Well, the flow of the cartoon is a review (with Rahm as the foil) of all the good things he has done for the people and his friends; as well as alluding to how in-touch he is with the people, etc.
Then, the ‘poignant curve’, is that he and she are willing to spend untold 10’s of thousands of taxpayer dollars to settle a bet as to where Michelle left a compact back at their residence in Chicago.
The First Couple care not a whit about the American people.
Oh. At first, I couldn’t find the cartoon snippet that you used. Now I see it’s from a partial frame at the end of a long (aka Sunday) Day By Day from Chris Muir...