Tom Toles - political cartoons - August 8, 2010

Election digest

*** Friday rant -- heat exhaustion edition This will be my last rant about the climate. Cartoonists sometimes look just like the archetypical cartoon character crawling across the desert. Gary Larson did a cartoon about two guys crawling across...

By Tom Toles | August 13, 2010; 12:00 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (59)
Categories: GOP
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Thought for food

*** The monkey chased the weasel One more time around the cobbler's bench on Bush-Gore 2000! I brought it up earlier this week simply to make a point about the implacable GOP need to be in power, other considerations...

By Tom Toles | August 12, 2010; 12:00 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (23)
Categories: Economy and jobs, Federal government
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Fire escapism

*** Crime and punishment I rub my very eyes in disbelief that Michelle Obama's trip to Europe is a "controversy." That "questions" about the "optics" or "timing" or "sensitivity" of a trip to Spain received more than one paragraph...

By Tom Toles | August 11, 2010; 12:00 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (36)
Categories: Environment & global warming
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Zero tolerance

*** Gap years The great part about not remembering everything is that you can see the significance of the things you do remember. The Bush-Gore recount in Florida is one of those things. I remember thinking as the argument...

By Tom Toles | August 10, 2010; 12:00 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (40)
Categories: GOP
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Jumbo shrimp

*** Table manners Last Monday's cartoon about the Mideast peace talks generated enough fair criticism that I think it warrants a reply. It culminated in an avalanche of e-mails that arrived Thursday afternoon. The complaint was that I got...

By Tom Toles | August 9, 2010; 12:00 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (16)
Categories: Economy and jobs, GOP
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Born to run

By Tom Toles | August 8, 2010; 4:37 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (32)
Categories: GOP, Obama White House
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