Ramirez: Trojan Donkey
posted at 10:55 am on August 21, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
The Trojans may have been wiped out, but they left us a very useful metaphor, didn’t they? Michael Ramirez, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for Investors Business Daily, practically gallops away with the Trojan Horse … or something more appropriate:
As with all Ramirez cartoons, there are a lot of themes running through this. On the surface, Ramirez highlights the deceptive nature of the public plan in ObamaCare, helpfully highlighted by Obama’s own allies over the past couple of years. But Ramirez speaks to more than just the health-care debate; the entire populist agenda of Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats is a Trojan horse for statism, whether it’s cap-and-trade, FOCA, Card Check, or any of the rest of the Democratic agenda for 2009-10. It’s all about breaching the defenses of liberty and having the government control our lives.
Ramirez has a terrific collection of his works: Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion, which covers the entire breadth of Ramirez’ career, and it gives a fascinating look at political history. Read my review here, and watch my interviews with Ramirez here and here. And don’t forget to check out the entire IBD site, while individual investors still exist.
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That wouldn’t be the first Trojan Donkey, either, especially after the jack*ss who just got elected by pretending to be a centrist.
teke184 on August 21, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Classic Ramirez…
Khun Joe on August 21, 2009 at 10:58 AM
I prefer to use the other Trojan analogy;
Government health care is the condom that tries to convince America it’s safe to get f*cked by a disease carrying leviathan.
BadgerHawk on August 21, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Not only that, but the “blue dogs” were “trojan donkeys” elected in conservative districts because they claimed to be conservative that were used to elect a radical leftist leadership of Pelosi and Reid.
They are already in huge trouble over voting for Porkulus, voting for Obamacare will certainly mean that a lot of them will get run out in 2010.
If we could get enough true conservative Republicans elected to the House in 2010, we can at least stop this crap. The senate will take longer, but I see it happening.
wildcat84 on August 21, 2009 at 10:59 AM
That is perfect -
izoneguy on August 21, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Don’t look a gift
horseass in the mouth.:)
Disturb the Universe on August 21, 2009 at 11:01 AM
OT: I have a suggestion for the HA gods. Format the blog to allow comments on the “Headlines” links.
pearson on August 21, 2009 at 11:02 AM
No, no, no. Ramirez has it wrong. The jackass is in the white house…
jbh45 on August 21, 2009 at 11:03 AM
You can comment on the headline threads. You may have to log in a second, though. I had to do that for a couple weeks right after they created the Headlines.
BadgerHawk on August 21, 2009 at 11:03 AM
See the number/balloon beside the headline? Click on it and it will take you to the comments.
The Onion has a great piece:
Congress Deadlocked Over How To Not Provide Health Care
John_R on August 21, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Who would have thought the Democrats were actually telling the truth, umm, ever? Try never.
kirkill on August 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM
They don’t even have to be Republicans, they can be proven conservatives and properly vetted before endorsement.
ExpressoBold on August 21, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Thanks Badger and John. All these months and I did not notice that!
pearson on August 21, 2009 at 11:07 AM
How do you say “that trojan jackass has a wittle wee wee” in Austrian?
Ris4victory on August 21, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Don’t feel bad. It took me a long time to discover that, too.
Disturb the Universe on August 21, 2009 at 11:08 AM
I wish the Donkeys would use more Trojans…Less Abortions and Less Donkeys.
Elizabetty on August 21, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Ramirez should have shown the masses shoving the Jackass over a cliff….
PatriotRider on August 21, 2009 at 11:09 AM
How many Trojan donkeys have there been since Ogabe was elected, including himself?
But of course there are still enough moron Trojans in America to run out through the main gates and drag the next one back in while saying, “This time it will be different”.
Bishop on August 21, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Too bad Barry’s parents didn’t have a Trojan…
Keef Overbite on August 21, 2009 at 11:10 AM
I love that the donkey is poorly constructed.
NickelAndDime on August 21, 2009 at 11:15 AM
I’ve been a fan of Ramirez since he was at the Memphis Commercial Appeal. He never disappoints.
kingsjester on August 21, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Amen.
zeebeach on August 21, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Excellent! But the Libs won’t even get this metaphor, they don’t study History.
