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Let’s Learn to Laugh About Obama
The New Yorker cover controversy and Obama's humorless reaction show that America has forgotten how to laugh.
In fairness, the reason some thought the cartoon would be misconstrued was that it was unfinished satire. The artist, Barry Blitt, simply did not go far enough; he should have included a “Honk if you love jihad” bumper sticker on the back of Obama’s caftan, had Fidel Castro sitting nearby, and displayed a thermostat set to either “very cold in winter” or “sweaty in summer.” Satire is meant to be broad but — for whatever reason, perhaps precisely because we cannot gauge Obama’s sense of humor — the artist pulled his punch. In so doing, he ended up confusing and infuriating the Left and amusing the Right, who not only got the insult but found it particularly funny that, in their tortured explanations, the Left gave more and more exposure to those extreme ideas. Oh, irony!
Several days into the breathless tangle, Sen. Obama finally made a clear statement to Larry King, in which he attempted to play down the cartoon while reiterating the message: “I’ve seen and heard worse,” he said. “I do think that in attempting to satirize something, they probably fueled some misconceptions about me instead. But that was their editorial judgment.”
Oh, brother. As Daffy Duck might say, “What a way to run a railroad!” Obama’s earnest and boring response was exactly wrong. If he truly believed that the satirical edge was missing — and thus misleading — he should have himself made the content plain with a genial laugh and a concurrence: “Wait,” Obama could have said, “where’s my fake birth certificate hanging on the wall? Why doesn’t my wife have a Jackie Kennedy pillbox hat on her head? He left out my hammer and sickle!”
When Ronald Reagan was asked a question about age and the presidency — a question meant to highlight his advanced years — he quickly quipped, “I’m not going to hold my opponent’s youth against him.” The issue was dead from that point on.
Earnestness is all well and good, but a light touch and a shared laugh can reassure the nation that the bad times are endurable, the good times are just ahead, and the president has his wits about him and his eye on that football.
Al Gore and John Kerry were unacquainted with self-deprecating humor and they lost to a Texan who could make fun of himself. Obama — if he is smart — will heed history and lighten up, before he falls from a glorious height and lands with a very cartoon-like thud. No one wants to watch him walk away with his head between his feet.
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Elizabeth Scalia is a contributing writer to First Things Magazine and the blogger known as The Anchoress.
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1. jvon:Oh I wouldn’t say no one.
Jul 19, 2008 - 1:37 am 2. Ed Wallis:The joy I find in good satire – and found in this New Yorker cartoon – is the power of “a grain of truth” (perhaps an entire sandy beach in this case…) in humor.
Jul 19, 2008 - 4:10 am 3. Bob:The problem is not Obama: He’s not the only politician who’s not a as witty and charming as The Gipper. It’s the media, stupid. They hang on BHO’s every word. Making fun of him would be like ridiculing the Gospel. The right has it right when they refer to him as Lord Obama or ObamaMessiah, not because he’s the second coming of Christ, but because that’s the way his media sycophants view him. All three traditional broadcast anchors accompanying a Presidential candidate on an overseas trip, including a public rally in a foreign country – don’t hold your breath until this happens to a Republican candidate. They’re so far in the tank for this guy they can’t see straight – let alone see anything funny about their Savior.
Jul 19, 2008 - 4:24 am 4. Broadsword:The candidate of Changeful Hope and Hopeful Change is hopelessly mired in the black hole of his own self regard, from which no ray of humor escapes.
Jul 19, 2008 - 4:49 am 5. hdgreene:I think Sen. Obama has a good sense of humor. When he said Sen. Clinton was acting like she was “all Anne Oakley out there with her six shooter,” that was quite funny. And the discreet flip of the bird the Clinton’s way kind of work for me. Certainly, the audience responded well when he spoke of the Hillary Campaign while brushing dandruff off his shoulders and dog poop from his shoes. So I think an overall sense of humor is there.
As for self deprecating humor: He did compare his grandmother to his racist preacher, does that count?
Jul 19, 2008 - 5:12 am 6. David Thomson:“Making fun of him would be like ridiculing the Gospel.”
The Obama phenomenon is very dangerous. It reminds me of the adulation Italians had for Benito Mussolini. There is a fascistic quality to the followers of the Anointed One.
