Because Healthcare Is Indiscriminately Destructive, Right?

Nate Beeler, 10/6/13:

Allowing people to sign up for healthcare plans that will start in three months -- not even actually getting healthcare now, just signing up to have coverage later -- is exactly like a nuclear bomb.

Elephantiasis

Nate Beeler, 7/12/13:

Gosh! Y'know what would be simpler and vastly easier to administrate? A single payer plan -- like Medicare or the vastly cheaper government-sponsored health-care plans every other modern democracy in the world has.

I wonder why we don't have one of those?

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Surfboard

Nate Beeler, 5/7/13:

Yes, that's right -- if retailers are forced to collect taxes on Internet purchasers (buyers are already required to pay those taxes; we're just all lawbreakers), the entire system of online commerce will crumble to pieces, leaving the Internet as the intellectual playground it was in 1995.

And that would be horrible!

Fantastic Voyage

Nate Beeler, 4/4/13:

The right side of the brain, in folk psychology, is believed to be the seat of emotions and creative thinking -- all of those hippie-style, nuts-and-berries, squishy liberal stuff that a technocrat like Obama wants nothing to do with.

Say what? Beeler was just failing to make a bland left-right joke without checking on what part of the brain does what? I can't believe any reputable editorial cartoonist would stoop to such a thing -- you must be mistaken.

Great Minds Drone Together

I actually like these two cartoons -- in contrast to most of the flabby drone cartoons that have cropped up this week -- but they do both say exactly the same thing.
Bob Gorrell, 2/7/13:

Nate Beeler, 2/7/13:

Beeler gets the nod on points: his drawing is more amusing, and he twists the knife with the Nobel Prize there.

Not a Clue, Sorry

Nate Beeler, 1/29/13:

This was marked as a local cartoon, so it's entirely possible I'm not supposed to be able to understand it.

But how difficult can it be to understand? Sure, Internet Cafes are running a combination charity bingo parlor and sausage factory -- doesn't that happen in every town?

I can't help but think that if the ground meat was just labeled, then I'd know what was going on.

A Death Is a Death, Right?

Nate Beeler, 1/13/13:

Gosh, it's almost as if the USA were one country, with a central federalized government controlling interstate commerce! And that both people and physical objects -- like guns that are legal in other parts of the country -- can travel into area of tighter regulation without any border crossings to stop them!

But that must not be true -- we're a loose confederation of city-states, each with total control of its own import-export, right?

Tear the Roof Off the Sucker

Nate Beeler, 1/11/13:

Oh, no -- not again.

FX: heavy sigh.

The debt ceiling has nothing at all to do with the budget -- Congress already voted on, and passed, legislation to set both spending and revenue for this year. It has to do with paying for what Congress has already agreed to. It's purely implementation, and it's an additional step that no other major economy has, because it's entirely superfluous.

Now, if Congress wants to introduce a balanced budget this year -- either by actually raising enough revenue to pay for the things that Americans want to get from their government, or finding a way to deliver those things substantially more cheaply -- they could certainly do that. But what they're complaining about now is signing the credit card bill after having eaten dinner, which only deadbeats do.

Droning On and On

Nate Beeler, 10/24/12:

Obama's foreign policy actually consists primarily of using flying robots to kill lots of people, which -- for some unspecified reason -- is a bad thing.

Don't Ask for Gold, Our Daily Bread, or No More Pain

Nate Beeler, 8/12/12:

Obama is personally responsible for the drought: if he'd taken a stronger stand on global warming, we'd have immediately reversed the warming trend and stopped weather extremes immediately.

Weed Will Get You Through Times of No Money Better Than the Reverse

Nate Beeler, 8/8/12:

This is a local cartoon, and so those of us outside Ohio are not supposed to understand it.

But I have to ask: is Ohio really trying to promote casinos and getting tripped up by Internet cafes, at the same time? What kind of wondrous legislation does that?

The All-New .50 Caliber Camera

Nate Beeler, 8/1/12:

American gun owners uniformly demand to be able to dress up in tactical gear and gas masks at all times, and insist that they have to carry shotguns and semi-automatic rifles (plus a couple of handguns) every time they go to the movies.

Thus, they couldn't possibly agree to any precautions or legal changes that could help prevent another mass shooting.

Nobody Made ANYTHING in Galt's Gulch!

Nate Beeler, 7/19/12:

Just like the real-world Obama, Cartoon Obama is pointing to a piece of government-created infrastructure -- in this case, the sidewalk that delivers customers to this lemonade stand -- and noting that it was paid for my the entire community, and not by the l'il tykes hawking sugar water.

An "Executive Order" is Not a "Rule" -- Discuss

Nate Beeler, 6/19/12:

Romney was thisclose to nailing down the Hispanic vote in the USA -- presumably by actually taking a stand on immigration other than "why don't they all just leave, so I don't have to worry about them" -- when that sneaky Obama did something totally unfair by actually giving them what they wanted.

It Was in the Pool!

Nate Beeler, 5/8/12:

Obama has a coherent, specific economic policy, even though no one on his team has ever articulated  what it might be. (Other than "I'll lower some taxes on poor people, and go around giving speeches calling for a recovery".) And that economic policy -- granting for the moment that some high-powered scientific instruments could actually detect it -- has hugely shrunk the US Workforce, as opposed to Europe, where Paul Ryan-style austerity measures have toppled several governments and plunged the continent into a renewed recession.

He's Unemployed Too, You Know!

Nate Beeler, 4/24/12:

So, if Romney wins, all of the unemployed will take it in turns to be his Veep?

Or is Beeler just trying to say, in a particularly clumsy way, that the lurkers support Romney in e-mail?

Every Dog Has His Day

Nate Beeler, 4/19/12:

Sure, an adult Romney might have mistreated a family pet while trying to make "good time" on a car trip, but Obama was served dog meat as a child!

(Note the subtle insinuations of un-Americanism and the faint whiff of distant birtherdom.)

Have a Healthy Birthday!

Nate Beeler, 3/24/12:

So, if Obamacare is a person, then wouldn't Obama be his father? And is that really what Obama's son would look like?

And is Beeler implying that any legislation that anyone fights in court is clownish? Or is that only legislation that reaches the Supreme Court? (Because the SC has a pretty full docket every single year, and the decisions are often surprising.)

Or is Beeler just indulging in the lazy cartoonist's friend, the "just enough confused metaphor to make my tee-time" cartoon?

My Health Insurance Covers Gas, But Not THAT Kind

Nate Beeler, 3/4/12:

News flash! Right-wingers now want to give the President the unilateral power to set prices!

No, really -- how else would a President directly affect the price of gas now?

Material Boys

Nate Beeler, 2/3/12:

Ha-ha! Madonna is not as young as she used to be!

And women are only valuable or interesting as long as they're sexually attractive to doughy, couch-potato men!