Government Analogy Fan Prints

'If Mom says no, you ask Dad -- it's called the 'checks and balances' system.'

'Not a word to Alfred, but the spare bedroom is worth losing the fourteen pounds!'

'Do you remember the good old days when April 15 was the only 'fiscal cliff' people worried about?'

"Other folks have to pay taxes, too, Mr. Herndon, so would you please spare us the dramatics!"

'We can't cut entitlements for federal employees. We're federal employees.'

"OSHA is going to hear about this!"

'Daddy! There's a Politician in my closet!'

The NHS begins using outside contractors for routine operations.

'Warren buffett invests only in things he understands...my view is that politicians should regulate only things they understand!'

Real Congressional reform's a must.....

Federal Departument of Edutainment.

Two men who work for The Federal Department of Bureaucracy look at chart 'Things to Pretend to do Today'

"I'm sorry, the Prime Minister is unable to take your call at the moment - please leave your obscenities after the tone..."

CONGRESS, 'Okay, so you've been censured -- you've got to get right back in there and start legislating before you lose your nerve!'

'This won't take long, Senator -- I'm a single-issue nut.'

"Sure, meritocracies are fine, but why take the chance?"

"A non-gorenment organization? There is such a thing?"

'Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker. . . He didn't show up for work today.'

Has A Hole In It Venn Diagram

Investigate Committee On Why There Are So Many Investigative Committees.

'It's interesting that your great-grandparents came over from Ireland in 1887, but you still don't qualify for foreign aid.'

Doctors to treat insomnia with sleep app rather than pills

Most egregious misuse of Commons speaking time.

'Have you noticed how similar Clegg and Cameron look?'=

"Politics is the art of nothing is possible."

Everyone in Health Service working together.

"Congress just passed a bill turning the entire judicial branch of the government over to the States!"

"We briefly thought we balanced the budget, but it was 'fake math'."

'Why retire? Working a nonfunctioning - government is just like being retired.'

"It was the cheapest way for us to cover the potholes."

Congressional Trimming

"My report is on the three branches of government - checks, balances, and subpoenas."

Mind Narrows.