Perhaps it's gallows humor, ultimately, but there is a very funny write-up on a site I read every week, Prudent Bear. It's called "Aboard The Unsinkable U.S.S Economic: A Drama in Four Acts"

An excerpt:

Bush: “Gentleman, I know sailing and I sure know how champagne and ice flows. (Aside to Mr. Rove) Don’t know much about snow, though. Not much of that where I come from. Mr. Rove, get me Chief Engineer Greenspan in the boiler room.”


Greenspan “Yes, Captain?”


Bush: “Mr. Greenspan, how are the boilers fixin’ for the speed we’re goin’?”


(five minutes later)


Bush: “There you go, fellas. Clear as mud. We were overheating but now we’re underheating so all we’ve got to do is overheat the underheat and it’s steady as she goes.”