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Policy

Friday Funnies

ObamaCare's first patient

Henry Payne | 3.26.2010 7:00 AM

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  1. Suki   15 years ago

    Good Morning reason!

  2. Fist of Etiquette   15 years ago

    He should watch where he's going.

    1. Suki   15 years ago

      Hi FoE! Where's Undermench?

      1. Untermensch   15 years ago

        I'm late this morning. But it seems you didn't know how to sneak in so early today?

        1. Suki   15 years ago

          Sorry for spelling your name wrong 🙁

          You are correct, I didn't make it in until 5:19, LOL.

  3. smartass sob   15 years ago

    Hm. This one is actually clever!

  4. Jim Clyburn   15 years ago

    That's hurtful and racist! Plus Henry Payne faxed me a cartoon of a noose. Hey, look, a squirrel! It just spit on me and it's wearing a swastika and holding a tea party sign! Look out, it's got a gun!

    1. ed   15 years ago

      Good thing that squirrel can't talk.

      1. Jim Clyburn   15 years ago

        I can read lips and it was clearly mouthing the N-word.

        1. ed   15 years ago

          He probably had a nut stuck in his teeth.

          1. Barney Frank   15 years ago

            That's not as easy as it sounds, ed.

            1. ed   15 years ago

              Barney, you promised to let me try.

              1. Art-P.O.G.   15 years ago

                Should have said he "faxed you a picture of a moose". Anyway, well done by Payne.

    2. Rimfax   15 years ago

      ...must get noose and squirrel!

    3. g.whillikers   15 years ago

      What is that slouchy pose he's affecting? My God, it's a gangsta lean!

  5. Fatty Bolger   15 years ago

    It's even better if you assume he was driving backwards.

    1. $   15 years ago

      He would have to be, would he not?

      1. rctl   15 years ago

        I knew it. Male driver;-)

        1. bleek obummer   15 years ago

          Always the observant one there rctl.

          1. rctl   15 years ago

            and observed:-)

            1. bleek obummer   15 years ago

              Seems you and the $ have a running feud. Watch out, the ? will be after you next.

              1. rctl   15 years ago

                I like the challenge and I'm sure $ is having a little fun too. The the ?, +, #, will have to wait. I can only make one boy cry at a time

                1. bleek obummer   15 years ago

                  That's awfully nice of you.

  6. Chinny Chin Chin   15 years ago

    not bad. I give it a meh+

  7. SugarFree   15 years ago

    If you look just at the portion cropped to for the front page, it looks like Obama is blissfully humping a PS3.

    1. BakedPenguin   15 years ago

      GM & Chrysler just started making Mario Karts.

  8. Tim   15 years ago

    Behold: The Foreskin House

    http://www.wptz.com/news/22958272/detail.html

  9. yonemoto   15 years ago

    it would have been funnier if public opinon didn't rise after passage of the bill.

    1. sage   15 years ago

      Heh. Sort of like how Castro would always get 99% of the vote to be reelected, huh?

    2. salsus aut suavis   15 years ago

      Who knew HCR would be so much rock hard fun?

    3. Isaac Bartram   15 years ago

      It all depends.

      The public opinion that wants someone to pay its medical bills has always wanted this. The public opinion that has to pay higher taxes and fees not so much.

      It's not really free stuff if you have to pay for it, is it?

      1. sage   15 years ago

        You won't believe how much that free shit is going to cost you.

    4. $   15 years ago

      Generally, you sell the need for a bill, then you pass it.

    5. Enough About Palin   15 years ago

      Quinnapiac (sp?) said his popularity dropped fro 46%-45%.

    6. Fatty Bolger   15 years ago

      55% want immediate repeal of the bill. You fail.

  10. samuel   15 years ago

    just clever and fun 😀

  11. Xeones   15 years ago

    it would have been funnier if public opinon didn't rise after passage of the bill.

    But look at the cartoon -- public opinion, mashed to the wheel, IS rising!

    Then it will go back down and get flattened again.

  12. Comrade Zero   15 years ago

    Remember in November! should be the slogan for any non-incumbent this year

    1. victory for vexed voters   15 years ago

      Remember, remember the 5th of November? Sounds great.

  13. anarch   15 years ago

    Sorry, the first victim is justice.

  14. P Brooks   15 years ago

    The steamroller should have a GMC logo. And where's his (O's) hard hat? And why weren't there three dozen Teamsters on "safety patrol" duty, to prevent this sort of tragedy?

  15. Brad Potts   15 years ago

    Holy Crap! A good cartoon!

    When did Mr. Payne get a wit transplant?

    1. God   15 years ago

      He couldn't afford it till HCR.

      1. Art-P.O.G.   15 years ago

        Nice, but I've said it before. Joke tellin' in regular installments is a hit or miss prospect. At least the drawings are always good.

  16. heller   15 years ago

    A Friday Funny that's actually funny?

  17. zeph   15 years ago

    Both hilarious and beautifully well-drawn, as always.

    Heh. Heh. Heh. Heh. /snort

  18. Tater Salad   15 years ago

    .........and with "Cap & Tax":

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  20. abercrombie milano   15 years ago

    My only point is that if you take the Bible straight, as I'm sure many of Reasons readers do, you will see a lot of the Old Testament stuff as absolutely insane. Even some cursory knowledge of Hebrew and doing some mathematics and logic will tell you that you really won't get the full deal by just doing regular skill english reading for those books. In other words, there's more to the books of the Bible than most will ever grasp. I'm not concerned that Mr. Crumb will go to hell or anything crazy like that! It's just that he, like many types of religionists, seems to take it literally, take it straight...the Bible's books were not written by straight laced divinity students in 3 piece suits who white wash religious beliefs as if God made them with clothes on...the Bible's books were written by people with very different mindsets...in order to really get the Books of the Bible, you have to cultivate such a mindset, it's literally a labyrinth, that's no joke.

  21. abercrombie and fitch uk   15 years ago

    "The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one."

  22. abercrombie fitch uk   15 years ago

    Well said. Tucker is despicable, Crossfire became despicable (despite the presence of supposed "heavyweights" like Novack and Carville), and Jon Stewart is a comedian who has never proclaimed himself to be anything else. Just because certain people here don't understand how satire works doesn't change that fact. The fact that The Daily Show has gained some cultural traction doesn't change that.

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