This political cartoon shows Speaker of the House John Boehner (a Republican) and President Barack Obama (a Democrat).The message of the cartoon is that while the two pretend to work together by putting their arms around each other, they are actually

Putting their arms around each other suggests that Boehner and Obama are pretending to cooperate. The contrast implies that, despite this appearance, they are working against each other. So the message is “working against each other.”

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