{"id":3318,"date":"2019-10-04T10:55:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2019-10-04T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:55:30","slug":"blatant-executive-overreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3318","title":{"rendered":"Blatant Executive Overreach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"423\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JPA208_fixed.jpg\" alt=\"Blatant Executive Overreach\" class=\"wp-image-3319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JPA208_fixed.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JPA208_fixed-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This\n is a good example of an editorial cartoon that many will see as unfair.\n When Governor Whitmer used an extraordinary number of line-item vetoes \nto attempt to force the Republican-dominated legislation back into \nnegotiations on the budget, there were hypocrisies all around. Democrat \nleadership has been madly spinning stories one way and Republicans the \nother. I could have picked on either party. But for the purposes of \nmaking the most pointed cartoon, only one party has a member who is the \nPresident actively undermining his oath of office, and the other party \ndoes not. At least for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\n you should really never expect even-handedness from any editorial \ncartoonist. That is not our job and, frankly, being impartial can only \nlead to milquetoast cartoons. I only draw one cartoon a week, and even \nthough I declare no allegiance to any particular side, readers have \ntheir own thoughts about that (as well they should.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The solution? You should be reading <em>more<\/em>  editorial cartoons! Get a variety from several cartoonists. There are  plenty of places to find more, but if you&#8217;re looking for convenience,  there is a new email newsletter called <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yourcounterpoint.com\/\"><strong>Counterpoint<\/strong><\/a>. You can sign up to get several of the very best sent to your inbox a couple times a week. And it purposely designed to  provide a mix of political leanings and ideologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good example of an editorial cartoon that many will see as unfair. When Governor Whitmer used an extraordinary number of line-item vetoes to attempt to force the Republican-dominated legislation back into negotiations on the budget, there were hypocrisies all around. Democrat leadership has been madly spinning stories one way and Republicans the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrewheller-com","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3320,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/3320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}