"Yeah, Sergei, I know the box I'm carrying is full

of ballots. But I sometimes think Russia simply

gets too much snow to be a democracy. Democracy,

you know, was invented in Athens, and it doesn't

snow there but once in a blue moon."

Hamid Karzai Goes Forth to Water the Seeds of Democracy

According to the latest poll, the approval rating for the

Congress of the United States is down to 11%. Does this

mean our system of government is no longer a representative

democracy? Has it become a misrepresentative democracy?

An unrepresentative democracy? Or, perhaps, has it become

something other than a democracy altogether?

After a long illness, Democracy in America has died

from Bush Derangement Syndrome. The carcass will be

buried in Arlington National Cemetery as soon as Alexis

de Tocqueville is able to clear customs and perform

the graveside ceremony.

"I, Ayad Allawi, have paid $300,000 to Haley Barbour, the

Governor of Mississippi, to install me in place of the

democratically-elected Governor of Alabama. And I

expect results within one or two Friedman Units!

Or else!"