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We all know the debate in Washington over budgets and Obamacare won t help Congress anemic approval ratings - 80 percent of Americans in the latest CBS News/New York Times Poll say the threat of a government shutdown, from either side, isn t an acceptable way to negotiate. But animosity toward Washington comes from frustrations deeper than unmet calls for compromise. Consider this week s events in the context of the latest Census report, just out last week, that showed Americans incomes and earnings have s
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Here is our weekly look at some of the editorial cartoons available on CBSNews -- which this week are on President Obama s address to Congress on Wednesday and the state of the health care debate in Washington.Tom Toles ArchiveTony Auth ArchiveChan Lowe ArchiveAnd for an animated take on the news, click here for the latest Mark Fiore animated cartoon, entitled Dogboy and Mr. Dan, which is about the controversy surrounding President Obama s speech to students earlier this week.For more, click here to visit our Puzzles Cartoons page. For more commentary from the left and the right, click here to visit our Opinion section. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d1abe616-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-d1abe616-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d1abe616-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Kevin Hechtkopf Kevin Hechtkopf is CBSNews s politics editor.
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