This wraps up a whole year of sharing rejects by the month rather than picking 30 or so to share at the end of the year. I didn’t keep up with the schedule as well as I would have liked, but overall I much prefer this format. You get to see the rejects while they’re still relatively timely and you get to see about four times as many. Be sure to check the links at the bottom of this post to check out the rejects from throughout 2009.

Thanks for another year of visiting this blog. To show my appreciation, I will give you an extra reject that nobody but me found funny.

11. I don’t know if the joke here is too subtle or if it’s just not funny, but this cartoon still cracks me up.

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#1: from December 25, 2006:

Merry Christmas!

from the Lincoln Journal Star

UPDATE: I was late posting this to the site and completely forgot to give credit to reader Jeff Beaty for suggesting this idea. Thanks, Jeff!

#2: from December 9, 2007:

#3: from December 14, 2006:

#4: from December 5, 2005:

You go sticking a big holiday in a month and I come up with fewer cartoon ideas. That’s just how it works.

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All this week, it’s a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Cartoon Past.

#5: from December 7, 2006:

from the Lincoln Journal Star

All of a sudden, Ben Nelson’s saying that even if his abortion demands are met, he’s got a problem with the Medicaid expansion, parroting Governor Heineman’s claim that it must be shot down because it’s an “unfunded mandate.” Alec MacGillis of the Washington Post did a little fact-checking, comparing Nelson’s claims to the actual legislation, and demonstrated how shallow these concerns are (not that this would surprise anyone at this point).

Matthew Yglesias gets to the significant point, though:

Let me also note that this whole process has been going on for months and Medicaid expansion has been at the core from the beginning. Nelson has had plenty of opportunity to try to come up with ideas on this score, and didn’t. The bill is also phased in very slowly, so if he wants to tweak the details of financing Medicaid expansion he could easily do so in 2010 or 2011 or 2012 or 2013 or 2014 or 2015 or 2016 before Nebraska has to pay a single cent on this. Derailing the process at this point over the idea that paying 7.2 percent of the cost (!) of Medicaid expansion in 2019 (!) will bankrupt the state reeks of someone who’s searching for reason to say “no.”