A lobbyist, on his way home from work in Washington,
D.C., came to a dead halt in traffic and thought to himself, "Wow, this
seems worse than usual."
He noticed a police officer walking between the lines of
stopped cars, so he rolled down his window and asked, "Officer, what's the
hold-up?"
The officer replied, "The President is depressed,
so he stopped his motorcade and is threatening to douse himself with gasoline
and set himself on fire. He says no one believes his stories about why we went
to war in Iraq, or the connection between Saddam and al-Qaeda, or that his tax
cuts will help anyone except his wealthy friends; the press called him on the
lie about Iraq trying to buy uranium from Niger, and now Campbell Brown is
threatening to sue him for a sexual innuendo he made at a recent press
conference. So we're taking up a collection for him."
The lobbyist asks, "How much have you got so
far?"
The officer replies, "About 14 gallons, but a lot
of folks are still siphoning."
