Birdbrains by Thom Bluemel for October 19, 2010

You be nice to those politicians. They wouldn’t be in Washington if they didn’t know what they were doing. They never lie, so If candidate R says candidate D is a crook, and candidate D says candidate R is a womanizer. believe both.

Rocks on both sides make me grateful for our fine pharmaceutical industry

They give me more than gas…they make me down right sick.

So, do we start over with an entirely new form of government? Or simply eliminate ALL private funding of campaigns - period?

I too, give them equal support, Doc!

Good Morning All

How about the buzzards’ bellies, Lew?

Nice nose and mouth on the boulder on the right side!

Plenty of gas to go around here.

i think politicians give everyone gas! @LafinLarry the bellies are jack-o-lanterns, aren’t they? @DryCula is that a vampire teddy bear?

I see five faces! One on each vulture’s belly, plus a profile on each rock to far left and right, plus a third on the politician’s left leg (knee as its nose).

I’m offended that the politician isn’t one of the vultures…

Just because he stinks, isn’t moving, and serves no useful function doesn’t mean he couldn’t get re-elected…

@ Shika-BOO the boot is just an “old brown shoe” in my mind. it’s actually a very small (on the order of an inch tall) flower vase that Mom put a bunch of dried flowers in for me at one time. it started life as a toothpick holder (when ihad a bad habit of chewing them), and now serves to hold down my cards on the rare occasions when i play poker.

apologies for boring the rest of you.

@DFrog, dead pols have won reelection in the past, as you know.

It’s up to us to inpose term limits.

Hurray!!!!! I see faces!!!!!!!!!!

This is one great toon, Thom! LOL.

We are all in agreement about politicians!!!

Dig, you know he’d have some like-bodied folks voting for him, especially if he were from Chicago.

MisngNOLA, as in, “My dad always voted Republican while he was alive, and always votes Democrat now that he’s dead”?

Diapers and politicans should be changed regularly.

^And for the same reason.

You’re a funny one, Yguy. LOL

♫♪Smiling faces, Smiling faces sometimes…………………..♪♫♫

Great cartoon, great comments!

sometimes folks vote in dead guys after all, what harm could they do?

I’ve long opined that we should do away with DC and make them stay home where they can be accessable to constituants instead of lobbyists. It will never happen (at least in my lifetime) but one can WISH!

It is definitely a job I would not want to have.

Of course, in all our griping it’s well to remember James Madison’s comment: which would you rather have, one tyrant five thousand miles away or five thousand tyrants not a mile away?

Johanan, unfortunately, as I work on the outskirts of Washington, DC I suffer with both maladies.