Close to Home by John McPherson for October 16, 2023

Can’t be much different from what they’ve been doing

Easy as falling off a log!

they can’t balance the budget, how can they hope to balance on a log?

At this point I’ll take any solution.

More decorum than the 2020 and 2016 presidential nominations had

There is a school of piranahs under the surface.

They’ve been at loggerheads.

Can we televise it?

It seems a better way than what they’re doing now.

They want a well balanced leader.

I’d settle for semi-sane

This seems fair and balanced.

This way at least appears to require some skill…

They’re on a (log) roll with this idea.

Two suggestions: First, encase their feet in cement. Second, make the tank at least 15 feet deep. With luck, they’ll both fall off.

Brains don’t count then at all. – Figures.

I hope this goes viral. Funniest strip I’ve read in a while.

M’eh! … where are the gators?!

Seems as if our politicians have put the “funk” in dysfunctional…

Get out of there, Bleeb. There is nothing, and I mean nothing, there worth observing.

Fist fight! Fist fight!

Unfortunately, $hit floats.

And the best part is that this guarantees younger candidates getting it.

Excellent idea. In case of tie let’s have a knife fight. Both of them in the same telephone booth. (For the new kids, that’s just a really small box, not a TARDIS)

That’s how they do it in Canada, eh!

I lived in a small town and when a vote was tied they cut for high card to pick a winner. Rock, paper, scissors works too.

as long as there are sharks in the water.

For being president the method should be staying awake, shaking REAL hands, dance skills and most important of all….pronouncing China “CHY-NA”!!

Their platform is unsettled.

Toss some plugged in toasters in the water and we’ll have us a party!

This could be the best way!

Fill the tank with Piranhas and you’ve got winner. That would be bipartisan Piranhas by the way.

I LOVE apolitical, political cartoons! And my guess is Kevie couldn’t even stand straight on a log long enough to even begin the competition.

How about just nominate someone in the middle where half the Democrats and half the Republicans can support and move on?? That’s how democracy is supposed to work.

OK, this is actually funny today. The whole thing gives me a renewed appreciation for Nancy Pelosi.

Sadly this is what has become of today’s republicans one big laughing stock. Now please hand the gavel to Hakeem Jeffries’s so there can be real order in the House

What about a thunderdome-type cage? They all go in and the one who makes it out is the Speaker

When the log rolls over they’ll all be dead!

That is more energy exterted than any other time. The rest of the time, they don’t show up except for a which they know nothing.

For a speaker, they used to have a tweeter. Now they are looking for a woofer.

I think Jello Wrestling would be more appropriate.

Very Timely and funny. That’s how John rolls.

If only it were that simple.

Which one is Jim Jordan? They’re both coatless.

With the current configuration it will never work. That takes actual talent.

I don’t know if either one of them has enough balance. More off balanced IMHO.

Where is Jim Jordan’s wrestling outfit? Hope they don’t shower together!

Looks to be about as effective as what’s in place now!

It has to be quicker than the last 2 times they tried to vote for one

OK, I really did laugh out loud. Wow

sweat

I am partial to an duel on the Captial lawn at dawn myself.

I like it.

It would be quicker and probably be a better end result.

“The Chair recognizes the honorable gentleman from Maine….”

I’m just glad it’s not my party thats screwing over our country. It just seems to me that almost everything the COVID-in-Chief touched deteriorated.

This method couldn’t be any stupider or more unproductive than what they’re doing now. Pretty soon they’ll be drawing straws. /s