Where's His Other Leg?

Dick Locher, 1/3/12:

The US's debt is, as we all know, a single cowboy boot, presumably clamped to the country's ankle, so we can't simply kick it off.

But this manly figure -- equal parts Obama, Reagan, and John Wayne -- is going to attempt to shoot it off the foot of the body politic, using a shockingly unlabeled gun (perhaps it should be "Socialism"? or "Massive Taxes"?) with a redundantly labeled silencer, which exists for purposes only clear to the minds of God and Dick Locher.