comment: >
  
  Brian McFadden -Speaker of the House alternates
context: Why? >
  
  Learn to swim. >
  
  Fret for your figure and
  Fret for your latte and >
  
  Fret for your lawsuit and
  Fret for your hairpiece and >
  
  Rob Rogers:
  Governing
  Sports
  GOP Leadership >
  
  I think I missed the relevance of the Sports cartoon.  I don't rule out my own dim wits for this. >
  
  Probably has to do with the NFL football player that almost died on the field Monday night. That's my guess. >
  
  Okay.  I looked for a political angle.  I guess nowadays, everything is. >
  
  Jen Sorensen
  Debate to nowhere >
  
  Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune
  
  Locked Up
  
  Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune
  
  Game of Clowns >
  
  Game of Clowns will inspire me today.  What a legacy he’ll have. >
  
  As if he didn’t have a Stellar Enough Legacy beforehand… >
  
  Dave Rowe:
  American GOPic
  McCarthy Crossing the Alps
  Merry Ceasefire >
  
  Crossing the Alps is the best auto-boofing pachyderm I've ever seen. Amazing arts of visualization. >
  
  Excellent nod to David, as well: Napoleon Crossing the Alps. Rowe never disappoints. >
  
  Lisa Benson, Chattanooga Times Free Press
  
  Speaker Vote
  
  Clay Bennet, Chattanooga Times Free Press
  
  The Receipt >
  
  Goddamn Speaker Vote is hilarious >
  
  Pedro X. Molina:
  January 6th
  The snake handler
  At the door >
  
  Could someone interpret Molina's Benedict for me? >
  
  Might have something to do with all the Nazi war criminals he helped flee to Argentina and Brazil. 
  Just because the pope grants you absolution doesn't mean you don't pay for your crimes, even if it happens to be ostracization in heaven. >
  
  Who was the pope back then anyway? >
  
  R.J. Matson:
  Within reach
  Santos Baby New Year
  McCarthy Baby New Year >
  
  Too much for a newspaper to be reaching up his own sphincter first? >
  
  Michael Ramirez:
  From the dimwits...
  Making sausage
  At the circus >
  
  Damn making sausage is disturbing >
  
  Michael de Adder, The Washington Post:
  McCarthyism in 2023
  Sow Chaos, Rinse, Repeat
  Out of Order >
  
  Bonus de Adder:
  Putin's Bedtime Story
  Talking the Walk >
  
  Nick Anderson, Counterpoint: 
  Now Accepting Applications
  Kevin McCarthy
  Nancy and Kevin >
  
  John Deering, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
  As If...
  It's Just a Flesh Wound!
  Consensus >
  
  Always gonna upvote a Holy Grail reference >
  
  David Whamond:
  Vegas odds
  Cowardly Kevin >
  
  My money is always on Lettuce. >
  
  Barry Deutsch - Might As Well Face It, We’re Addicted To Fear >
  
  Mike Luckovich:
  The plan
  Endorsement >
  
  Another Luckovich:
  Loser's Loser >
  
  Clay Jones:
  Punxsutawney Gaetz
  Tossers for Putin
  Cryptic New Year >
  
  Dave Kellett, Sheldon (which is almost never political)
  
  Reduce, reuse, recycle the same old lines
  
  See also this NPR article from 2020 or this 2022 episode of Short Wave. >
  
  Both those articles links are the same >
  
  
  Both those articles links are the same
  
  Oops, so they were. Fixed. Thanks! >
  
  Jeff Danziger - Shooting an elephant
  Playing Chicken >
  
  Pia Guerra -Incitement under the sea >
  
  That one's not coming up for me. >
  
  Now it should go to the right one >
  
  Ann Telnaes:
  Kevin McCarthy finally achieves his greatest desire
  Matt Gaetz votes for Donald Trump for House speaker
  Republicans eat their own (animated gif) >
  
  
  Matt Gaetz votes for Donald Trump for House speaker
  
  They should have named that cartoon "Fellas" >
  
  Peter Gut NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
  Trump strikes back
  Great Wall