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* Heard on the Hill: House Administration Chairwoman Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-Calif.) sends out a hilariously self-praising press release… Nancy Pelosi coins first non-dirty phrase to make it onto Urban Dictionary: “Marble Ceiling.” [Roll Call]
* Yeas and Nays: Thomas “Nasty” Nast first used the ass to represent the Democratic party on this week in 1870… “Accompanying Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen P. Hughes on her trip to China today is none other than figure skating champion Michelle Kwan” … Mark Steyn: “Muslim is the new gay.” [Examiner]
* Under the Dome: Two tobacco-chewing Senators defeated by fellow tobacco-chewers… Confused Freshman Rep. gets lost in Senate side looking for Nancy Pelosi’s office… Worst job in the Senate, presiding over the gavel, going to freshman. [The Hill]

Is the cartoon riot thing over yet? We don’t remember hearing about it this week at all. That’s always a good sign, right? Good work Hitch and Sully!

We do hope that episode ended, or fizzled out, or whatever. ‘Cause we don’t think people should be blowing up Danes, sure, but also because we want to go back to the world where no one gave a shit about cartoons. The world of, like two months ago. When editorial cartoonists, secure in their obscurity, could repeat the jokes they stole from 1950’s Herblock cartoons with crosshatching and textual labeling of strained metaphors straight outta vintage Thomas Nast.

We miss that innocent time. And so does our buddy the Comics Curmudgeon. CC’s been blogging about daily, non-political comics for a while now, so we asked him to take the impressive skills he’s developed as America’s Premier Comic Strip Mocker and train them on the political cartoonists of our nation’s newspapers. His analysis is after the jump.

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