This notion that birth control pills are now “free,” as Romney claimed in his conference call to donors, needs to end. They are now simply covered by health insurance, which many of us pay fo...
https://jensorensen.com/2012/11/21/unclear-on-the-contraception/
I find that people who spew the platitude that “the candidates are the same” tend to be the ones who have the least to lose if the wrong candidate is elected. At risk of sounding melodramatic...
https://jensorensen.com/2012/10/31/this-weeks-cartoon-handy-candidate-comparison-chart/
I had a hard time sitting through that debate last week. Rising above the fray through aloof non-engagement does not work when you’re being pelted with dung on live national television. It took...
https://jensorensen.com/2012/10/10/this-weeks-cartoon-mr-obamas-wild-ride/
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of hearing smug Republicans toot their success horns while nagging the rest of us to work harder. It takes a lot of chutzpah to oppose anything that migh...
https://jensorensen.com/2012/09/26/this-weeks-cartoon-the-aristocratic-old-grandpa-state/
No, this one isn’t about Romney’s video fubars. But I think it makes an important point that is ignored by most media and many voters. Viewing the election as a contest between two people nam...
https://jensorensen.com/2012/09/19/this-weeks-cartoon-all-the-presidents-men/
Interesting questions have been raised about whether Mitt “retrocatively retired” from Bain so he could keep his wife’s health insurance coverage while she underwent treatment for MS. The R...
https://jensorensen.com/2012/07/18/this-weeks-cartoon-as-the-mitt-spins/
I was going to make a “bully pulpit” joke in this strip, but then I did a search and realized everyone on the internet had already made it. A cartoonist’s life is fraught with peril. Mitt h...
https://jensorensen.com/2012/05/16/this-weeks-cartoon-the-bully-rights-movement/
There is much fretting in Republican quarters about the lousiness of their presidential candidates. While it’s true that Romney and Santorum both have weird if not downright repulsive personali...
https://jensorensen.com/2012/02/29/this-weeks-cartoon-the-ultimate-republican-candidate/
I assume most people have heard about Mitt Romney’s dog-on-car incident, especially now that even Newt Gingrich is attacking him over it, but to recap briefly: back in the ’80s, Mitt stowed t...
https://jensorensen.com/2012/01/18/this-weeks-cartoon-romney-straps-worker-to-roof-of-campaign-bus/
Tagg Romney recently tweeted this: Har! Just a fun-lovin’, booty-stealin’ marauder! I’m sure these guys would get a real kick out of it: Above video via a Plum Line post about a conservativ...
So Mitt Romney has taken to giving speeches chock full o’ sound bites for the Tea Party, invoking Cold War paranoia and demonizing people who, god forbid, need to use the social safety net duri...
https://jensorensen.com/2011/12/28/this-weeks-cartoon-makin-it-with-mitt/