This comic is a kind of companion piece to "The Vicious Circle of Stupidity" from a few months ago. As you may know, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has been saying that new financial industry reforms designed to prevent bank bailouts will lead to more bank bailouts. This whopper, devised by political marketeer Frank Luntz, allows him to appear to stand up to Wall Street while actually protecting Wall Street. I felt that this deserved a cartoon, yet I can't bring myself to draw yet another screed against a lying Republican. Just typing that sentence feels like a cliché. The only way I could deal with it was to make the issue a whole lot more meta.

So that is McConnell in the third panel. He has always looked to me like a hairless mole that just emerged from a hole in the ground, blinking blindly in the sunlight. This makes him sort of fun to draw.

This morning, I got a kick out of some of the comments by wingnuts on Slowpoke's Gocomics page. I present them here for your reading pleasure.

pschearer: “Gross oversimplification” is what some people say to attack principle.

E=mc^2? Gross oversimplification! Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Gross oversimplification!

So contrary to the experience of nation after nation, we are to believe that Big Government is NOT a danger to freedom? Yeah, just suck down that socialist Kool-Aid.

Lewreader: That Constitution with its protections against big government is just an out-dated piece of paper. Those 10 Commandments are just an outdated slab of stone. Who wants principles when the government will send us checks?.

MisngNOLA: P6 is a perfect rendition of the entire comic.

Whoa, I had no idea so much meaning could be derived from a drawing of a bloated King Obama sitting on an eagle! The Constitution! The Ten Commandments! E=mc²! That is the effing theory of relativity, my friends. I guess the concept of GOVERNMENT = BAD really does explain it all.