Tony737 on August 21, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Come on, people. That trojan horse is full of Adults (TM-getalife) who are here to help you.
That, and a Bridge in Brooklyn, should complete your set. But you have to order now, because we can’t do this all day.
Yoop on August 21, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Why would they? Just a bunch of stuff about silly old white men.
jwp1964 on August 21, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Exactly, they don’t study it but they sure do rewrite it every chance they get.
larvcom on August 21, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Good one!
ladyingray on August 21, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Great cartoon! lol
becki51758 on August 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Sometimes Ramirez just nails it, as does this one.
And all he does is re-express the obvious! But I got a great chuckle with the “Nope, no government in here…” because that is EXACTLY the ruse Obama is using to create his socialist state of America. Check out the vast numbers of the army below the trojan donkey! That’s us!
Danzo on August 21, 2009 at 11:38 AM
The one bit of good news from this last election was that Obama had to run as a tax cutting, budget hawk moderate to win. And the Democrats controlling congress had to run against congress.
Looks like the populace has finally noticed they didn’t vote in a moderate for president, and oh yes, the Democrats were running the congress in 2006-8 which the voters were unhappy with.
18-1 on August 21, 2009 at 11:41 AM
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Light up the COOPERATIVE TROJAN HORSE outside the Congress front door–don’t bring it inside!
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John Bibb
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rocketman on August 21, 2009 at 11:45 AM
New ironic (actual) word of the day/month/year/current administration:
mulo.
According to the Real Academia Espagnola mulo has two meanings in Spanish. The first meaning is “mule” from Latin mulus. The second meaning of mulo is “a person characterized by strength and vigour”.
http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=mulo
For some reason the two definitions certainly don’t mesh well together nowadays, does it?
Kokonut on August 21, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Actually, I’ve always wondered why someone would want to use “Trojan” for a condom brand because of that vary same analogy, so I don’t really distinguish between the two.
Count to 10 on August 21, 2009 at 11:47 AM
When I was 11 I wanted to name my first dog ‘Trojan’. Mom said no. It took me about 3 years to realize why.
BadgerHawk on August 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Ramirez nails it, but this has been part and parcel of socialist practice going back to their earliest days.
Chaz on August 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Hey Ed,
Not too shabby for a UCI graduate, eh?
Zot!
VoyskaPVO on August 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Obamachilles sits wee-weeing in his tent.
Christien on August 21, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Let’s check in with Professor Gates for a definitive answer to that point.
onlineanalyst on August 21, 2009 at 12:41 PM
LOL, Trojan donkey
Speaking of the ass, read and weep: civil war?
The most divisive president ever. Lincoln did not sell out American citizenship to foreign interests, and usurp all the US private industry bought out by tax payers’ dollars before destroying all value to the dollar to prevent any turn-about purchase by private owners.
“Having come to associate politics with its perversion,” SOCIALISTS INSIST THEIR OWN POLITICS ARE PURE, ALWAYS WITHOUT SIN.
/Get real with the vocabulary. Abusers only hijack virtuous words for their associative public attraction. Socialism, progressive, then liberal, just like gay, are all perversions and deserve no repetition in perverted form that enables the acceptance of fallacy as the only option. Call a spade a spade. Marxists are not benevolent designers of society, nor of your life. The RNC finally got around to whispering that Democrats are Socialists. Well, Socialists are Marxists.
maverick muse on August 21, 2009 at 12:51 PM
He’ll call the donkey a racist.
maverick muse on August 21, 2009 at 12:52 PM
If they’re not Republicans then the Republican party will target them for discrediting.
aengus on August 21, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Progressivism (statism) is the Trojan donkey.
Hey, how about a Constitutional amemdment for limiting federal taxation and requiring balanced budgets? That might slow them down a little, if only we could swing it.
But then again, progressives don’t feel constrained by things like Constitutions, do they.
petefrt on August 21, 2009 at 1:29 PM
I think I see Barney Frank peeking out.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
Speakup on August 21, 2009 at 8:02 PM