I sent Steve Taylor, the author of the article, this email.

This is a joke or a hoax, is it not - like the tongue-in-cheek articles in The Onion?

Anyone within driving distance of the Rio Grande would recognize this as a spoof, but it would help readers who don't get the joke if you would put "/sarc" at the end.

You may not be Jonathan Swift, but you do relate political satire with a straight face.