What a cast of characters: MiddleMan (the POTUS 44), Captain Orange (House Speaker John Boner [R-OH]), the Human Turtle (Senate Minority Leader Mitch NoChin (R-KY), and CantMan (House Majority Leader Eric Cannot (R-VA). What a dilemma for the Dumbos: Greed Street says, "Deal" and the Teabaggers say, "No Deal." The Dumbos are squabbling among themselves and the clock is ticking. The last panel leaves some confusion. It is the burn-and-slash CantMan who refuses to back down from the entitlement reductions, not MiddleMan. MiddleMan has offered cuts in federal spending, but he has not placed Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid on the table. If we have (fair & balanced) fiscal lunacy — even with this correction, so be it.
[x This Modern World]
MiddleMan & The Debt Limit Debacle
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Salon and Working for Change. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly.
Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002.
When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political weblog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001.]
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