Is the NY Post comparing Obama to a chimp?

Here's the cartoon from today's paper:

Notes Sam Stein at the Huffington Post:

At its most benign, the cartoon suggests that the stimulus bill was so bad, monkeys may as well have written it. Most provocatively, it compares the president to a rabid chimp. Either way, the incorporation of violence and (on a darker level) race into politics is bound to be controversial.