Please help me figure out what this political cartoon is about

[Rabrrrrrr]

I just don't get it.

Is it a Tiger Woods reference? The front guy doesn't look like him at all. Is there significance to the 12th tee, versus some other number?

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/stahler/gallery.html?appSession=917121939478619&RecordID=266&PageID=3&PrevPageID=2&cpipage=1&CPIsortType=&CPIorderBy=&

[Richardo]

1. The woman represents Blanche Lincoln and the running guy is Harry Reid.

The golf club represents the public option and the two guys on the TEE box are Boehner and McConnell ("tea baggers").

[rug]

2. It is an oblique refrence to the blind Doge, Enrico Dandolo, and his plan to ravage Constantinople

under the guise of the Fourth Crusade.

[Orrex]

3. Oblique? Bah!

Pretty straightforward, if you ask me.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. That was my first thought, but I thought it was too obvious an answer.

I was thinking maybe a subtle undercurrent of sympathetic polemic against the defenestration of Jan Hus.

[rug]

5. The Simpsons addressed that in Season 3.

Episode 4.

[hippywife]

6. I think it is a reference to

the Tiger sitch and how it might now be okay for wives to chase their husbands with golf clubs since there were no consequences for the Woods to have paid.

[Brother Buzz]

7. The Escalade crashed into the 11th hole bunker?

:shrug:

[Bossy Monkey]

8. No soap radio n/t

[marzipanni]

9. I'm not convinced that it's a Tiger reference.

As of last night the count was eight, but then perhaps the cartoonist was being prescient?

[MilesColtrane]

10. It's an argument that the rise of nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century...

...was the spontaneous distillation of a complex 'crossing' of discrete historical forces; that, once created, became 'modular', capable of being transplanted, with varying degrees of self-consciousness, to a great variety of social terrains, to merge and to be merged with a correspondingly wide variety of political and ideological constellations.

Or, it's a tribute to Bill Hoest, creator of "The Lockhorns".