Jul 19, 2008 - 6:17 am 7. Bill Perron:I want to se the Anointed One walk away with his head between his feet.
Jul 19, 2008 - 7:24 am 8. tanstaafl:…who not only got the insult but found it particularly funny that, in their tortured explanations, the Left gave more and more exposure to those extreme ideas. Oh, irony!
The ‘toon itself was something like an ad for extreme negative stereotypes of the Obamas.
Good job helping out your candidate, New Yorker.
Maybe the magazine could, next, parody some of the more substantive reservations about the Obamas, like…Are we rubes really mean and “complacents” ? (as a noun, eeks !) Do we cling to guns and religion as crutches to get us through our miserable lives?
Obama’s arrogance and condescension provide a lot of cartoon material. So does the litany of flip flops.
I guess blue state self-anointed “sophisticates” with an agenda just don’t get it. Sigh
The only question there is whether [the cover] is too sophisticated to actually be perceived the way it is intended.
Mrs. Greenspan (Andrea Mitchell) needs to get out more.
Jul 19, 2008 - 7:30 am 9. BackwardsBoy:Obama seems to be the most humorless politician I’ve seen in quite some time. This may be because he takes himself far too seriously, as do many of his devotees. Here’s my qualification for President; would I want to go to a bar with this guy? Not to pick up chicks, but just have a beer or two and watch some sports. Would he be a good conversationalist? Offer friendly jousts? Disagree without becoming disagreeable? Would a second bar outing be offered? If any of these questions is answered “no”, then what’s the point? You can see everything in a person by watching them drive a car and how they behave after two beers.
Jul 19, 2008 - 7:42 am 10. Out and about | The Anchoress:[...] My latest at Pajamas Media I dare to tell a joke about Obama and suggest humorous banter is essential to a healthy presidency: [Comedy writers are]… doing Obama no favors by holding him exempt from ridicule. Suffering ridicule is part of the job of being president; it comes with the nuclear football, and quite possibly that is why. The American presidency is already a grave and heavy office; without humorous chucking back and forth — between the president and the press or between him and the satirists — it would seem unbearably ponderous and remote, inaccessible to the citizenry, and inexpressibly lonely for the president. [...] Lately humor in America has almost outsmarted itself, becoming too ironic by half — so much so that this week the New Yorker caused something of a brouhaha by printing a satirical cover of Senator and Mrs. Obama so heavy with irony that the Obama campaign, and many in the press, took to the airways to explain it. In an effort spanning three news cycles, ardent reporters and Democrats reassured the blue states that the magazine cover was not labeling Obama a radical Muslim and his wife a militant proponent of black liberation theology; it was making fun of people who think those things! Then — not exactly in one syllable words, but very nearly — some, like Andrea Mitchell, explained the thing to the unsophisticated rubes in the red states: “This. Is. What. You. Think. And. We. Are. Laughing. At. You. Get. It. Cornpones?” [...]
Jul 19, 2008 - 8:18 am 11. Bill Thomas:Let’s see, when was the last time cartoons caused so much debate about who can take a joke? That’s right, the Danish ones that made fun of Mohammed a few years ago. Now we have a New Yorker cover depicting Barak Obama and his wife as a Moslem terrorist and a Black Panther fist bumping as an American flag burns in the Oval Office fire place. And what happens? Obama and his supporters are up in arms. Interesting reaction. Shouldn’t they be laughing, or at least pretending to be? Otherwise, they’ll make people think the New Yorker got it right.
Jul 19, 2008 - 8:38 am 12. misanthropicus:And what really was the magaizne’s intent? After watching editor David Remnick on The Charlie Rose Show the other night, suggesting that The New Yorker plans to endorse Obama for president, it makes you wonder. Was the cover satire or wishful thinking?
It’s the New Yorker article’s content, not the cover, stupid!
The article on Glibama is a withering piece, and the Glibamatonic media was very good at shifting the public’s attention from that very damaging piece to an apparently hot, yet actually trivial issue – whether that illustration is offending or not.
So, this manipulation of public’s attention shows that the Glibamatons are very keen and very responsive about servicing Glibama’s image (again, it’s not the illustration, it’s the very long, well documented and very damaging piece about Glibama).
