Maybe this is what happens when you go from the minority to the majority.

The Onion, a popular weekly satirical newspaper full of fake stories – think “The Daily Show” in print – has an op-ed piece this week supposedly (but not really) written by U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan.

The fake commentary is titled “People Always Hate Politicians Until They Need One.”

“Let me tell you: It’s not all being wined and dined by lobbyists and joking around with my pals on the floor, you know,” the fake Moore writes.

“It’s long hours and hard work. But whenever I go home and do a little fundraising, all I hear is: ‘Shouldn’t you be back in Washington earning your six-figure salary?’ And you know whose in-box is filled with fawning e-mails the next morning when someone needs to get a last-minute clause attached to an appropriations bill before it gets out of the House Committee On Ways And Means? Mine. The ‘sleazy’ politician’s. That’s right, me.”

The real congressman was taking the satire in stride on Wednesday.

“It was a nice surprise,” said Rebecca Black, his spokeswoman. “It made our day.”