US Vice-President Joe Biden was sitting in his garden smelling the roses when a flash of light streaked across the sky and came to rest on the patio beside him.

Was it a meteorite or a World Series homer? No it was Palinpower.

‘Hi Joe’ said Palinpower ‘I’ve dropped in to let you know that the Obama administration’s days of stuffing the US economy are numbered. The forces of honour and righteousness are about to take back the House and maybe the Senate as well’

‘Get lost Palinpower’ said Joe ‘your Mary Poppins impersonation doesn’t impress me. As far as I am concerned you can get on the same broomstick as your witch of a friend Christine O’Donnell and fly away for a long spell’

‘The people are pissed off with your profligacy’ said Palinpower ‘they believe there’s as much chance of Obama getting them back to work as me getting my own show on National Public Radio’

‘You’re just a sore loser’ said Joe ‘I tremble to think what sort of a state the country would be in if you and McCain had won the last election. We’d either be in the doghouse or the poorhouse’

‘Well now we’re in the shithouse’ said Palinpower ‘Joe I’ve come to make an appeal to you on behalf of the American people to admit you’ve made an absolute pigs ear of things and resign before China starts suing us for arrears’

‘Why don’t you go and fly up yourself Palinpower’ suggested Joe ‘The President and I are bringing a modern progressive agenda to this great nation through our healthcare program and through smashing the ten green bottles standing on a Wall St and replacing them with a mosque’

‘Joe you need to get off you Washington ass and take a look around’ said Palinpower ‘Hillary agrees with me. She’s either going to replace you in 2011 or knock Obama out of the race to get trounced by me in 2012’

‘Come on Palinpower’ said Joe ‘you don’t seriously believe that Americans are going to trust you and those Tea Party loons to run the country. It would be like Lindsey Lohan taking over a drug rehabilitation center’

‘The Tea Party are on the move’ said Palinpower ‘and we’ll have the Democratic Party for breakfast’

‘Tell me Palinpower’ said Joe ‘how come you can fly?’

‘I take an ancient Alaskan potion’ said Palinpower ‘called moose juice’

‘It must be a banned substance’ said Joe ‘or else you’d be a shoo-in for the long jump gold medal at the next Olympics’

‘It will certainly ensure ‘said Palinpower ‘that you’re for the high jump at the next election’

With that she was gone in a flash leaving Joe to ponder whether Republican prospects for winning the next presidential election were up in the air.