John McCain's 21 Gum Salute (No, that's not a typo.)

He's the personification of irrelevance, yet Sen. John McCain continues to show up on Sunday morning "news" shows.

Why?

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Impure Thoughts, A Comparison

Blur your eyes, and make your computer display wiggle. We're climbing into the WABAC Machine and going back to 1976 to revisit Jimmy Carter's "Playboy" interview...

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times....

Blur them again, and we're back in 2012...

This time it's Grover Norquist commenting on Republican members of Congress who are thinking about the possibility of perhaps...maybe...there's a chance they might consder...

GASP!...SHUDDER!

Raising taxes!

No Republican has voted for a tax increase. We've got some people discussing impure thoughts on national television.

Draw your own conclusions, of course; but I've been saying for years that making money is the true religion of members of the self-righteous right.

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Note: The WABAC Machine from The Bullwinkle Show is the perfect device to explore and evaluate the "BULL-winkle" emanating from the mouths of Grover Norquist and other Republicans working to undermine the efforts of President Obama.

If U.S. Land Were Divided Like U.S. Wealth

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this one is worth at least that.

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RNC Headquarters Gets New Carpeting

In the wake of the drubbing the GOP took on November 6, one prominent Republican after another has denounced the rhetoric the party used to sell its policies to the American electorate.

They're not denouncing the policies mind you, just the rhetoric used to sell policies which alienated a majority of the electorate and handed President Obama a second term.

Like so much of what passes for reform, the post-election cry for reform coming from the GOP is an insincere call for more of the same with form once again trumping substance. It amounts to little more than a new twist on the old trick of sweeping embarrassing dirt under a rug.

In this instance, the detritus consists of the GOP's unpopular, Machiavellian social policies, while the twist involves installing new, state-of-the-art, wall-to-wall carpeting designed to achieve the appearance of substantive change.. 

Today's Six Chix comic illustrates the concept...

SixChix November 23, 2012

Thanksgiving - A Comic Timeline

Today's The Flying McCoys comic takes us back to the first Thanksgiving...

Next, Mike Luckovich shows us what might have been...

Bound and Gagged illustrates what it has actually become...

Finally, as a married male, who intends to live at least a while longer, I thought it wise to thank my wife for the meal we’ll be eating later today and for putting up with me for lo these many years BEFORE she sees today’s Baby Blues comic.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Elephants' Graveyard

Gerrymandered congressional districts will prolong the journey, of course; but unless the GOP does more than change its rhetoric, the party of Lincoln, now following the footsteps of the Whigs and the dodo, will continue the long, slow, march to irrelevancy and eventual extinction.

This is unfortunate, and progressives should not gloat at the prospect or see this as a victory.

For over two hundred years, the dynamic tension inherent in our two-party system has produced good governance through the process of substantive debate and compromise.

America needs two, strong political parties rooted in reality while differing in philosophy if our experiment in self governance is to continue to flourish.

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Driving Home A Point

Elections have consequences!

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