Bangor, MN—Sardines, a small fish in the herring family, are on the warpath—and by warpath we mean lined up in tightly regimented rows of obstructionism. Many of these scaly dissidents are protesting what they are calling inhumane conditions inside their tins.

One sardine said, “We’re packed in here like, like….um, like…uhhhhhh. I got nothin’.”

“I can’t even move my flippin’ fins,” said a second fish. “And I don’t think the guy next to me was properly eviscerated before he was canned, if you know what I mean.”

Critics are bristling. “This is another example of an entitled society under Democratic leadership,” said AM radio host, Rush Limbaugh. “I’ll bet Obama is going to hand them a pile of food stamps and let them all live in tin cans the size of the International Space Station. I’ll tell you who’s going to take it in the can on this one, the American tax payer, that’s who!”