And now about the psychological environment in which that operation succeeded: How many people who talk about the New Yorker/Glibama cover have ACTUALLY read the article in cause? 75%? 60%? 50%? 40%? 30%?
I’d go for a 40% – and this particular New Yorker situation is another illustration of the psychological environment which makes the Glibama deification so successful.
And since here, in the still posted PJM, Michael Weiss’ “NY Cover Parody Lost On The Left” thread of 61 entries, only TWO of them (”Misanthropicus” and “Valerie”) bring up the point that the cover issue is irrelevant, and that it’s the New Yorker article’s CONTENT that is the REAL STORY.
Jul 19, 2008 - 8:39 am 13. John Samford:And now, a shy question – how many of the other, PJM 59 posters in that thread really read the New Yorker article on Glibama?
I laugh so hard my sides hurt every time some moroon claims cutting and running in Iraq will end the war. Or everytime algore (planet gore?) opens his mouth. As far a Ohhhhhhh,,,,,,BAAAMA? I will laugh when Billery steals the nomination at the convention. I will laugh even harder when the Obamamanics go on a rampage afterward.
Jul 19, 2008 - 8:39 am 14. Peanut Gallery:If true and documentable, the Cover and apparently a few unrelated similars brought out an interesting side of him: Him presenting comedians with a list of jokes that acceptable to be telling about him.
If anyone thinks this man does not actively shut down people’s voices at will and whim even before he might possibly actually get into the presidential office, (please) think again.
Stay tuned.
Jul 19, 2008 - 8:56 am 15. frieda:“We are the people we’ve been waiting for”? Actually, I’m pretty sure we’re the people who put all our money in Yahoo and then bought a house to flip and now are hocking everything we have. We’re the people China has been waiting for.
visit: http://www.obamasgaffes.blogspot.com
Jul 19, 2008 - 9:23 am 16. Jack Olson:What’s black and white and Red all over? Barack Obama.
Jul 19, 2008 - 9:44 am 17. cedarford:In one sense I think Obamessiah is better mentally on the matter of humor and insults directed his way than the way Nixon or McCain allowed themselves to get wounded by insults then carry the grudge forever. He is aloof and detached, and can dump inconvenient people from his sphere with no remorse or 2nd thought.
In short, he has the great shield of Elitism that was such a defense for FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Bush I, Hillary, Algore, Bush II. If you know you are great and have had people schmootching your ass most of your life and telling you you are special – why would lesser people criticizing you generate any worry??
Whereas insecure people who battled their way from little to the top are still inside them the failed haberdasher, the boy hungry in cast-me-downs in a small house in a failing lemon grove, the dirt-poor big guy from Texas hill country, the Bubba fighting life in an alcoholic home. Criticism of the people that came from humble beginnings wounds deeper.
Whereas McCain has some humor, but he is also someone from an honor culture that LIKES fighting and carrying a grudge (See Jim Webb, Andrew Jackson, Jim Brown)
Jul 19, 2008 - 9:51 am 18. 11B40:Even more important to me than Senator Obama’s Muslim background is his psychological background. And yet, in this land of punditry, no one seems interested in exploring this aspect of his personality or should I say his persona.
It seems to me that he has been abandoned by both his birth parents, first his Kenyan father and subsequently his American mother, then separated from his male Indonesian parent. I cannot imagine that these experiences have not caused some level of psychological infirmity.
When I watch his public poses, chin elevated and staring off into the far distance, I see a little bit of Castro and/or Hitler. When I listen to his snappish responses, I sense a reservoir of anger that someday will bubble up to the surface. When I see him without his tele-prompter, I see a man who knows he is in deep water not knowing how to swim. When I think about someone who has participated in the Saul Alinsky “community organizing,” or manipulation if you will, I wonder what is really in the back of his mind.
Jul 19, 2008 - 10:20 am 19. Anya2:Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: To avoid a moderator-free debate with Hillary Clinton!
or
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Jul 19, 2008 - 10:29 am 20. Russ Armstrong:A: If it was a typical white chicken, it was because he saw an unfamiliar face.
The 800-pound gorilla in the room is race. No one makes jokes about Obama because no one wants to be called a racist.
