This book was born somewhere between a breaking scandal and a broken coffee machine in a newsroom. It's a collection of sharp, irreverent, politically incorrect, and occasionally borderline-illegal stories about the strange carnival we call modern politics. The characters in these stories might feel familiar: a senator who filibusters himself to sleep, a president who governs by PowerPoint, a lobbyist who can bribe without blinking, and an entire cabinet that makes reality TV look scripted. They aren't based on real people—unless, of course, the real people accidentally based themselves on satire. In an age where parody struggles to keep up with the news cycle, this book tries to laugh with the madness. Or at it. Definitely at it.