Political reality checks

WikiLeaks, oil leaks, jobs forecasts, foreclosures, Chelsea Clinton, Lindsey Lohan — no shortage of grave subjects for the ink-under-our- nails crowd. But sometimes political cartoonists just stick to … politics! And the dog days of August aren’t too early to speculate about the dog-eat- dogfights of November. Phil Hands sees the GOP hanging ten and the Dems wiping out. Jack Ohman’s homespun double-entendre makes a real-(e)statement. And Dan Wasserman’s reworked campaign poster serves up a slice of practical realism instead of pie-in-the-sky idealism.

-- Joel Pett

Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky. His work also appears in USA Today.