Cartoons for 2/24-3/3

"A Mere Pest" 2/25

• These words are used to describe this cartoon to convey the sequester as a small problem, or "pest," but the government is portraying it as a huge upset.
• The sequester is represented as a bumble be, while the president and Uncle Sam are approaching in a 16-wheeler, representing government spending. I think the artist means that there is a whole of spending going on, and sequester causing spending cuts really isn't that big, no matter how bad the government makes it seem.
• A truck, symbolizing government spending, driving towards a bee, representing sequestration.
• There is no clear ideological stance in this article. It just seems to be about the current government.
• This cartoon relates to the current sequestration that is blowing up the news. We didn't talk much about the sequester but, we talked about government spending and how there's a gender gap regarding what that spending should be on.
• This cartoon is satirical because this sequester has been the only thing in the news and on television, making it seem like a crisis, but here the budget cuts are portrayed as a "mere" bumble bee compared to the spending.

"Political Weaponry" 3/1

• This title is used for the cartoon to compare the continuous blame of the sequester to actual weapons.This conveys the danger of the "blame game" in politics.
• The sequester is represented as a Swiss army knife, and all the blame, along with other weapons are its attachments. This shows how the sequester is being blamed on so many different people/things.
• The message is to portray how different people are blaming the sequester on different things for their own reasons.
• This cartoon relates to the current government sequester. Our class didn't talk much about the sequester, but we did talk about how different political groups may think there is too much spending on things they don't necessarily favor, causing all the blame.
• This cartoon is satirical because all the blame is being portrayed as real political "weapons."