I drew a version of this one in 2006, anticipating the 2010 underwear bomb. With a slight caption revision, it’s as good today as it was then. As Mark Twain once observed, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
I was going through some old cartoons, looking for work to include in an upcoming show of my work, when I ran across this one from 2006. I thought at the time that exploding underwear was both a funny line and bizarre enough that it was unlikely ever to be a real threat. In a [...]
March 20, 2012–Republicans today unveiled their budget plan, which laid out a vision of this country’s economic future in stark contrast to the budget proposed by President Obama. Representative Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee and chief architect of the GOP plan, said, “This is about putting an end to empty promises from a bankrupt government.” Ryan’s blueprint would balance the federal budget in two years by sharply reducing taxes and eliminating almost all entitlement programs and completely doing away with the social safety net. In addition to creating just two tax brackets, the plan would reduce [...]