Jul 19, 2008 - 10:57 am 21. patty b:what i dislike most about obama is his arrogance 0f course he had to go to europe we cant keep the messiah all to ourselves. the american scene is too small for him. he said he is embrassed in our ability to speak french.HEY DUMMY OBAMA, SEEMS LIKE YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY. IM SURE THE FRENCH CITIZENS HAD NO TROUBLE WITH OUR LANGUAGRE SKILLS WHEN WE SAVED THEIR ASSES FROM THE NAZIS
Jul 19, 2008 - 10:59 am 22. John Samford:“Whereas McCain has some humor, but he is also someone from an honor culture that LIKES fighting and carrying a grudge (See Jim Webb, Andrew Jackson, Jim Brown)”
May I read this as saying NObama has no Honor?
“If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn’t thinking.”
- General George Patton Jr
“Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.”
Jul 19, 2008 - 11:02 am 23. Dave II:- General George S. Patton, Jr
“No one wants to watch him walk away with his head between his feet.”
Speak for yourself, Elizabeth! Of course, in cartoons they just pop back up to appear good as new the next scene.
Figuratively speaking though…NOTHING would be funnier than to see Obama land with a big thud on November 4th!
Jul 19, 2008 - 11:29 am 24. Hyphenated American:I find it ironic that the left-wing media claims it is difficult to make jokes about Obama. Come on! Here is a link to a nice piece from Saturday Night Life about Obama, and tell me it is not funny.
http://theutubeblog.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/snl-parody-of-h.html
Secondly, had New Yorker put, say, Che Gevara’s portrait on the wall, that would have been much more biting – and amazingly true.
Jul 19, 2008 - 11:51 am 25. ursa major:How many times have you seen the following LibLefties smile or laugh: Harry Reid, Patty Murray,Chris Dodd,Chuck Schumer, Mulkowski, Leahy, Waxman, Conyers, Pelosi, Stabenow, Levin, Durbin? The list could go on and on.
Jul 19, 2008 - 12:22 pm 26. newton:Trust me on this one: it will be fine to joke about Obama… until the day one of his thugs goes after the comedian or cartoonist who dared laugh at him.
This reminds me of a couple of scenes from that happily forsaken film, “V for Vendetta”, in which this comedian dared to joke about the dictator Prime Minister on TV, only to see himself taken out of his house at gunpoint, and later executed.
I wonder if that’s what Obama’s friends have in mind…
Jul 19, 2008 - 1:09 pm 27. Typical White Person:This site is never afraid to poke fun at Obama…
CARBOLIC EXCLUSIVE: First Look at Next Week’s New Yorker Cover
Magazine’s editor relents, apologizes, promises to change
http://carbolicsmoke.com/2008/07/18/carbolic-exclusive-first-look-at-next-weeks-new-yorker-cover/
Jul 19, 2008 - 2:20 pm 28. Typical White Person:Obama Scolds The New Yorker for Leading Electorate to Believe He’s A Radical Muslim, Issues Fatwa Against Editors, Cover Artist
http://carbolicsmoke.com/2008/07/15/obama-scolds-the-new-yorker-for-leading-electorate-to-believe-hes-radical-muslim-issues-fatwa-against-editors-cover-artist/
Jul 19, 2008 - 2:23 pm 29. OBAMA TRIP HURTS U.S. ECONOMY!:THE MAGAZINE HAD IT RIGHT!
FOR SALE – AMERICAN PRESIDENCY!
How about if we elect a President the old fashioned way — through fair and honest elections, based upon the candidate’s actual patriotism, experience, judgment, and service to country — instead of who is more of a showman, or who can raise more money — and, therefore, buy the Presidency (like Barack Hussein Obama did in the primaries) — and is trying to do in the general election.
Where did Obama’s money come from? How much came from his terrorists friends and foreign countries?
Why is he in Europe? Is he getting more money? Europeans can’t vote for President of the U.S.
Why won’t he participate in town hall meetings with “Americans”?
How much did this trip cost? What is this trip costing the American Enonomy? Why does he need 300 advisors? Do they put a piece in his ear and feed his speech to him?
