Political Cartoon #1

1.  This political cartoon was drawn by John Darkow.
2.  The main object is of course the gigantic, fat superman, meant to represent the supercommittee assigned to trying to find a solution to our debt problems.  Then there's the small telephone booth which represents the country's deficit and the debt that we owe, whihc is constricting the supercommittee and not letting them get out of this situation.  Then there's the newspaper box next to the phone booth that declares an epic fail, representing the failure of the supercommittee to produce a solution.  There's also the moon in the background, symbolizing the end of the day, and the end of the time period allotted to the supercommittee to come up with a solution to the problem.
3.  The cartoon uses ridicule and humor, because it mocks the 'supercommittee' by making it this fat, dressed up character, that is stuck in an embarassing situation of not being able to get out of the telephone booth.
4.  The event that the cartoon deals with is the supercommittee that has been assigned the task of finding a way to make cuts or somehow raise money to get rid of some of this debt that we have, and the upcoming deadline of that committee, and their failure to actually come up with a solution.
5.  The cartoon is saying that the supercommittee is unable to budge because it's trapped by the federal deficit.  No one knows what to do with it, and there's no way to escape it, so the committee is trapped, and they've come up with no solution of how to get past the federal deficit.  The cartoon demonstrates that the supercommittee just wants to get out of the situation their in, and they want to depend on others (911) to help them do so.  It also shows the public's thinking that the supercommittee is a failure because of what the newspaper says.
6.  The cartoonist thinks that the supercommittee is embarassing and foolish, and hasn't gotten anything done really, because they're trapped in by the deficit, and that they're simply looking for a way out of it at this point, when the deadline of their committee is closing in.  The cartoonist thinks that the supercommittee was a gigantic failure.