The Boy Detective always cracks me up.

This one had me laughing right out loud!

Nicely done, TT. Looking forward to next week.

...the Jews! I don't know exactly, but you can just bet they're responsible somehow!

Don't you know CLINTON is responsible for all things bad! St. Raygun's foresight preemptively stemmed the tide on Clinton's evildoing, which only became apparent after all the good things Shrub did, like torturing our freedoms - I mean "torturing FOR our freedoms." Now shut up and start blaming Obama for the collapse of Wall St.

Wow, Conservative Jones is looking frazzled in this one. This cartoon actually made me feel sorry for him a bit...well, sorry for kids whose parents are rabid Republicans, anyhow.

The last panel was a spoof on Joe Biden thinking FDR was POTUS when the stock market crashed.

You remember that big goof that Katie pretended not to notice. :)

This would all be so much funnier if it weren't lifted, verbatim, from conservative pundits. It would be so much easier to laugh at this cartoon if it were an exaggeration.

...those shiftless, eeeevil, thug black people(all 15% of the total US population of them, now.) for single-handedly causing the housing meltdown? What an innocent. Kid obviously hasn't been drinking nearly enough right-wing slime infusions...:P

The boy detective is starting to look an awful like like William Kristol.

Were Hitchcock still alive, he might use the detective/Kristol to do a third remake of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" entitled "The Man Who Was Always Wrong".

Wow. Brutal and accurate. Tom has obviously spent time researching the comment sections under articles linked by Drudge.

Ever since he started talking up Copernican theory, we've completely lost our moral center. Things have only gotten worse and worse since then until, well, you can see the mess we're in today. Thanks, Galileo! Jerk.

You are 3% points off

US Black Population stands at just under 12%

Per US Census

Your point is probably more ironic and funnier with the lower % anyway.

I blame the whole thing on the Designated Hitter Rule in the A.L.

..just gives the babbling boy detective an added emphasis as inspector idiot.

I completely agree, except for the fact that the wingnuts are already so over-the-top it's nearly impossible to exaggerate when starting from their ravings....

Oh no, what did they just post at Red State?

Damn!

It's creepy how spot on this carton mirrors recent Conseervative talking points. Clintion, Carter, FDR, James Polk - they're all in on it.

It isn't the terrorist fist-bump we should worry about, it's the secret Martin Van Buren handshake. It's all there, if you uncover your eyes!

This reminds me that the Repub's love to bring up the fact that as a young man who hadn't yet entered politics, Robert Byrd briefly joined the Ku Klux Klan. That was about 1945. But if you bring up George W. Bush's drunk-driving arrest decades later, then, "That was long in the past and nobody cares about it and besides, it never happened!"

That damned Grover Cleveland!

And what about the culpability of Franklin Pierce in all of this?

...The Prime Mover's the one who flicked that bit of space dust.

Fortunately, the devious machinations of the Cleveland/Clinton/Carter (different names for the same clone, I'll wager!) are offset by Republican presidents. Surely trickle-down was beginning to work, balancing the budget and earning a surplus - before Clinton tanked it and took credit for everything.

The economy right now? The REAL legacy of the Clinton monkeywrench. But nothing to fear - just think of all the good times ahead, once Bush's policies reverse the damage done. Too bad McCain couldn't forestall the next slump, due after Obama - the fiend - leaves office.

Carter did dig us quite a few holes, not the least of which was our mess with Iran. Of course, that every leader since Carter (Regan, Clinton, Bush et al)has continued his failed policies says more about the intractablness of politics than it does about any single given leader and the ammount of success, failue or change that can be laid at their individual feet.

If Carter had been a capable politician a great leader, and most of all a shrewd player of international politics we might be much further a head than we are right now.

Our hope today is that as the failed policies since Carter have brought us to our current situation, we finnally have such a wise, shrewd, and gifted leader.

Time will tell if he, like Regan is mearly a spouter of seemingly wise words, or an applier of wisdom to the world in which we live.

About the intractability of politics. I've often wondered why some of our national policies can't have expirartion dates on them, bringing them up for discussion of renewal. Such as our being mad at Iran for the embassy seizure 29 years ago. There is no rational reason for the half-century that we've spent pretending Castro's Cuba is an optical illusion, but it continues because even the presidents who thought it was stupid had too much other stuff on their plates. And it took Bill Clinton to finally deflate the U.S. Navy's strategic helium reserve for the Navy dirigible corps!

I love this series. I would love to read a full-on parody of boy detective comics featuring these characters plumbing the depths of right wing conspiracy nonsense.

...because after the first year, you won't be able to blame Bush and the Republicans anymore.

Regardless, it's not very inspiring to hear your President constantly saying "This isn't MY fault. I inherited this problem. I didn't do it!"

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, don't forget that Republicans AND Democrats all around are to blame for this mess.

...because after the first year, you won't be able to blame Bush and the Republicans anymore.

Illogical in the extreme. If it takes a long time to clean up someone's mess, that doesn't mean they didn't make the mess. It only means that they made a very big mess.

Regardless, it's not very inspiring to hear your President constantly saying "This isn't MY fault. I inherited this problem. I didn't do it!"

It isn't meant to be inspiring, it's meant to accurately describe the situation.

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, don't forget that Republicans AND Democrats all around are to blame for this mess.

Not really, the mess is largely the result of Republican policies that were motivated by inflexible, irrational ideology, crass short term political calculations (the turned out to be self-defeating in the long term), and corruption.