Michael Ramirez for October 13, 2023

AS IF Republicans in the House are different from other Republicans.

They are ALL cowards, terrified of or worship the 215 pound Stable Genius.

And they have NO rock bottom.

The elephant in the roo… kitchen,

Kudos to a cartoon that makes sense.

Uncle Samantha (labeled the American People) holding a crying infant elephant (labeled House Republicans) would be more on the mark. Nearly half of the House are, and are behaving as, adults. Still, have hopes for you Ramirez. Occasionally.

Well, Ramirez, you supported that mess in the past and this is what you inherited. Unfortunately, you’ve inflicted it on the rest of the country as well. Shame on you. I certainly have no sympathy for you now.

Some truth here!

I don’t know what’s worse: The lack of unity over anything in the repub party and inability to get anything done, or the blind-sheep unity of the dems regardless of how wrong or absurd something might be. Unfortunately, they do get some things done but those things are usually bad policy. What I do know is neither party is making things better, only worse.

Top to bottom (from the Oval Office to the ever expanding, bloated bureaucracy), this is the worst version of the US government in my lifetime. I hope things do not have to get any worse before they get better. While pretty much everything has been going in the wrong direction (economy, crime, civility, societal division, education, border security, international standing, the rise of the bad actors around the globe, etc.) our “leaders” seem to only be able to either do nothing or somehow make matter worse.

All it would take are a few® votes for Hakim Jefferies and the House would be back in business.

And on the other side, they are waving the Palestinian flag in support of Hamas’ effort to eliminate the Jews.

Shouldn’t that kid be shown with wet pants?

It’s your team Mikey. You picked a dandy.

Really nice artwork today.

Are you my mother?

At the time of the deadly Hamas attack on Israel, Washington’s closest ally in the Middle East, the United States had no confirmed ambassadors to Israel, Egypt, Oman, or Kuwait. The State Department’s top counterterrorism envoy position has sat empty for more than two years, the top human rights envoy position—the assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor—has been unfilled for the entirety of the Biden administration, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has not had a top Middle East official in nearly three years.

The mostly empty bench is due to a nearly broken Senate confirmation process, where nominees have languished in limbo for months or even years due to the ‘new normal’ practice of Republican senators placing sweeping holds on all nominees for different agencies over policy disputes with the administration.

On the Pentagon side, hundreds of senior military posts are on indefinite pause due to Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blanket hold on nominees over the Biden administration’s abortion access policies for the military—including senior officials at U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Middle East.

At the State Department, Republican Sen. Rand Paul has held numerous nominees over access to documents on the origins of COVID-19, while fellow Republican Sens. J.D. Vance and Ted Cruz have also previously issued holds.

…and We have no Speaker of the House for the foreseeable future. (thanks to Gaetz and the Freedom Caucus and typical con fumduckery)

A bit of tough love would fix some of this.. When you have rabble rousers or spoilsports on your team.. just maybe you kick them out.

If the republicans don’t get it together soon, they’re never gonna get Biden impeached.Remember? The impeachment? It must happen? Criminal Genius, blah blah blah, but they’ve stopped talking about it?Yeah. That’s what I fu**ing thought.Bunch of fake a$$ trump-humping losers.

‘Shameful’: Trump’s praise of Hezbollah terrorists denounced by Israeli officialAn Israeli government official is denouncing Donald Trump’s praise of the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, calling it “shameful” and saying to proves they cannot rely on him.Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Cabinet, “told Israel’s Channel 13 that it was ‘shameful that a man like that, a former U.S. president, abets propaganda and disseminates things that wound the spirit of Israel’s fighters and its citizens,’” the Associated Press reports. Republicans are insane cogsugers.

Celebrating selfishness tends to lead to that kind of behavior.

REPUBLICANS! Grow backbones. The crazies only have as much power as you give them. Tell them to pound sand.

Oh no you don’t. That’s no infant, it’s a 30 year old spoiled child who has been brought up on nonsense. Since Newt Gingrich and the rise of FOX News they have been told that media is biased against them. That non-Republicans are leftist bent on destroying their country and any attempt to compromise with them is treachery. That science is a sham. That all elections they lose are rigged. That rules are for suckers. And on and on and on…

They are basically all Donald Trump Jr.

Of course their voters have been fed the same nonsense so the people they elect are reflecting the beliefs of their voters. Marjorie Greene and Matt Gaetz win their elections by large margins.

Well, you know . . . spare the rod . . .

The eyes on that elephant say it all

The rancor of this discourse is why I stopped posting some time ago. Both the Palestinians’ and the Israelis’ positions are fraught with moral ambiguities and reducing them to sound bites simply displays ignorant, reactive behavior that shuts out any consideration of those ambiguities. This is the same behavior associated with American political discourse—except that ignorant, reactive behavior by the Democrats is displayed by a negligibly small number of politicians whereas the entire Republican party is driven by its hormonally-driven fear, anxiety, and craziness. I don’t blame the Republican politicians. They were put there by ignorant, fearful, anxious people who have no interest in attempting to solve problems. The Republican politicians have no ethics, no platform, no agenda other than power and money. And, at heart, these poor folks are simply performing monkeys for their ignorant, anxious, fearful constituents. The really disturbing thing is that most Americans agree on many, many issues way more than they disagree. But there’s no way to work through those issues when one party refuses to behave honestly and with integrity.

Does he own a mirror? John Fetterman, completely unironically: “America is not sending their best and brightest, you know, to Washington, D.C.”