Cartoon Saturday

It's been quite a week, even by current standards ...

Saudi Arabia stuck a tentative toe into the water of the 21st century when it announced it will lift a 35-year-old ban on movie theaters in the kingdom - "a watershed moment in the development of the cultural economy in the Kingdom," according to Minister of Culture and Information Awwad Alawwad; House and Senate Republicans have agreed on on the framework of their fast-track, closed-door tax reform package, hoping to ram it through Congress in time for Donald Trump to sign it as a Christmas gift for big business and the wealthy; Democratic candidate Doug Jones scored a stunning victory over Republican Roy Moore to become the first Democratic Senator elected in Alabama in a quarter of a century; a pair of lovers in India have been accused of killing the woman's husband and then having cosmetic surgery performed on the male lover so he could take the husband's place; and near Dulles Airport in Washington, DC, a man was arrested after getting into a car crash, taking off his clothes and jumping on a vehicle, causing major delays during the Tuesday afternoon rush hour.

This week, in honor of a Congress that continues to show us just how much it believes in serving the average citizen, our cartoons deal with politics and politicians ...

I'd wondered how early a career in politics began ...

Rural America ... you know, the place that used to be the stronghold of American values rather than the seat of its worst fears and hatreds ...

True enough ...

Yes, that's about how it works ...

This, of course, presupposes that the wearer has any interest at all in keeping stories straight ...

You say "campaign ad," I say "fraud" ... let's call the whole thing off ...

How Faux News finds its on-air talent ...

Does not apply to the Trump administration, which does not believe in corrections, and the clarifications don't make sense ...

How the pyramid scheme of politics works ...

Oh, well ... CNN and Fox are choices, after all ...

And that's your Cartoon Saturday for this week - helping you laugh as well as cry over politics. It's going to be a cold and blustery weekend here in NoVa, although it's looking like we won't have a white Christmas, except in the White House. Sigh.

Don't forget to keep casting those votes for Ass Clown of the Year - there are just two weeks remaining for you to do your part to dishonor those who have earned this august* title.

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow, when Poetry Sunday returns.

Bilbo

* Yes, I know it's actually December. Just work with me on this, okay?