And he'll violate the 3rd amendment, too, if either of those secret service guys wants to stay over.

the wing-nuts are gonna hate this one. You could predict commander codpiece showing up as "King George", but the juxtaposition of the ideals under which the country was formed and what the authoritarian cultists have done is concisely shown here.

Think Billo will get permission to put this in his next book for kids?

And if the executive did not comply congress could impeach him .... (where is the frame where the modern congress continues to lie down and let the king reign?)

...is astounding.

I have to wonder what kind of wunderkinds the American school system is producing when the knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, slope-browed neanderthals who both write for and draw for this publication are considered "cogniscenti."

Dear artist,

Please get back to me when you have a basic, elementary school level of understanding about American government.

Dear letter writers,

Educate yourselves and quit reacting to hyperbole.

An instant classic!

"Dear artist,

Please get back to me when you have a basic, elementary school level of understanding about American government."

Do you have a substantive comment about this cartoon? Some reason that you are claiming better understanding of the structure of American governance than the artist? Or do you just like making vague insults?

The Constitution *was damned well designed to prevent the sorts of abuses that this very President is committing*. You don't appear to have any specific refutation: why expose your ignorance in front of the whole world?

TR is right. This cartoon gets King George all wrong! He and his predecessors had to comply with the principle of habeas corpus for a very long time (its roots in the common law going back to at least the 12th century, codified legislatively in the 17th). Individual exceptions had to be debated and enacted by the legislature, even in the case of foreign enemies.

It's only President George and his inventive sub-president Cheney who've thrown that out the window.

Salon cartoonists must stop with the facile damning of George III!

--typed "TR", should have typed "RE".

TR [sic] is right. This cartoon gets King George all wrong! He and his predecessors had to comply with the principle of habeas corpus for a very long time (its roots in the common law going back to at least the 12th century, codified legislatively in the 17th). Individual exceptions had to be debated and enacted by the legislature, even in the case of foreign enemies.

It's only President George and his inventive sub-president Cheney who've thrown that out the window.

So I guess you BOTH missed the clue that the patriots were talking about King George the codpiece, right?

Now you know why I look forward towards Thursdays.

Keith Knight and Carol Lay are both great, but it was Tom the Dancing Bug that got me to subscribe to Salon.

Good, but it needs another panel with a smirking Dick Cheney overseeing the waterboarding and sodomizing of the Founding Fathers. That would make it perfect.

Also, unbelievably frightening. For the same reason.

I found myself reading the Declaration of Independence last week and was asking myself how many of the indictments against the King could be applied to Dubya.

Funny how people call Bush stupid, yet he is still in power. Makes me wonder who the stupid people are.

And he's not in power (that would be Cheney).

And I don't know that the American people are stupid because they let democracy be overthrown, so much as the people who overthrew it had the patience (and evil) to carry out a covert plan decades in the making. Even smart people can be betrayed.

Through great effort I was choosing to read the earlier letter generously.

Or snidely. Take your pick.

Note the modern globe in the background of panel 1!