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Making Political Sausage

© Walt Handelsman
It has often been said that making laws is like making sausage: You’ll be much happier if you don’t see it happen. But the current health care bill has been exposed to unprecedented scrutiny from both sides and from the media. As Ezra Klein notes in the Washington Post:
So far in the [...]

Irony

© Ben Sargent
Most Americans are upset at health care reform because it doesn’t go far enough, and are upset at the stimulus because it isn’t creating enough jobs.
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Thank Heavens for Olympia Snowe!

© Steve Sack

© Joel Pett
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Not a Preexisting Condition

© Mike Luckovich
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Awesome Grayson Speech in Congress

Madame Speaker, I have words for Democrats and Republicans tonight.
Let’s start with the Democrats
We as a party have spent the last six months, the greatest minds in our party, dwelling on the question, the unbelievably consuming question of how to get Olympia Snowe to vote on health care reform. I want to remind us all [...]

Summer Vacation

© Steve Sack
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I’ve heard of Cash for Congressmen, but this is ridiculous!

© Ken Catalino
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NIMBY

© Bob Gorrell
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Stupid Is as Stupid Says – Congressional Edition

© August J. Pollak
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Esquire’s 10 Worst Members of Congress

Esquire presents the 10 Congress-critters most deserving of being voted out of office this year:
http://www.esquire.com/features/esquire-endorsements-2008/10-worst-members-congress-1108
Pretty evenly split by party – 5 Republicans, 4 Democrats, and 1 Independent (guess who!).
My fave is Michele Bachmann, who made their list even before she totally went nutso on Hardball. Here is Esquire’s description of her:
One gets the impression that [...]

If today’s Congress presided during Watergate

© Mike Luckovich
I have to add that it would have been worse if today’s media had presided during Watergate. Would Woodward or Bernstein be able to publish their exposé of Watergate today?
UPDATE: See also Glenn Greenwald’s column that discusses this cartoon.
UPDATE 2: Another column, this time in the Daily Kos, that is relevant to this [...]