Peter Newton

Moon Over The Potomac Peter Newton

Miss Obama, repelled by Trump? Meet President Alfonso Bean and his successor, Raymond "Brick" Gantry, former sheriff and lead singer in the Nogales Meadowlarks. President Bean, or "Mr. Coffee," as his republican detractors like to call him, concludes that the War on Terror is functioning as a terrorist recruitment program and ends it. He abolishes the Drug Enforcement Agency and replaces it with a Department of Fun headed by Nickel Bag Johnson. Secretary Bag sets about to get the nation laid and stoned. The President initiates other enlightened changes until, rabid Cincinnati Bengals fan that he is, Bean goes one step too far. President Gantry is swept into office on a tide of outrage and is ready to deal with North Korea, if only he could find it. Talking doesn't work either, since he has deported all the Koreans and everyone in the State Department has quit. Meanwhile his comely wife Nadine is making eyes at Ace, Gantry's chief political advisor. If you liked "Dr. Strangelove," you'll like this.