McCain has been over there eight times — the biased media did not report it — they certainly did no go with him.
I’m voting for John McCain.
Jul 19, 2008 - 2:41 pm 30. Ed Wallis:cedarford: “He [Obama] is aloof and detached, and can dump inconvenient people from his sphere with no remorse or 2nd thought.”
You must be on Soros’ or The Obambozler’s personal payroll to write such relativistic tripe.
With such “detachment” as The Obamboozler has shown to date, he could just as well sell the United States of America down the river as easily…err, I mean, with “no remorse or 2nd thought” as the way he disposed of his faith (see: Rev. God-Damn-America Wright), his commitment to family (see: his own “typical white person” grandmother)…among so many other issues of principle….and YES, as cynical as politics may be, “principle” still exists and matters.
Jul 19, 2008 - 4:11 pm 31. abu al-fin:You seem to be implying that Obama thinks of himself as some sort of minor deity. That is not true at all. Obama sees himself as far more important than that. Obama just got in on the self-esteem generation. Nobody does it better.
Jul 19, 2008 - 4:59 pm 32. GM Roper:The New Yorker had it closer to being correct than if they had portrayed him as an experienced pol with good military judgment.
Jul 19, 2008 - 7:48 pm 33. Believer:Does one who lives in hell laugh? It may explain Obama’s lack of humor. Though I’ve noticed he gets a kick out of making fun of others.
Wanting to know more about what shaped him, I made the mistake of reading just now about Saul Alinsky and the corruption of the DNC. You can read it too at:
tysknews.com/artices/dnc_corruption.htm. Or Yahoo “alinsky rules.”
Obama was considered a particularly talented Alinsky practitioner. I’ve arrived at a different conclusion: He has a talent for evil. And he wants us to join him in his hell. The sooner we look him straight in the eye and tell him who he is, the better off we’ll all be.
He’s counting on us being too nice. Not calling him on it. Well then, be polite about it. But do it. We’re inviting insanity otherwise. And an evil that will destroy us all. That’s what living with lies is: Hell.
This explains why he repulses me. As do so many Democrats.
The New Yorker could have another cover: Obama dancing with the Devil. At least that’s whose work this Conservative thinks he does. And those who would laugh – show me where I’m wrong.
Jul 20, 2008 - 2:53 am 34. tanstaafl:The article on Glibama is a withering piece…how many of the other, PJM 59 posters in that thread really read the New Yorker article on Glibama?
There are two articles on Barack in the July 21 edition of the New Yorker. I wouldn’t characterize either one as a “withering piece”, although I wasn’t sufficiently interested in the long account of his rise to read the the main article closely. I don’t find political machinations within the context of Chicago/Illinois politics that interesting.
The shorter article lines out Obama’s flip flops, but concludes at the end that McCain’s flip flops are more “consequential”.
LINK: If this is the one you’re referring to
Jul 20, 2008 - 6:11 am 35. Captain Hate:“As for self deprecating humor: He did compare his grandmother to his racist preacher, does that count?”
Not unless Oblammo is his own grandmother.
Jul 20, 2008 - 11:47 am 36. Whatever happened to “no harm no foul”? « MaggieLomas:[...] the hullabaloo over the New Yorker cover of Obama, Elizabeth Scalia writes: The American presidency is already a grave and heavy office; without humorous chucking back and [...]
Jul 20, 2008 - 11:51 am 37. djaces:I personally think the cover brouhaha was created to divert attention from the Lizza article. To anyone who hasn’t drunk the last drop of Obama Kool-Aid, it paints a portrait of a malignant narcissist driven by massive ambition, self regard, and a Clintonian sense of entitlement to power, who’s only consistently demonstrated talent is the construction of networks of association with people who possess the resources or influence to advance his ambition of the moment the most. Of course, when their usefulness declines or someone more useful is drawn into the network, any or all of them could be betrayed or abandoned.
