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Editorial Cartoons by Nate Beeler
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Take a (Tax) Hike?
 A special color cartoon for the start of the Virginia General Assembly's special session! |
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Crude Cure
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ANWR
 Time and time again, I've gone over this issue in my own mind, with my editor and with others whose opinions I value, and I still think its irresponsible for government to encourage more domestic drilling without first setting in place a long-term, comprehensive energy policy. Opening up ANWR and allowing off-shore drilling are only stopgap measures that delay making the hard decisions that will truly make us energy independent. All the Republicans -- and the Democrats, frankly -- are offering are weak substitutes for sound policy on an issue of national and economic security. |
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SUV Nostalgia
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 I had high ambitions for this cartoon that ultimately got tempered due to deadline pressures and equipment snafu. It was a much funnier cartoon (I thought) earlier in the day before my editor nixed the caption, "Uh oh ... I've gone from one gas crisis to another!" Alas, 'twas a bit too crass. I also ended up running out of the regular paper I use, so I had to dip in to my backup stash, which has a completely different texture. Oh well. One lucky thing about newspapering is that you get to move on to a blank piece of paper each day. |
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Cash Cow Put Out to Pasture
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 GM is closing four plants while it transitions from producing gas-guzzlers to more fuel-efficient vehicles. It's a good example of how consumer -- not government -- demands can drive change. It's about time U.S. automakers ditched their stagnating business strategies and wholeheartedly embraced innovation. |
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Price of Oil
 I struggled through brush issues on this one -- the bristles seemed to have minds of their own -- and I had to rush it at the end. Nevertheless, I think the idea's solid. I had another cartoon idea specifically about the checked bag fee that I came oh-so-close to picking over this one. I'm hoping I can use it next week. |
Kaine Unable
 For more on Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine's plan to raise taxes to pay for transportation fixes, read The Examiner's illuminating editorial. |
Hillary's Math
 I noticed Hillary Clinton is still having trouble with her basic mathematics skills, so I drew this cartoon. Probably my favorite part is the "A+B=ABBA" written on the chalkboard. It's that kind of quirky detail in other cartoonists' work that often makes me laugh out loud. But, of course, I'm a cartooning geek. |
John McBrain
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 Today's cartoon gave me the chance to give my caricature muscles a good work out. Call it cartoon calisthenics. I haven't drawn John McCain all that much, even though his turkey neck is manna from heaven to cartoonists. On the gas tax issue, I was working the math out in my head ... the federal gas tax is 18.4 cents ... if the tax is suspended and I fill up my car with 10 gallons of gas, I will have saved $1.84. What a deal, huh? |
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Night of the Living Dulles Rail
 As soon as I read the news about the FTA reversing course on the Dulles Metrorail extension, the image of a re-animated corpse popped into my head. The officials and contractors backing the multibillion-dollar transit project have to be practicing necromancy! There's no other explanation. |
Nate Beeler
Editorial cartoons and how they are created, by Nate Beeler, cartoonist for The Washington Examiner. Email Nate at nbeeler@dcexaminer.com.
Editorial cartoons and how they are created, by Nate Beeler, cartoonist for The Washington Examiner. Email Nate at nbeeler@dcexaminer.com.
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