How many Republicans does it take to screw in a lightbulb

Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996
From: Rhiannon Walker / rhiannon@COUGAR.MULTILINE.COM.AU / Starchild

Q: How many Republicans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A: Four hundred and sixty-two:

• twelve to investigate Clinton's involvement in the failure of the old bulb,
• twenty-three to deregulate the light bulb industry,
• sixteen to cut funding for alternative lighting R&D,
• thirty-four to cut the tax rate on light bulbs,
• fifty-three to design a block grant so the states can change the bulb,
• forty-one to talk with defense contractors about night-vision gear instead, and
• two hundred and eighty-three to pass a law making it illegal to discuss naked bulbs (or screwing anything) on the Internet.