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US cable TV channel Comedy Central is pressing ahead with a new series that lampoons President George W. Bush and his inner circle by imagining them as juvenile cartoon misfits.
The decision to proceed with six half-hour episodes of Lil' Bush: Resident of the United States comes just weeks after Bush and his Republican party suffered a resounding defeat in the mid-term elections.
Lil' Bush turns the central figures of the Bush administration into South Park-like characters like Lil' Cheney, who grumbles unintelligibly, and Lil' Condi, who yearns for Lil' Bush and does his homework.
When Lil' Bush's school serves falafel instead of hot dogs for lunch in one episode, he and his pals torture the cafeteria employees with methods made famous during the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
