Sure, it seems extreme, but extreme times call for extreme cartoons. When you have the Republican Speaker of the House threatening a national default, food stamps being slashed while farm subsidies are increased and an attempt to defund a program that has been in existence for four years, things have gone to crazy-land.
Of course, Senator Ted Cruz has gotten all of the attention because he is the most, well, annoying, and he is disliked by Democrats and Republicans in true bipartisan fashion. Rest assured, though, there are plenty of other loopy annoying guys in Congress. Senator Cruz wasn't the only one who voted to take $40 billion from food stamps while shoveling money over to farm subsidies.
And don't worry, I spend plenty of time going after Democrats like that mean ol' commie pinko Obama, it's just that when a political party gets taken over by extremists who are ready to hit the doomsday switch, I've got to cartoon a little louder. Let me know what you think, and be sure to comment, share and nail the cartoon to your nearest telephone pole.
[creepy narrator]
Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, Heaven't Gate . . . doomsday cults all. But none come close to the power, faith, and apocalyptic embrace of . . .
Congressional Republicanism.
Come, let us explore the special place, the better place, to which Republicans are taking us.
Our leaders have seen the future, you must accept their prophecies and see that apocalypse is the only way.
Cast aside your earthly nutritional urges, for where we are going, a safety net is a temporal, mortal affliction.
(Though farm subsidies will increase verily.)
Fund not, any health care reform, for though it is the law of the land, it must be destroyed.
Fear not sickness, pain and suffering, for we have a higher calling. Glorious destruction is nigh!
And when the unbelieving outsiders stop us, we must shut down government in a great defunding cataclysm.
(Do not fear-- it has been foretold, we will be victorious in our destruction!)
And when the forces of order and compromise continue to attack us, we will unleash the Doomsday Default our leaders have prophecized!
Yea, though the deficit has already been cut by four trillion dollars, we must cut everything, lest the devil of compromise returns!
Come, follow Congressional Republicans to a better place.
Unleash the wondrous uncompromising doomsday that will bring the resurrection of Ayn Rand-- and will guarantee safe passage on the Austerity Pod to planet Republicon!
(And so it is prophecized.)
