Toon: He's perfect!

[Playinghardball]

[hlthe2b]

1. Yeah... for many hard core RWers, this may well endear him to them more...

Shitting on targeted Dems--even when it results in delayed response to emergencies (and death)--hardly seems like something that would enrage too many hard core RW partisans.

[jeff47]

4. Except history runs further backwards.

The picture of Christie hugging Obama dooms him to that same constituency.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Authoritarians love their 'strong leaders'...

And they're willing to put up with assholes, as long as they're 'their' assholes. They never imagine that they'd be treated the same, although anybody with any real sense knows that they will, eventually.

[el_bryanto]

3. I initially thought about that - but then thought about GWB

GWB was a different kind of bully, but he was clearly a bully. The swagger, the clear disdain for everybody who wasn't just like him - it does kind of stand out.

Bryant

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Bennett is the strongest political cartoonist drawing now.

He nails it so succinctly and clearly so many times and has excellent draftsmanship.

[trof]

6. I started following him when he was at the Christian Science Monitor. He's terrif.

[SCVDem]

7. These days

Nixon never would have resigned.

The articles of impeachment would have been fillibustered.