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Matt Yglesias posted this unbelievable slide featured in Petreus' Pony and More Pony show today.   Matt's commenters have already hit on the high points:  the time axis is meaningless, the stars with question marks are insane, the whole thing looks eerily like the Underpants Gnomes' Business Plan, ...  But the very best commentary comes from Cleek.

I suppose the White House is hoping that the targets of the graph will be forced into one of a few possible options:

a.  This doesn't look right - but maybe it is right.  I'd better keep my mouth shut or people will know I can't read graphs.  Where do I vote to give BushCo more money?

b.  Well, that's pretty.   And it points down.  Whew.  I'm glad that's over.  Where do I vote to give BushCo more money?   

c.  There is so much wrong with that graph that I'll never be able to explain it to voters.   Where do I vote to give BushCo more money?