Dark days for political cartoonists

Anita Kunz has this problem with George W. Bush. Like, just how nasty can she get with the guy?

It's nothing personal. Well, maybe it's a little bit personal. The Toronto illustrator has been commissioned to "do" Bush by Mother Jones, the lefty American magazine that's shown little affection for Shrub over the years. The cover will go with "Mean politics," an article for the November issue by Molly Ivins, the funny and gnarly Texas columnist who was among the first to dub Dubya "Shrub."

From what Kunz knows about Ivins' piece, out on the stands by mid-October, it will deal with the Bush administration's rich-get-richer vision of social policy.

"The question is, does Bush understand how the average American lives?" says Kunz. "He only understands the life of the privileged."

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where even Feiffer is getting nervous. "...like the age of McCarthy again..."

Scary stuff, but what else is new in the days when we have books telling us McCarthy was really one of the good guys.

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