How should the Senate Vote?

First caught by Andrew Sullivan. If I had a frame, I'd hang it on my wall.

Jeff Parker: "Do As I Say, Not As I Do..."

Thanks Cagle Cartoons!

The look on the Donkey's face in the third panel slays me.

Tom Toles reveals your secret Liberal Fantasy (GRAPHIC)

Deep down, this is what you really want, right?

Come December, when the Bipartisan Deficit Commission issues its report, watch the Republicans bring...well...nothing to a knife fight.

The Bipartisan Deficit Commission issues its report in December. Its going to have some painful ideas in it, like tax breaks and benefit reductions. (Of course, that's just rampant speculation on my part. I have no idea what's going to be in the final report, and neither does anyone at the Huffington Post.)

But what is known is that come December, there will be a report.

And...come December, the President will have the framework of a plan to combat the deficit. It will be Bipartisan (hell its in the name of the commission, isn't it?), and it will have specifics.

That's not to say the specifics will be popular even with Democrats. But we'll have a plan.

What will the Republicans have?

Remember, these yahoos have been running all year about the need to fight the deficit.  Only...without saying what they'd do to fight the deficit.

They say they're all about the Deficit, but when you ask them what they'd cut....

Oh yeah, a "plan" to cut Federal Spending by 40 percent, and layoff 7 million Federal workers in the middle of a recession. (Funny, that number accounts for the 3-4 Million jobs saved by the Stimulus and the 3 Million jobs saved by the auto bailout. What are Conservatives trying to make up for lost job-slashing time?)

This is what Mr. Market is really like... (IMAGE)

Benjamin Graham, in his book "The Intelligent Investor", which I'm still getting around to finishing, wrote how when you invest in Stocks, you're getting in business with a partner known as "Mr. Market". Mr. Market is a moody fellow, manic depressive actually. You're never going to know what his mood is going to be.  Things could be looking up, and Mr. Market will depress the market down.  Things could be looking horrible, and Mr. Market will just go out there and buy, buy, buy.

This is that idea...in cartoon form. Thanks, Gizmodo for spotting it first.

"Tom Toles is worth a thousand words"

All this has happened before...all this will happen again...

Yes, for those of you already in the know, that was a Battlestar Galactica/Caprica reference, but it also applies to our health care debate, as the graphic from 1955 below demonstrates:

Finally, A Political Cartoon...for Statistics Majors...

If you can't see it clearly, head to Ezra's site.