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May 31, 2006
Killjoy was Here
Look out, folks! It's a tsunami of trial lawyers bringing a hurricane of lawsuits, flooding the land with the earthquake from their ambulance-chasing feet. If we don't stop them, they will holocaust tax payers billions of dollars. Tort reform is the only answer to the immigration debate.
Nice use of an asterisk by Stantis today. He reminds me of an equally-as-asinine Bruce Tinsley of Mallard Fillmore fame, who uses asterisks all the time to make points and provide backup for his dumbass, right-wing, mostly made-up claims.
I'm not saying Stantis made up the story about Mexico threatening to sue the U.S. for protecting its borders. It seems to pass a cursory Google News search. All I'm saying is that if Stantis is now borrowing from Tinsley he has hit rock bottom...possibly after falling into the crack in the earth caused by the earthquake from the trial lawyers.
Comments
I don't know...I think it's useful to use asterix in political cartoons, especially things that's hard to believe like this, but it's true, like this.
Now, if only Carl Moore's "State of the Union"*, another right wing strip, uses them...
* - www.comics.com/creators/union**
** - Ironic, don't you think?
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at May 31, 2006 09:39 AM
Mexico isn't suing so much that the U.S. is protecting its borders, but rather that the U.S. is talking about military force, because there is a long series of treaties between Mexico and the United States (and the United States and Canada) that govern such things. The basic concept is that if the other nation is not your enemy, you do not use military force at the border.
That's a tough concept to include in a cartoon, though, and a thougher one for a guy like Stantis to grasp.
Posted by: Annie at May 31, 2006 10:54 AM
