It is November 8, 2008. You are in a room with doors to the left and right.
TURN LEFT
You leave the room. It is January 2009. You enter a room containing a sick economy, a printing press, and a small number of Senate Republicans.
PRINT MONEY
How much money?
800 BILLION DOLLARS
The Republicans don't like it.
TALK TO REPUBLICANS
"We want some of this money to be tax cuts."
BAD STIMULUS
"We don't care"
PRINT MONEY
"How much money?"
500 BILLION DOLLARS
The economy takes the money and feels a little better. There are doors to the left and right.
TURN RIGHT
You are in a room marked "Financial System." There is another printing press and a bunch of bankers.
TALK TO BANKERS
"That wrecked economy you saw back there? Our bad. Can we have some money anyway?"
PRINT MONEY
What are you going to do with this money?
GIVE TO BANKERS
There are some strings in your Executive Backpack. Do you want to use them?
NO THAT'S FINE
You give the money to the bankers. They spend some of it on hookers and blow and return to the room where the economy is, laughing maniacally. There are two doors to the left and right.
TURN RIGHT
You enter a room marked "Detainees". There is a illegally detained prisoner, some torture implements, the Senate Republicans, and a writ of habeus corpus.
USE WRIT
The Republicans don't like it.
TALK TO REPUBLICANS
"It is un-American to use something that Americans fought for."
DROP WRIT
The room now has an illegally detained prisoner, some torture implements, and the Senate Republicans.
MOVE PRISONER TO U.S.
The Republicans don't like it.
TALK TO REPUBLICANS
"We are afraid."
KEEP PRISONER THERE
There are doors to the left and right.
TURN RIGHT
You are in a room marked "Health Care Reform." It has a number of policy options and the United States House of Representatives, and the Senate Republicans. Would you like to choose a policy option?
NO
Would you like someone else to choose the policy option?
YES
Who? The United States House of Representatives or the Senate Republicans?
YES
That's not a choice.
I KNOW
The House has chosen anyway. The Republicans aren't happy.
TALK TO REPUBLICANS
"You're a terrorist."
TALK TO REPUBLICANS
"You're worse than Hitler."
TALK TO REPUBLICANS
There are people with guns hanging out with the Republicans.
TALK TO REPUBLICANS
Who say you're not a legitmate President. They seem mad.
TALK TO REPUBLICANS
There are doors to the left and right. The United States House of Representatives would like you to use the one on the left.
TURN RIGHT