Nine Years Ago Today....

...cartoonist Rob Davis and I launched an online cartoon series, The Dubya Chronicles, which ran until one year ago today and recorded in graphic format (later posts were also animated) the absolute disaster which was The. Worst. Presidency. Ever.

If you click on that link, you'll find your in the middle of a retrospective of the entire series which ran aground after a few months; it now serves as the home page until I find the energy and time to do something constructive with the site. The entire archives are available at a link below the artwork and comment if you want to pursue our efforts through the years.

On that first day, Inauguration Day 2001, we ran the two cartoons below as a double entry. The second cartoon has been rearranged and the first panel truncated in order to make it work in this venue.

I thought they would serve as an excellent reminder that, no matter how bad things look this morning, something even worse is---and was---possible. And I think you will see that we had those guys' number right from the gitgo.

Is Dick Cheney Being a Dick Because He's Insane or Senile or What?

Dunno the answer, but Tom Tomorrow skewers the ex-vice president from hell right good in this panel from this week's cartoon.

So much of what Dubya's (Not So) Secret Master has to say these days is so far out of touch with reality that only aged tea-bagger, anybody with a show on Fox News, Matt Drudge or an Unemployed Alaskan could take him seriously.

Granted that pretty much sums up the current GOP base, it still means that the dreaded Mainstream Liberal Press has to be really struggling to pretend to treat him seriously.

I do think they're doing a helluva job with that. Who knew they could be so clever.

Of course, there is an alternative explanation...