Three homers

Familiarity breeds contempt, so cartoonists have a home-field advantage when we home in on subjects close to home. You can wager your credit-default swaps that nobody has Mitt Romney nailed like Boston’s Dan Wasserman. The Chicago gun-rights statute made an easy target for the Tribune’s Scott Stantis. And only a California cartoonist like Sacramento’s Rex Babin could draw on the widespread animosity about Anthem Blue Cross. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to pay homage to a hometown hero. Surely I can hit a home run off of the one-man filibuster, Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning.

-- Joel Pett

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