{"id":3346,"date":"2019-11-15T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T14:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:40:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:40:06","slug":"i-elected-you-to-do-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3346","title":{"rendered":"I Elected You to Do Your Job!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/JPA214.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3347\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/JPA214.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/JPA214-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Click the button to buy a print:<br><div class='wpecpp-container wpecpp-align-left'><form class='wpecpp-form wpecpp-form-disabled' id='radbd4dab1d29ef5bf097a950ce082eba' action='#' method='post'>        <script\n            src='https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/sdk\/js?client-id=Advx1wc_4Se6ICsYnMXTqWntyS0F1VdRHIeWnT2Qgv0nFi6sD86KEM9DSxcG79rq_weHqfs1uClL1xDy&merchant-id=NRDNW2GXFXSWQ&currency=USD&intent=capture&components=buttons,funding-eligibility&locale=en_US'\n            data-partner-attribution-id='WPPlugin_STP_CP'\n\t\t            ><\/script>\n        <style>\n            .wpecpp-paypal-button-container > *,\n            .wpecpp-paypal-hosted-fields-container .wpecpp-paypal-btn {\n                max-width: 300px;\n            }\n            .wpecpp-paypal-hosted-fields-container .wpecpp-paypal-btn {\n                height: 40px;\n            }\n        <\/style>\n        <script>\n            const wpecppPaypalFunding = [\"paypal\"];\n        <\/script>\n    \n    <!-- Buttons container -->\n    <div id='wpecpp-paypal-button-container-radbd4dab1d29ef5bf097a950ce082eba' class='wpecpp-paypal-button-container wpecpp-vertical'><\/div>\n\n\t\n    <div id='wpecpp-paypal-message-radbd4dab1d29ef5bf097a950ce082eba' class='wpecpp-payment-message'><\/div>\n\n    <script>\n        const message_radbd4dab1d29ef5bf097a950ce082eba = document.getElementById('wpecpp-paypal-message-radbd4dab1d29ef5bf097a950ce082eba');\n        if ( typeof paypal === 'undefined' ) {\n            message_radbd4dab1d29ef5bf097a950ce082eba.innerHTML = '<span class=\"payment-error\">An error occurred while connecting PayPal SDK. 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By the time this cartoon is published, maybe Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and Governor Gretchen Whitmer will have worked out the state budget for 2020. But I doubt it. For the very reasons why the budget was not really done on the October 1st due date: Political posturing has priority over actual work. The pollsters, the advisors, the party insiders are making the decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s not be naive \u2014 these folks have always been part of the process. It&#8217;s politics, after all, right? And it&#8217;s not necessarily dirty politics. Partisans gonna partisan. They are going to advocate hard for their sides and they won&#8217;t have any problem stepping over (or even slowing down for) lines that divide civility from zealotry. It&#8217;s just that, ideally, the shouldn&#8217;t be in charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And over the past decade, they have not only been put in charge, they&#8217;ve been supercharged. It&#8217;s been a deeply cynical, highly orchestrated national phenomenon, and Michigan is taking cues. Party over country. Bias over law. Campaigning over legislating. Control over constitution. Special interests over general good. And&nbsp;without exception, the end justifying the means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think there is a term for this. But my suggestion is that henceforth we refer to it as&nbsp;<em>McConnellism<\/em>. What do you think? Credit where credit is due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click the button to buy a print: Who knows? By the time this cartoon is published, maybe Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and Governor Gretchen Whitmer will have worked out the state budget for 2020. But I doubt it. 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