Cartoon Saturday

If you thought November would be better than October, well, I've got news for you ...

Der Furor has changed his legal residence for tax purposes from Florida to New York, even though he likely doesn't pay any significant taxes in New York anyhow; ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself and two children when cornered by American commandos; a relentlessly divided House of Representatives adopted a process for impeachment of Der Furor; Mukhlis bin Muhammad of the Aceh Ulema Council - who helped draft strict adultery laws in Indonesia's deeply conservative Aceh region - has been publicly whipped after being caught having an affair with a married woman; and in Oxford, Indiana, a woman was found dead with a python wrapped around her neck, in a house which also contained 140 other snakes*.

This week, in honor of the behavior of Republican members of Congress in strident defense of the indefensible, we offer a collection of current-events-appropriate cartoons about clowns ...

Sooner or later, Stephanie Grisham will get kicked to the curb to join Sarah Sanders and Sean Spicer and they'll need to find a replacement ...

How the White House staffing process works ...

No shortage, here ...

Congressional Republicans serve the same purpose in Der Furor's rodeo ...

True ...

Washington isn't the place for coulrophobes ...

Yes. Yes, they are ...

Making decisions on post-Congressional careers ...

The search for Cabinet Secretaries continues ...

In DC, the clowns don't distract the boss, they distract the audience ...

And there you have it - our first collection of cartoons for November. It helps to have something to distract you from all the purposeful distractions from the failings of your government, eh?

Have a good day and a great weekend. Come back tomorrow, when Musical Sunday returns with a salute to lawyers. More thoughts then.

Bilbo 

* There was some confusion in the initial reporting of the location of the woman's death, which was later clarified when it was confirmed that the house contained 140 snakes, rather than 435.