Could I Play Basketball at the Guantanamo Detention Camp?

The cover of this week's National Journal, a weekly trade publication on politics and government, asks a very suggestive question:

"What If ... Republicans were able to enact some of their most controversial proposals? A look at what might happen to abortion, Social Security, taxation, energy development, the legal system, and education."

If I were the publisher of National Journal, I would have used the following on the cover to pose such a question.



It's not a difficult question to ask, so I don't know why they have to waste an entire issue on it. If Republicans were able to enact some of their most controversial proposals, the country would bear a slight resemblance to this:



It reminds me of a joke that the part-time standup comic friend of mine used when Pat Buchanan was running for president: If Pat Buchanan became president, Mexico would build a wall along the border to prevent Americans from going over.