It’s time to take a break from the current stream of depressing news and give thanks for turkeys you may know and love . . . or know and despise. What better place to turn for some buffoonery than the newly elected and reshuffled Congress. (Don’t worry, I’ll keep focusing on issues of race, guns and justice, but Thanksgiving is a good time to take a short breather.)
Let’s thank the Cartoon Gods for the victorious people in Congress who won after running campaign ads like this and this. Besides some entertaining (and if you dig a little deeper, depressing) new additions to our national legislature, there are also reshuffled chairmen who leave cartoonists drooling. A chairman of a science committee who is an avowed anti-science climate denier? Got one! A chairman who will shepherd tax policy and budgets through Congress but has a penchant for incredibly fuzzy numbers? Got one!
This cartoon just scratches the surface of what’s in store for us, but you can see the Cartoon Gods have been busy. (My sadness as a citizen is usually eased by my excitement as a cartoonist for impending hypocrisy and doom.) Happy Thanksgiving, now take a minute to like, comment and share this cartoon before you fall prey to a food coma.
Hey, kids!
Let’s take a holiday break from all this uncomfortable race relations stuff and pause to give thanks to the Cartoon Gods . . . for the flock of new and resurgent Congressional Turkeys!
Give thanks for Mitch McConnell— for his love of the will of the people and getting things done . . . unless you’re talking about the will of the people in two-thousand-eight and twenty-twelve. (That was different, really.)
Thanks for Joni Ernst. Forget the hog castration, she loves UN conspiracies, armed revolt and a certain pair of billionaire brothers!
Thanks for Ted Cruz— who brought us the government shutdown and thinks George Soros is out to [ominously] steal your golf courses!
Thank you, Cartoon Gods, for new arrival Mark Walker— who wants to go to war with . . . Mexico!
And mustn’t forget Tom Cotton, who won on a platform of protecting the Arkansas borders from the Islamic State!
Thank you, almighty Cartoon Gods, for Jody Hice— who doesn’t believe Muslims are protected by the First Amendment . . .
Jim Inhofe, who doesn’t believe in science . . .
And Paul Ryan, who doesn’t believe in numbers!
So many Congressional Turkeys to be thankful for, so little time! Thank you, Cartoon Gods!
[gobble-gobble, thunderclap, honk]