Ascaris lumbricoides (intestinal roundworms of humans and pigs) is an interesting animal model of Republican parasitism.

Ascaris lumbricoides [...] is one of the largest and most common parasites found in humans. The adult females of this species can measure up to 18 inches long (males are generally shorter), and it is estimated that 25% of the world's population is infected with this nematode.

The Republican parasite is similar, but that malady seems to infect a slightly larger fraction of society - about 30-35%. The males of this species of parasite are also often on the short side.

The adult worms live in the small intestine and eggs are passed in the feces. A single female can produce up to 200,000 eggs each day! About two weeks after passage in the feces the eggs contain an infective larval or juvenile stage, and humans are infected when they ingest such infective eggs.

Adult Republicans also spew out about 200,000 lies each day, and those who swallow them are at extreme risk of infection.

The eggs hatch in the small intestine, the juvenile penetrates the small intestine and enters the circulatory system, and eventually the juvenile worm enters the lungs. In the lungs the juvenile worm leaves the circulatory system and enters the air passages of the lungs. The juvenile worm then migrates up the air passages into the pharynx where it is swallowed, and once in the small intestine the juvenile grows into an adult worm.

Yuk! Why do we keep swallowing it. Spit it out!

Why Ascaris undergoes such a migration through the body to only end up where it started is unknown.

Republican parasites also make circuitous journeys through policy causing a great deal of pain and harm as they do.

Ascaris infections in humans can cause significant pathology. The migration of the larvae through the lungs causes the blood vessels of the lungs to hemorrhage, and there is an inflammatory response accompanied by edema. The resulting accumulation of fluids in the lungs results in "ascaris pneumonia," and this can be fatal.

Republican parasites migrate into the halls of power inflaming the economy with swelling debt and causing widespread hemorrhage of our resources. This, too, can be fatal.

The large size of the adult worms also presents problems, especially if the worms physically block the gastrointestinal tract. Ascaris is notorious for its reputation to migrate within the small intestine, and when a large worm begins to migrate there is not much that can stop it. Instances have been reported in which Ascaris have migrated into and blocked the bile or pancreatic duct or in which the worms have penetrated the small intestine resulting in acute (and fatal) peritonitis.

Republican worms (especially the larger ones) are always obstructing something which is why the body politic has become so ill.

Ascaris seems to be especially sensitive to anesthetics, and numerous cases have been documented where patients in surgical recovery rooms have had worms migrate from the small intestine, through the stomach, and out the patient's nose or mouth.

As we now witness in Republican John McCainworm and Republican Sarah Palinworm.