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The cartoonist drew a wheelchair user on a chairlift ramp going up the Senate-side Capitol steps with three people using walkers. Above the columns were the words, “Senate Assisted Legislating Facility.” The reference is about the aging Senate, a matter in the news because of health issues surrounding Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who is 90, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky who is 81. Age and the ability to serve is also part of the presidential campaign.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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Where does she see a wheelchair to be offended? There is an elderly person in a stair lift, used by the senior citizens who cannot walk up stairs. Sorry Tammy, move on with your “I’m offended” card, this isn’t about you.
High function retard and constitutional illiterate Duckworth doesn’t understand that the whole point of political cartoons is to offend and provoke.
Tammy is deeply offended! Well guess what Tammy, the rest of us are deeply offended too. We’re offended that the US Senate and House are ruled by people who can’t string two words together without drooling on themselves. And don’t get me started on the Executive Office!
Tammy Duckworthless once again acting as ombudsman for the Washington Political Class. This time, Duckworthless attempts to guilt the awakened (as opposed to the terminally asleep woke) into ignoring the obvious issues with our aging political class that, frankly, should have found private sector employment decades ago if they had any skills other than grifting. I am having none of this. Does not wanting a person with Down’s Syndrome at the controls of the airliner they happen to be riding in make a person ableist? No. It’s common sense, something that Duckworthless has little of as the Democrat swamp creature… Read more »
The cartoon is the truth. A bunch of old crooks running the country. Trump and Biden are both old farts, shameful that is all we have to run for President.
The National Lampoon should still be around; I would like to see what they could produce.