 6/10th of one percent...of the sequester total for this year, and a vastly tinier fraction of the whole federal budget. The US government probably spends more than that on toasters.)

Courts, Shmorts -- Just Shoot Him!

Jerry Holbert, 3/11/13;

Exactly! We already know exactly who all of the good and bad people are in the world -- well, at least the President does, and we all always trust the current President, right? -- so we should just let him use drones to kill every last person he wants to, so the world can finally be safe!

The rule of law is for pussies!

The Worst Thing About the Government Is That It Exists

Jerry Holbert, 2/14/13:

Ah! For the dream of a government that doesn't take in any revenue or spend any money!

What do we call that again"

Oh, yes -- anarchy.

Flat Stanley, USMC

Jerry Holbert, 1/14/13:

Gosh! We might be in danger of only spending 40% of the total world budget for the military, instead of 41%!

Horrors!

Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But Predator Drones REALLY Sting

Jerry Holbert, 9/27/12:

So, in this metaphor, how exactly would we characterize the multiple death-strikes our football captain, Israel, has made on the teacher's nuclear scientists?

Or would that just be too confusing to work out?

"Reagan Proved Deficits Don't Matter" -- VP Cheney

Jerry Holbert, 8/21/12:

Debt is a series of sharp Andean peaks, and the President is a sure-footed llama that carries the American people safely (if smugly) to ever-higher peaks.

Presumably Holbert means this to be a horrifying metaphor, but just look at that cute fuzzy Obama-llama! Isn't he adorable?! And the dude might be unhappy, but he seems to be perfectly safe.

The Quicker Screwer-Upper!

Jerry Holbert, 8/10/12:

Obviously, buying up companies and sucking money out of them (and, maybe, along the way, helping some of them to succeed -- but getting the fees and flipping the ownership is much more important for the paydays) is much better experience for being President and dealing with financial problems than actually being President and presiding over the response to the biggest financial crisis in two generations.

C'mon, you gotta agree: any private sector experience is better, right?

The Freedom to Die for Lack of Health Coverage, Apparently

Jerry Holbert, 6/29/12:

The greatest threats to Freedom and Democracy today are: allowing 26-year-olds to stay on their parents' insurance, forcing insurance companies to spend 85% of their receipts on actually providing health care, and removing lifetime limits of coverage.

Restore Freedom today! Deny healthcare to someone!

Defer to My Executive Power!

Jerry Holbert, 4/9/12:

Obama rides a flying donkey to battle the evil all-devouring maw of the Supreme Court -- yup, that he does.

And Holbert seems to be favoring the evil all-devouring maw.

Baby, That Was Money! Tell Me That Wasn't Money!

Jerry Holbert, 3/28/12:

So, is this a generic "Obama is running up the national debt" cartoon, a specific "the White House spends too much money" cartoon based on a news story I missed, or a really generic "those gol-durn guv'ment types wipe their asses on money, 'cause they're so high 'n' mighty" cartoon?

I mean, either way it's pretty flabby, but I'd kinda like to know what kind of flabby.

Those Who Are Repeating the Past Are Doomed To Forget About It

Jerry Holbert, 4/11/11:

There was no friction between the legislative and executive branches during the Clinton years, which were also a fiscal utopia characterized by a complete absence of partisan sniping, mud-slinging, attempted impeachments, and government shutdowns.

In the world Holbert remembers, at least.

Uncle Sam Has a Bigger Seat, Too

Jerry Holbert, 3/28/11:

Note that tax-payers are white men in their middle years: not women, not those unpleasant minorities, and certainly not corporations, who must be left unfettered to do whatever it is they do.

He's Despicable

Jerry Holbert, 3/22/11:

Hey! All of the Daffy Duck puns weren't taken, after all!

Anybody want to bet Holbert follows up with a Wabbit Fire reference, using Ahmadinejad as Bugs?

Early Math Instruction Is Vital

Jerry Holbert, 3/11/11:

The government's financial problems are all due to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, whose vast $451 million in federal funds is a whopping 0.012% of the $3.7 trillion 2012 budget.

That's Good Enough for Me

Jerry Holbert, 2/18/11:

All of PBS's funding problems would be solved if they'd only accept advertising like a real network.

Does Macy's Tell Gimbel's?

Jerry Holbert, 2/14/11:

Spending money on things like high-speed rail and health care are useless fripperies, the equivalent of fancy perfume, and America must give them up if we hope to compete with countries like China and its...high-speed rail and universal health care.

Lazy Is as Lazy Does

Jerry Holbert, 2/14/11:

Famous movie quotes: a lazy shortcut for the overworked editorial cartoonist, or mega-laughs no matter how often you see them? Before you answer, be sure to add more cowbell!

Jerry Holbert: 2/8/11

Jerry Holbert, 2/8/11:
Holbert, on the other hand, is just itching to unleash a plague of blood. On anyone.

Jerry Holbert: 2/7/11

Jerry Holbert, 2/7/11:
It is incredibly surprising when a politician runs for re-election, particularly when it is one the cartoonist dislikes. Also, Jerry Holbert has an incredibly provincial view of the world political center if he believes Barney Frank is more than mildly liberal for the USA.