According to this it means Matt Davies is a rube:

Obama’s selection of Rahm Emanuel to be Chief of Staff sends a very important signal about what we can expect from an Obama administration.  Powerline’s Paul Mirengoff is absolutely correct that the “combination of ability to knock heads and aknowledge of Congress [is] an excellent combination”, and Ezra Klein gets close to the real meaning of this selection here…

Emanuel is a brawler. He’s legendarily tough and effective and ruthless. Hes the type of guy who makes enemies, then makes lists of his enemies, then makes lists of his enemies’ friends, then makes lists of how they’ll pay. If you thought the Obama administration would be all about bringing people together and would simply make sad faces when stubborn congressmen refused to come to the table, this is a clear sign otherwise. If good feelings don’t suffice, bareknuckle politics will happily be employed.

The lesson from this, however, is not so much that Obama is willing to play bareknuckle politics.  That’s not news.  Obama sold the “new kind of politics” and “unity” spin for the rubes, and apparently it sold quite well, but it was just clever marketing. Obama has always been willing to play hardball.

And now from Matt:

Matt DaviesNovember 5th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

He is inheriting a huge pile of mess, which will be a challenge to say the least. I predict he will not overreach, and he will surprise moderate Republicans. He will also disappoint progressive Dems as during the campaign he was very specific about wanting to bring America together, which all along never meant adhering to a strict ideology. I believe the current era of a White House doing the unsavory bidding of a tiny percentage of ideologues is over. The temptation to rub the GOPs nose in its own ideological mess is something that a President Obama appears to have zero interest in.
Watch for Obama and McCain working together on a major bill early on.

Mr. Davies cartooning Kung Fu is not to be trifled with,  he has a Pulitzer to prove it, and a british accent to top it all off. I wish I had a british accent, how cool would that be?  I was hoping my son would have a british accent but it wasn’t in the genes, I guess. Anyway. 

Matt Davies, Kung Fu master, Pulitzer holder, british speaking sophisticate. And. Rube.   That’s a funny contrast. Then I read about how late night television writers and comedians and cartoonists struggle to find humor in the Obama phenomenon. They can’t see it because they are part of it. The Kool Aid still stains their thinking. They ask, Where’s the funny in all this, where’s the boob, where’s the clown? A Rounders quote:” If you can’t spot the sucker in the first half hour YOU are the sucker.”‘

Yep