schadenfreude

[Michael Eisenstadt]

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 in 
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-Qa'ida, 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."