Step One: The rag soaked with chloroform ...

According to Step Two of our action plan, State Representative Steve Stemler would awaken in a secret re-education center devoted to proponents of oligarch enrichment and bridge tolls, who somehow still insist on being called "Democrats" against all prevailing evidence.

Unfortunately, our own Doctor Wu decided that Rep. Stemler was too far gone to be helped, and so the rag soaked with chloroform was replaced with a regular old handkerchief.

Foiled again ...