Sunday Cartoon
Blogging arrives on Saturday! The Wrongologist is on the road.
Another week in: Tales of America, The Cliff Dweller. There won’t be a default for about 3
months. But, the GOP’s Default Caucus — 18 Republican Senators and 144 House Republicans, (including the
chief Republican House negotiator for the next budget deal, Rep. Paul Ryan), clearly
preferred a default to allowing
millions of Americans access to affordable health insurance, or to re-opening the
government at the spending
levels Republicans had originally proposed.
Supporting an
economic shutdown by refusing to pay the nation’s bills is a stunningly extreme
position. Unfortunately, it’s a position that about 60% of Congressional
Republicans supported last week.
Use the quote by
Mark Twain on the Church Sign below to write a homily on the wisdom and smarts
displayed by the Tea Party and their fellow travelers in Congress over the past 16 days:
240 years have
changed the Tea Party:
America needs a reboot:
New polls are
grim:
We are now a
joke to much of the world:
