In this cartoon, a woman from congress is handing Uncle Sam a huge stack of papers. She tells hime "You have 72 hours to consume this in its entirety and digest its contents" to which Uncle Sam replies "...And then you expect me to pass it?". After Uncle Sam's comment, another politician says "Here's some T.P. and a Tylenol". On the giant stack of papers it says 2000 page healthcare bill.
In the cartoon, the congress woman and the politician who creates the bills for congress to pass. Uncle Sam represents the entire Congress. What this cartoon is saying that congress has a lot of work to do to make a bill into a law. Most people want this task done very fast, and they are very ignorant to how much work it really takes to pass a bill. This is relavent to what we are learning in class because recently we watch a video on how one bill got passed, and how difficult it was. In this cartoon, the satire is present when the guy says "here is some T.P. (toilet paper) and a Tylenol". This makes it seem like passing a bill is similar to taking a painful poop.
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