Cartoon Saturday ... on Friday?

Special note: Cartoon Saturday appears on Friday this week because Agnes and I will be out of town for the weekend and I may not have Internet connectivity. The next post will probably appear Sunday evening or Monday morning. Sorry for the confusion, Mike ...

Oh, what a week it's been ...

The GOP is gleefully pouring gasoline on the fires of a series of real and imagined scandals, working overtime to ensure that the Obama administration is tied in knots and can't accomplish anything: Benghazi, IRS targeting of conservative groups, the Justice Department's subpoenaing of the telephone records of Associated Press reporters as part of a leak investigation ... oh, and let's not forget the routine votes to eliminate Obamacare.

Nothing's going to get done in Congress until the next presidential election, so you might as well sit back, relax, and enjoy the cartoons. The ones you didn't elect, anyhow.

In honor of our elected reprehensives, our theme selection of cartoons this week deals with the genus headupus deasses, otherwise known as the common politician ...

There's an art to managing your in-boxes if you're a mover and shaker in politics ...

I think the President has the same nightmare ...

I don't know if there's fine print in the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision that gives a quantity discount for the purchase of politicians by special interests ...

Why lie outright when you can baffle everyone so well with cherry-picked quotes and statistics? ...

And rounding out our salute to the political class ...

 Things are never quite all black and white ..

As government agencies scramble to live within the constrained budgets brought on by the Sequester, there are some pretty novel approaches to economy emerging ...

I don't know if John has a dog ... but if he does, his house probably looks something like this ...

And how would you like your news presented, sir? ...

And finally, last weekend we lavished love and praise on our mothers for Mother's Day. And then came the day after ...

And that's it for this week's edition of Cartoon Saturday. Agnes and I are in Chicago, attending the wedding our one of the members of our extended family, and are enjoying a weekend away from Disneyland-on-the-Potomac. I'll tell you the whole story when we return. In the meantime, have a good day ... more thoughts once we're home.

Bilbo