Political Cartoon #7

This is "Birther Trump" by Keefe of the Denver Post. It shows Donald Trump tooting a horn, which is playing a note labeled "Obama's Birth Certificate". The caption "Donald 'One-Note' Trump" suggests that Trump doesn't have much going for him and has very little to say beside questioning Obama's eligibility for President.

Political Cartoon #6

This is "PA. Legislative Payroll" by Randy Bish of the Pittsburgh Times-Review. It shows a truck labeled "PA. Legislative Payroll" going off a cliff, in the opposite direction of "reality". This is to represent how ridiculous and out of control the payroll is Pennsylvania government is.

Political Cartoon #5

This is "The Dam Debt" by Taylor Jones of the Hoover Digest. The cartoon uses the image of the Hoover Dam as a metaphor for the problems with debt and and figuring out how to fix it. The debt is overflowing over and cracking through the dam, which represents fiscal sanity. This is to say that the government is losing its fiscal sanity and the debt is overwhelming them.

Political Cartoon #4

This is "I Hate Unions", another cartoon by Daryl Cagle of MSNBC.com. The cartoon is satirizing Reupblicans (represented in the cartoon by elephants, of course) and their ridiculous outrage and hatred towards unions. The artist seems to suggest that they all just want to outdo each other in their hatred, like small children

Political Cartoon #3

The cartoon is by Daryl Cagle of MSNBC.com. It shows a man-power-thing committing seppuku. It's suggesting that the nuclear power industry is so bad and is so dangerous, especially given the recent events in Japan, that it should just end, or as this cartoon suggests, kill itself.

Political Cartoon #2

The cartoon is "Proposed Cuts to PBS" by Daryl Cagle of MSNBC.com. It's referencing the current situation where many republicans want to stop the government from funding PBS. The elephant references republicans, and the Sesame Street characters represent PBS. There are bullet holes in the wall, suggesting that the elephant may have missed. The Sesame Street characters are blindfolded and smoking, which may mean that PBS is killing itself and it doesn't even know it.

Political Cartoon #1

The cartoon is "Westboro Baptist" by Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune. It shows Lady Justice holding up a scale that has the Westboro Baptist church and the first amendment weighed equally. Lady Justice is representing the Supreme Court who ruled that the Westboro Baptist church was allowed to protest at funerals. She is holding her knows to represent how the Supreme Court is ashamed of this decision, even though anything else might have been unconstitutional.