The congressman looked at her twice to make sure she wasn't joking. "Why the President is Lemons Flemm," he said. "You know that. But perhaps you remember Lemons when he was a television comedian. That's how Lemons got elected, you know.
"During campaign time Lemons' sponsor refused to give up his air time for the candidates speeches. As a result everyone was trying to watch Lemons and the candidates at the same time, and they got confused. When they counted the votes, Lemons was elected.
"And he's made the most entertaining president we've ever had. Taxes up one day and down the next. Anything for a laugh. Anything and everything goes."
"I see," Toffee said. "This comedian, then, is at the head of the government?"
"Right on the top of the heap. However, if any of us ever live to see another election I doubt that Lemons will be reelected. It seems that during the campaign there were a lot of people who thought the candidates were a lot funnier than Lemons."
"But this Lemons Flemm is running things?"
"A mile a minute," Orvil Bloodsop nodded.
"Then if someone were in possession of a really decisive secret weapon he'd be the man to contact, wouldn't he?"
"I doubt if he'd be interested," the congressman said. "Secret weapons have been done to death lately. Everyone's sick of them."