Memorial Hall to host musical satire

They're not trying to be funny.

But when Mitt Romney refers to Barack Obama as Osama Bin Laden or John Kerry suggests that soldiers aren't educated, it's hard to keep a straight face.

These guys can't be serious, right?

Scratch the surface of Washington politics and you find you're either in tears or roaring with laughter. Politics as usual is pretty unusual when you consider what the powerful are doing and saying these days.

If you don't laugh, you'll cry. Or, maybe, you'll laugh until you cry.