March 16th, 2010
The official end of bipartisanship
The joint leadership of Congress declared last week the official end of bipartisanship and any pretense of both sides working together. The exciting announcement was made together by both parties on the steps of the Capitol, after which the parties gave each other high-fives, chest bumps, then flipped each other the bird. There was dancing in the street by all the citizens who have been sick and tired of all the mickey mouse for months. The press corps also cheered wildly, and broke out bottles of cheap champagne to celebrate the end to the silly games of gotcha…although some reporters sadly realized that the funnest parts of their jobs may now be over, and they will have to go back to just reporting plain old boring news.
It was long overdue. But the recent Health Care bill fiasco finally made all realize that enough is enough. “We want to take the country into a new, exciting, changed world…a world of marxism, and they don’t,” said a Democratic senator. “There’s no reasoning with those slobs on the right. They just want the same old/same old…with policies of minimal government that are so passe that no one in the world subscribes to anymore. They need to seriously join the 21st century, and get out of their 1776-vintage old fogey ways. Time to wake up and smell the latte, boys.”
Republicans are also relieved at not having to bother with “finding common ground with skunks,” as one congressman put it. They had become frustrated after trying for months and months to interject one lousy little idea into the Obamacare bill, but were shot down and shut out on every try. Conservatives had gotten angry over the secret backroom deals, the Cornhusker Kickbacks, making-up new far-fetched rules on the fly if Dems didn’t like the old rules, and worst of all – using the Constitution for TP. Finally, they said piss on it…we’ll let the voters decide in November if they want Mao and his buddies running things. They then bought themselves a round of shots at Murphy’s Bar, and poured them down their gullets.
The party atmosphere is expected to continue through the St. Patrick’s day holiday. Liberals will be dressed in their customary orange outfits so as to not offend non-Irish people, and naturally are prepared to be cat-called “Protestants” on Wednesday. All are hoping to avoid confrontations like the ones last year, which unfortunately culminated in one drunken Lib yelling out, “Danny Boy was a tea bagger.” Naturally this erupted into fisticuffs with several black eyes, before the paddywagons took the drunk and his orange buddies away.
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