New York Republican George Santos became only the sixth member of Congress in history to be expelled by his colleagues after a critical ethics report accused him of converting campaign donations for his own use. Santos is charged but has not been convicted of any crimes, making his expulsion a bad precedent, he said. “To hell with this place,” he told CNN upon departing the Capitol.
Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen leads this week’s gallery with a depiction of Santos as a melting snowman with a long carrot nose, a reference to the former congressman’s numerous lies about his education, employment and heritage. Bill Bramhall tickets Santos for Sing Sing, a state prison in Ossining, New York. Jack Ohman draws all of Santos’s alter egos leaving Congress.
Cartoonists also remarked upon the death of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at age 100. Kissinger, the architect of U.S. foreign policy during the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations, leaves a complicated legacy, Bramhall notes. He helped establish U.S. diplomatic relations with China and negotiated an end to the Vietnam War (too late, his critics say). Ohman recalls when Nixon invited Kissinger to pray with him as the president prepared to resign over Watergate. Phil Hands sees Kissinger’s human rights record as cracks in his black-framed glasses. Michael Ramirez also refers to the glasses — drawing Kissinger’s eyeball as the globe.
Other news in this week’s gallery includes reactions to former President Donald Trump’s authoritarian pronouncements; the fall of the national Christmas tree as a metaphor for President Joe Biden’s troubles; a temporary cease-fire in Gaza; rising antisemitism; and tributes to the late First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
Cartoons were drawn by Jack Ohman, Nick Anderson, Bill Bramhall, Dana Summers, Drew Sheneman, Scott Stantis, Walt Handelsman, David Horsey, Phil Hands, Joel Pett and Joey Weatherford of Tribune Content Agency; and Mike Luckovich, Steve Breen…
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