Packed with detailed instructions on essential topics like how to run a smear campaign, how to cover a leak and how to plant one, plus diagrams for fully functioning voting booth/ballot shredders, this is a must-read to surviving the 2006 elections.

"Uber-humorist Borowitz (Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers) churns out humor at a fast clip — and here is another timely example. Filled with short memos, talking points and marginal notes from its purported possessor, George W. Bush, this is the latest update of a playbook that claims to have changed very little in recent years — except that the Internet has made it easier to 'spread lies and distortions.' It advises candidates to scare voters with a doctored photo of a future Democratic-controlled Supreme Court featuring the Dixie Chicks, Michael Moore and Alec Baldwin. There's a devastating sketch about how the Republic Party favors a credible voting process — in Iraq — followed by a somewhat labored Bruce McCallesque set of drawings of Republican-approved voting machines. A hilarious set of photos moves six degrees from Hillary Clinton to Osama bin Laden and Kim Jong Il. A Republican-to-English glossary translates 'personal responsibility' to 'welfare cuts' and 'My fellow Americans' to 'My fellow evangelical Christians.' More silly, but still amusing, is a 'Democrat to French conversion chart,' rendering Joseph Biden as 'Giscard Boudin.' Enough serious points are presented with humor — how the Republicans fool the public with black faces prominent at their conventions, for example, or where the 'war on terror' breaks down — to make this book more than just a diversion." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)