Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for June 11, 2021

Who can obstruct progress and allow for the fall of democracy the most, Mitch, Manchin, or Sinema?

If they want to filibuster, make them do the work.

That terrifying last panel deserves to be Mitch McConnell’s official portrait.

What the hell is cloture? Wasn’t she the wife of Clovis I (the first Frankish king)? Or maybe it’s the thing my wife claims I can’t find when I’m in bed with her?

What a summation. Brilliant.

I had thought the filibuster was a largely American thing, but I see from the good folk at Wikipedia that it is used in many places, although the consensus seems to be a) you should actually do the talking, and b) your speech should occasionally veer towards some relevance to the topic at hand.

Brutally accurate, Ruben!!

mitch looks like a human got covered in mutagen right after coming in contact with a turtle. Old Age Mutant Turtle Human, loser with receding hair, boomer power!

That’s a tough one; I’d say A, B, and C. Plus all republicrats.

Yet Dems will LUV the filibuster when they next become the minority. Most perplexing, verily!

Well, Trump’s out for now, and the Democrats are doing (or can do) little or nothing, so the Republicans have some quiet time to plan for 2024, which will make Trump and 1/6/21 look like a middle school pageant.

Damn, I miss the honest filibuster of Jimmy Stewart. Of course then, he was fighting for principles.

dump the filibuster each party gets their chance when in a majority – at least SOMETHING will get done!

Power to the people.

Did you ever wonder why no other country that has become a democracy since 1776 has adopted the US Constitution? Or the filibuster?

It’s true that nowdays Moscow Mitch can “fund-raise” (in other words, take bribes) while he is filibustering. Then again Holys—t Hawley was “fund-raising” while the mob of traitors was storming the Capitol in their attempt to over-throw our democracy…….

(Dis)United States of America, your government and your democracy are both in extremely ill health. A possible diagnosis/prognosis is the untimely demise of both. You have my sympathy as well as my thoughts and prayers.

Here’s Jen Sorensen’s statement on the Pulitzer committee’s inexplicable slight on the entire field of editorial cartooning, which included a nomination for Mr. “Bolling” and his superb work over the past year:

“The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists strongly disagrees with the decision by the Pulitzer Board to award no Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning in 2021. We are mystified by the pointed rejection of talented Finalists as well as the many other artists who have been creating powerful work in these most eventful and challenging of times.

“The medium of editorial cartooning has been evolving for many years now, yet the Pulitzer board remains extremely traditional and narrow-minded in its tastes, apparently uncomfortable with contemporary trends in opinion cartooning and comic art. Last year the board discarded the jurors’ choices and selected its own winner; this year represents a new low in this trend of insularity and institutional hubris.

“It is notable that the three Finalists chosen for 2021 were of Jewish, Latinx, and Native American backgrounds, yet this is the first time in 48 years that the board has chosen not to issue an award. No woman has won in twenty years, and there has been only one female Finalist during those two decades.

“As this has been a tremendously difficult time economically for our profession, the AAEC would like to request a return of the entry fees for those who submitted. We would also urge radical structural reform of the award to evaluate modern opinion cartoons by 21st century standards.”

https://www.editorialcartoonists.com/a-statement-from-the-aaec-on-the-2021-pulitzer-prizes/

Congratulations on being one of the three finalists in the Pulitzer editorial cartoon category.

Congratulations on being chosen as one of the three finalists by the Pulitzer board for editorial cartoonists. Kudos.