This cartoon brought to you by Jeb, Hillary, Christie et al. Happy new year!
North Korea keeps its people in the dark, so they won’t have known about their alleged Sony hacking and the alleged internet blackout retaliation anyway. And they won’t get this cartoon either.
I promised myself I’d avoid doing this in 2014: First pun of the year! For the sake of Cubans the Cuba embargo needs to end, though with a thawing of relations also needs to come a dialogue and reckoning with an unsavory Castro government over its major human rights abuses over the decades.
With all the kvetching about a Castro controlling Cuba since 1959: From 1981 to 2009, a Bush or Clinton was president or vice president of the United States. Nonetheless, I think they’re not done with us.
President Obama’s resumption of diplomatic relations with Cuba is another welcome (and overdue) thawing of Soviet-era, Cold War policy relics. However, Sen. Rubio of Florida said there’s no way Congress is going to repeal the spectacularly effective 1961 embargo designed to weaken Castro. So despite Obama’s popular overtures, one shabby old wall from the Soviet era will remain.
With Russian sanctions, inflation, the printing of rubles to keep up and high interest rates, vaunted global strategist Vladimir Putin has pretty much repeated Russian history boxed himself into a corner. Low oil prices will ice the cake. Merry Christmas, Washington!
Bankers bought their way into the “Cromnibus” spending bill that was jammed through Congress on Thursday night. Complex derivatives backed by the FDIC? Um, been there, crashed that.
All cops know who the bad actors are in their midst, the few officers who repeatedly give their departments bad names. Yet all reflexively line up in official, union-sanctioned solidarity when gross misconduct occurs, making the group look unintentionally indifferent to the concerns of communities they serve.
In that I do prefer to let my cartoons speak for me, I wonder what will happen next. Grand jury, perhaps?
Watch cartoonist Matt Davies as he draws his daily cartoon about the Senate torture report.
