'Toontime: Political Follies

Two 'toons that sum up events in the past week, one significant the other not. The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after a long struggle with cancer puts the world's fourth largest exporter of oil politically adrift; while in the theatre of the absurd once known as the United States Senate, Repugnant colleagues thought Senator Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's nomination to CIA's top post a sophomoric stinker.

[credit: Kevin Siers, Charlotte Observer]

[credit: Jack Ohman, Sacramento Bee]
Wackydoodle sez, Quick boys, grab yer AR-15s!

Paul was upset that he did not get a satisfactory answer from Attorney 

General Holder on the question of whether the President could use a drone strike against a citizen on American soil. Apparently Rand Paul has not read his Constitution lately. If he did he would find in Article IV, Section 4 this little tidbit: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them...against domestic Violence."  Insurrection anyone?