Pelosi Impeachment Procession
House Speaker Pelosi dispatched a procession to the Senate to deliver a 1,426 word leather-bound document containing articles of impeachment. The Speaker and her acolytes hope to frogmarch President Trump out of the White House.
But, as The Washington Post reports:
For all the pageantry, both Johnson and Clinton’s impeachments ended in acquittal. Trump’s probably will too…
Best of Bok 2019
Here are some of the cartoons I liked best from last year:
Trump Made his Move
“Mr. Trump has often seemed a president playing checkers while America’s adversaries play chess. He is not given to nuanced strategic concepts or long-range plans.” That’s how WSJ’s Holman Jenkins sees it.
But this time maybe he was a little nuanced, not responding while the Iranians made their moves. Or maybe he was napping, since he only sleeps four hour a night. Anyway, Iran’s proxies moved on oil tankers, bombed oil fields and shot down a U.S. drone. And Trump did nothing. Until they fired rockets at an American base, killing a contractor, and set fire to the American Embassy. Then Trump made his move, executing the evil genius General Soleimani Rocket Man style with a missile.
Long Range Plans
And now it’s not just all Death to America anymore. “His demise will not stop his mission,” said Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei, “But the criminals who have the blood of General Soleimani and other martyrs of the attack on their hands must await a tough revenge.”
Standard Christmas Gift Return Cartoon
This is the time of the year cartoonists like to head over to the gift return department. Just draw a dissatisfied customer returning some unwanted political gift and presto, it’s back to the holiday schnapps.
My offering this year concerns Nancy Pelosi’s gifts of Christmas present and Christmas past.
The House impeached President Trump just in time for Christmas 2019. Ten years ago The Senate rushed Obamacare through on Christmas Eve. Speaker Pelosi said they had to pass the bill to find out what’s in it. But they’re still not sure.
In 2012The Supreme Court upheld The Affordable Care Act by calling the individual mandate to buy insurance a tax. But in 2017 Congress reduced the mandate to zero. So last month an appeals court ruled that if there’s no revenue there’s no tax, and killed the mandate. Then the court sent the case back to a judge in Texas who says with no mandate there can be no Obamacare. Got that?
Cheers!
New Year’s Coach Drop
It’s that magical time of year when Cleveland Browns fans count down the dropping of the ball on the head of their football coach. So, out with Head Coach Freddie Kitchens and in with the new.
Here’s what Jason Gay had to say in this morning’s WSJ:
Consider the freshly dismissed Freddie Kitchens. Just a few hours ago, Freddie had to spend a lot of time worrying about the Cleveland Browns. Now he doesn’t have to worry about the Cleveland Browns ever again. Right there, that’s a life upgrade.
And he added:
In addition to Kitchens in Cleveland, the Giants parted ways with Pat Shurmur after two seasons.
The Browns parted ways with Shurmur in 2012.
Oops, the big ball just dropped on GM John Dorsey too. He’s the guy who hired Freddie as head coach.
