Patriotism Training

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel announced at today's staff meeting that "Remedial Patriotism Training" will be mandatory for all cabinet members and appointees, effective immediately.

During last year's primary campaign, Senator Barack Hussein Obama was indignant when his patriotism was questioned after it was revealed that for twenty years he attended a church pastored by anti-American racist nutjob Jeremiah Wright and that he had a long association with Weather Underground terrorist William Ayres and worked with Ayres to distribute millions of dollars from Ayres organization, Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

Later in the fall, Vice Presidental candidate Joe Biden defined patriotism as "willingly bankrolling the expansion of government at a higher rate than everyone else."

To prevent the black eye of further accidental lapses in patriotism, the administration is acting to ensure that all cabinet members recognize that the tax laws apply to them too.