These exchanges are perfect archetypes for many of the debates currently being discussed in the public sector today (I've taken a few liberties in identifying their respective roles):
King Arthur (Conservative): I am your king.
Woman (Undecided): Well I didn't vote for you.
King Arthur (Conservative): You don't vote for kings.
Woman (Undecided): Well how'd you become king then?
[Angelic music plays... ]
King Arthur (Conservative): The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.
Dennis (Liberal): [interrupting] Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Dennis (Liberal): Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
Dennis (Liberal): Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.
[King Arthur, after numerous attempts to verbally silence the liberal, finally resorts to physical violence]
Dennis (Liberal): Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
King Arthur (Conservative): Bloody peasant!
Dennis (Liberal): Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw him, Didn't you?
[Holding the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch]
King Arthur (Conservative): How does it... um... how does it work?
Sir Lancelot (Libertarian): I know not, my liege.
King Arthur (Conservative): Consult the Book of Armaments.
Brother Maynard (Religious Right): Armaments, chapter two, verses nine through twenty-one.
Cleric (Rightwing Nutjob): [reading] And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths, and carp and anchovies, and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit-bats and large chu...
Brother Maynard (Religious Right): Skip a bit, Brother...
Cleric (Rightwing Nubjob): And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
Brother Maynard (Religious Right and Confident to the Republican Party): Amen.