July 29: The new winner

The winner:

"Welcome to Area 51 Trillion!"

-- Bart Sullivan of Austin, Tex.

The runners-up:

"This is no fun, they are already destroying themselves!"

-- Steven A. Meckker, Charlotte

"This toxic environment will never sustain life."

-- Laura Thompson, Charlotte

"Not only does it not fly, it barely ever moves."

-- Lou Desser, Indian Land, S.C.

"Sorry, there is no leader here."

-- With variations, from many, many readers

"There are no signs of intelligent life."

-- With variations, from multitudes of readers

Lots of great captions this week made it hard to pick a winner.  Thank you for all your entries.  Here's a selection of some of the other better lines we received:

"Women are from Venus, men are from Mars, but I have no idea where they found these guys."

"I guess it is going to take some true Washington outsiders to get this job done."

"They called us because they couldn't get local financing."

"Their warped drive won't help us."

"They've really raised the debt ceiling this time."

"That's their mothership, it runs on hot air."

"Yes, a nice location, but China is set to close on it next week."

"Their debt ceiling is out of this world."

"No wonder E.T. went home."

"They should welcome visitors from Pluto.  After all, it's a plutocracy."

"It figures! We made great time across the entire universe only to find the worst gridlock here in Washington."