Cartoon #3 - Occupy Congress

1. By Rick McKee, for The Augusta Chronicle. 
2. Key Objects
• Main in suit:  He represents Congress.  While his goal is not to attain a government shutdown, he is more effective at doing so than the Occupy protesters.
• Raggedy man on the hill:  He wants to achieve various things with no common goal; this is very similar to Congress's approach when a government shutdown occurs.
3. Devices
• Caricature: Occupy protester has extremely long frayed hair, while the congressman has a neat bald head, with a very nice suit.
4. That a government shutdown almost occurred because Congress failed to appropriate the necessary funding.  Congress finally passed a spending bill to avert a government shutdown that would have occurred in a few hours.
5. Congress needs to get ahead of the game.  It has been continuously blowing off what really needs to be done by making only temporary fixes to problems.  It needs to start thinking in the long term, not in the short term.
6. The cartoonist is tired of the games that Congress has been playing.  He wants Congress to make a permanent funding fix for the government.