Category Archives: Congress
President Don Rickles
President Rickles insulted members of his audience during last night’s state of the union speech. He criticized the Supreme Court, while some justices sat directly in front of him, for its ruling in favor of free speech in the Citizens United v. FEC case. Here’s a link to the Washington Post with a video clip of the moment, including Alito’s response. Here’s Jack Tapper at ABC giving a historian’s perspective.
Talking Down
Someone told me I forgot to put a teleprompter in my last Obama cartoon. I’m making up for it in this one by putting the teleprompter in and leaving the president out.
The prez really did use a teleprompter in a 6th grade classroom. But he was speaking to the press pool, not the kids. Still… Here’s a link to the Daily Show.