Jul 20, 2008 - 1:23 pm 38. AST:One thing I found interesting about the article was relatively high number, for a liberal publication, of named sources. It would appear that not everyone in the Windy City shares Obama’s high opinion of himself. Which brings to mind a question I have pondered for a while. What does it say about a man, who upon graduating from the Ivy League, possessed with overriding political ambitions, but a rather rootless personal history, gazes about the vast American political landscape for a place to plant his flag, and says to himself Chicago, yeah, that’s the ticket. I can’t think of moment in the last hundred years that the phrase ‘Chicago politics” hasn’t been completely synonymous with the most corrupt political system in the country, but Obama, apparently correctly, surmised that Chicago was where his gifts were best suited.
To paraphrase an old joke about feminists,
Q: “How many Obama supporters does it take to change a light bulb?”
A: “That’s not funny!”
I’m at a total loss to explain not only his popularity, but the quasi-religious nature of Obamism. Maybe he’s the Antichrist.
Jul 20, 2008 - 2:48 pm 39. always right:Since WHEN do we need to “learn to laugh at” ___?
Forget about Obama’s humor, I didn’t know we need guidelines for our own humor.
Jul 21, 2008 - 7:38 am 40. Cranium:Mrs. O is a barrel of laughs, too.
http://carbolicsmoke.com/2008/07/21/carbolic-flashback-july-21-1969/
Jul 21, 2008 - 12:51 pm 41. Sheila:AST – you arent the first person to wonder that. In a fit of intellectualism I once wondered that maybe Obama was Nostradamus’ Anti-Christ. For a while I thought I was pretty smart. Then I googled, “Nostradamus” “Anti-Christ” and “Obama” and was astounded by the number of hits.
Jul 22, 2008 - 7:28 am 42. Obama vs McCain = Mac vs PC | The Anchoress:[...] on multiple levels – but this piece by Confederate Yankee is pretty darn clever, and it signals to those comedy writers who doubted it that there is plenty of room for real satire involving both candidates in this campaign. [...]
Jul 22, 2008 - 9:12 am 43. John Samford:How many Obamanics does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None, they screw in a closet.
Jul 23, 2008 - 7:08 am 44. Pajamas Media » PJM Political 7/23/08: The Spike Remains The Same:[...] Elizabeth Scalia, the Anchoress, says, “Let’s Learn To Laugh About Obama.” [...]
Jul 23, 2008 - 1:31 pm 45. james wilson:A remark generaly hurts in proportion to the truth it contains–
Jul 24, 2008 - 7:42 pm 46. Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Sense of Humor:Will Rogers
[...] Elizabeth Scalia explores the Obama-humor relationship. [...]
Jul 24, 2008 - 7:46 pm 47. Ned Ludd:I love the comment that Obama is hurting the American economy!
Jul 25, 2008 - 7:01 am 48. Ned Ludd:He might have an assist from budget deficit,the war, tax breaks for the very wealthy, gas prices, falling home values, unemployment, and on and on and on…joke on: the joke is on us for electing Bush and his merry madmen.
McCaine: if elected, I will see that Anger Management programs are offered in No Politican left behind programs.
McCain: Just because I am old and dumb and can not understand economics, and geography, does not mean I can not screw a lightbulb , old something like that.
McCain: if elected, I will make Rove head of CIA
McCain: how do I get hold of a library card for the Bush Library, and where is it…no. I don’t know how many states we have in the country…does Iraq count?
remember this and vote for the GOP!
http://republicanoffenders.com/
Jul 25, 2008 - 7:02 am 49. Rachel Peepers:So at a November Senate lunch, Obama, who happened to be seated next to John McCain, made some
polite conversation.
Obama asked McCain what it was like in the Hanoi Hilton, living with the threat of torture, never knowing when you’ll get your freedom.
In a quiet, steady voice, John McCain simply said, “Obama, it was a horrible experience. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Obamba thought about that for a moment and replied. Yeah, John, but, at the same time, do you have any idea what it’s been like being married to Michelle for all these years?
Jul 27, 2008 - 9:48 am 50. Brain on Hope: all hoped up | The Anchoress:[...] it’s a better attempt at satire than the New Yorker cover, which utterly failed because it did not go far enough, but…it still doesn’t really [...]
Jul 28, 2008 - 2:35 pm 51. Hugo:I have not forgotten how to laugh. Especially now. Can Republicans still laugh? Hahaha!
Nov 7, 2008 - 12:22 pmIt’s now President Obama.
Deal with it, right wing extremist inbred Republicans!