Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 25, 2015

Hey, at least GT is honest about his biases.

:-)

Comon Garry, don’t forget Molly Ivins. She is the first & best!

Buy the books Shrub & Bushwhacked for more info.

If Jebbie running for President means Trudeau will return to full time cartooning (weekdays, too), it’s almost worth it. Almost. As a Floridian, I dread the idea of Jeb messing up the nation the way he messed up my state…

Family of Secrets was also a good read on the subject.

He’s hedging bets.

Whacking bushes since 1967? Snerk I love this ’toon.

I’ll believe it when he starts producing weekly cartoons again.

O’dumbo provides so much more material and he is already in office.

But Doonesbury debuted in 1970, not 1967!

Thank Dog!! I was afraid we were going to have to depend on Faux[NOT]News…

Molly Ivins. We hardly knew ye. But we sure loved ye.

how good is a bushwhacker who can’t keep Bushes from being elected and re elected?

You forgot grampy Prescott Bush’s dealing with the Nazis during WW2 that financed the Bush dynasty and daddy Bush’s links to the Hinckley family and ….. OMG, it just goes on and on with that scumbag family. GOP trolls: they have eyes and yet they do not see.

If I were a cartoonist, I’d be lampooning the ENTIRE RepuliKan’t Klown Kar, not just focus on the Jebster. Compared to some of the early possibles, he’s appears (the key word here being “appears”) almost normal. But I’ll be popping loads of popcorn for the cavalcade of idiocy to come, that’s for sure.

Bless him. More truth in one Doonesury strip than a weeks worth of FOX.

Go to it, Garry. Now that we don’t have Herblock anymore, we’re depending on you!

BRAVO!!! Looking forward to seeing this, if Jeb decides to run!

America may never recover from thinking GW Bush would be worth electing as president. Assuming it actually did

Politics today on both sides promises almost too much low hanging fruit for GT.

*;)

Nope, truth telling. Face it, both Bushy presidents were inept morons, the only thing they were good at was running the country into the ground. Go do some RESEARCH!! The absolute last thing this country needs is another craptastic Bush as president. We are just finally getting over the total disaster of the last Bushy regime, who in there right mind would want to try that again?

Did Bush I lie under oath more wimpily than Reagan did?

In 1967 I was in ’Nam, and Garry created a fantastic strip.

But this theme isn’t “Bushwhacking”, but rather their family from Prescott (anti-Semite with Henry Ford and backer of Hitler’s rise to power) on would be “whack a mole”, if not for the more accurate term, “whack a weasel”, and they just keep popping up.

From bailling out first as aircraft commander in WW II and leaving your crewmen (YOUR responsibility) to die, to deserting from the Texas Guard to flee to Alabama, it is the myth of “courage”, and the myth of intelligence, surrounding the family that has proven most destructive to America. Chickenhawks and the ability to bankrupt not one, but two OIL companies (nearly impossible) should warn of what the future could hold with Jeb. Think his daughter, like LImbaugh, skating on drug charges the “common person” would serve decades in prison for in Florida, and it ain’t hard to see what the “common person” would get from another Bush in the White House.

Please, carry on Garry.

Oh yes. Keep in mind, NONE of them have a ‘free hand’, they are surrounded by holdovers and sycophants, chickenhawks and grifters of every stripe. The US is defacto a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wall Street and the Military Contractor Industrial Complex. Ike was right, just too late.

“Bring it on,” Gerry! Can’t wait!

Whack Jeb Bush? I’d thought you’d be way too busy on the Obama Tax changes and the freeing of the Gitmo killers to even worry about Jeb Bush, who even isn’t in da Prez Offfice. Yet. Say …. how about HELPING to get him elected, then whack away at his record as da Prez!

Don’t forget the late senator Prescott Bush, Republican, Connecticut, his dealings with backers of the nazi regime and the censure by the U.S. senate during the 40’s

Let’s hope a Bush runs and wins. Gary’s been dry on the presidential humor since the election of Obama.

Yawn—-the last time this guy was funny was when he had Mike trying to figure out how a Coke machine works. His taking a nap for the last 6 years proves how one dimensional his political humor is. More’s the pity for that.

I highly recommend the last edition of “Fortunate Son” in addition to those books named above.

Great. More trite, hackneyed, retreaded jokes. This strip used to be funny. It isn’t even cutting-edge satire any more. Much like the National Lampoon parody of this strip (going back 30 years or more to the “Dacron Republican-Democrat” Sunday paper parody), its wit as well as its imagery are all photocopied. There it was from one panel to the next; here, it may as well be.

I didn’t but a friend sent me all the Doonesbury strips from the college paper

Go with the experienced professionals, I always say. (:-)

Heee-WACK!

Mike? …. How do you keep your glasses on? Mine slide off my nose if I have them riding so low.

I learned all about Bushes from Doonesbury. Shall continue to do so.

Good job GT. You’ve still got it!

@Night-Gaunt49“Being partisan is a blind man’s game. Be independent.”.The idea has much going for it, but the problems are many.Nobody can do everything, so the president will need people to help him execute the orders of Congress. Few of them will be without party affiliations..The president needs the support of Congress to push forward needed legislation. If he can’t get along with them, they are Constitutionally empowered to block his designs. Unless he is prepared to throw out the Constitutiion, he will have to work within it..Many call themselves independent but side with one party or another philosophically. Not honestly saying so offends all parties..Without having anyone batting for him or her, the president runs the risk of being impeached whenever any questionable actions are taken. You won’t have anyone handy to say, “Everybody lies to federal judges about sexual harassment,” or “I thought it was a neat idea to fund the Contras by selling weapons to Iran.”

@James Lewis@DavidHuieGreen“Go back to the actual records of the vote, and you will discover the glaring fact that if Ralph Nader had sensibly asked his supporters to back Gore, Gore would have won easily, with no confusion about the hanging chads or anything else.We must all remember to thank Ralph Nader for the election of Shrub. ".Yep..Four years later he wanted to run again but was frustrated by the fact that everybody kept telling him, “You’re the one who put Bush in office in the first place.”.He denied it, but it was obviously true. (And the world is better off for his sucking votes to his third party efforts.).If the people of Tennessee could have brought themselves to vote for their “favorite son”, Gore would’ve won..If the Democratic supervisor of elections in Miami hadn’t decided to use butterfly ballots which led to unintended votes for Pat Buchanan, Gore would’ve won..Every election has many interested parties.

The Houston Chronicle wimped out (with a capital “W”) on this strip and ran a 2013 one where Michael Doonesbury goes clothes shopping instead.

I adore Doonesbury.

And the current oval office occupant? The man wouldn’t know the truth if his teleprompter told him so!!