Wednesday Toon Roundup 1- The Clown show is multiplying

[n2doc]

[NV Whino]

1. OMG! The trouble with Tribbles!

They're all classic, but that one is spot on.

[planetc]

2. all toons

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026771817

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026771827

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026771830

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026771834

[Tom_Foolery]

3. K & R. Thank you! n/t

[Jim Lane]

4. The last one has a Fox News-type mistake

One of the garbage cans is labeled "Tom Foley" but Speaker Foley was a Democrat and I don't remember hearing any sex-scandal allegations about him. The cartoonist probably meant to include Bob Livingston, the Republican who probably would have become Speaker if his adultery hadn't been uncovered just then.

[n2doc]

9. I think he probably meant Mark Foley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley_scandal

[Jim Lane]

12. Right, I was thinking "Speakers and would-be Speakers" rather than "Congressmen named Foley"

An interesting tidbit from your link, though, is the information about role in the Mark Foley scandal played by the then-Speaker... one Dennis Hastert. In fact, in the separate linked Wikipedia article about the scandal, Hastert's name appears 78 times!

I particularly liked this passage:

Boehner told The Washington Post that he had learned of the emails in the spring. Boehner initially said that he informed Hastert, and that Hastert assured him "we're taking care of it." After Hastert denied knowledge to the press, Boehner retracted his statement, stating that he could not recall the conversation.[89] Boehner later stated that he was "99 percent" sure he had informed Hastert.[91]

Still, I think would-be Speaker Bob Livingston has a legitimate grievance about being omitted from the cartoon. Mark Foley was never married, but Livingston admitted to having committed adultery.

[Jack Rabbit]

10. The cartoonist probably meant Mark Foley

He was the family values GOP congressman from Florida who in his secret life sent e-mails to 12- to 14-year old boys that you wouldn't want anybody sending to your son that age.

[markbark]

11. You're right....

Tom Foley's only "scandal" was to be the first sitting Speaker to lose a re-election bid in over 100 years.
Bit of a dust-up over term limits with the voters back home in Washington state.

....of course the Dems had other wounds to dress after the spanking they got in that election of 1994.

[n2doc]

13. He's corrected it on his site

I can't post the toon here as they have it in a form that doesn't work on DU, but here is a link

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/jim-morin/article22937190.html

[Jim Lane]

14. I'm impressed that he cared enough to correct it. Thanks for the link! (n/t)

[daleanime]

5. Thanks for the toons......

[longship]

6. Yup! Mr. Spock has the correct analysis. R&K nt

[arcane1]

7. "As long as you fail science"

[Gothmog]

8. Thank you for the Cartoons