Dear Lame Duck President Bush

7 February 2005

Dear Lame Duck President Bush:

Wow what a budget. You are not letting the fact that you only have 1442 days and 4 hours left in office slow down your bold approach to government. More money for war and suppressing civil rights within the US, less money for farmers, literacy, health care for the poor, literacy and education. I am so pleased to see that you are not looking at any radical ideas like making the wealthy pay their share of taxes. I would like to suggest an advertising slogan to support this budget.

No Billionaire War Profiteer Left Behind. Every Poor Child Compassionately Abandoned in the Gutter.

Keep up the good work, man you are a gem.

Nic Rossouw

Dear Mr. Bush

6 February 2005

Dear Mr. Bush:

I have been remiss in not writing to congratulate you on your electoral success in November. You must know how busy the Christmas; New Year and flu seasons are for average citizens being such a man of the people yourself (if it weren’t for your Ivy League upbringing, multi-million dollar wealth and oh so phony Texas twang, we would confuse you for an average Joe). I think that you have followed up that victory with several masterstrokes that now leave you in unique territory as a US President. In particular your staff is beyond compare. I hope you realize that several of your senior people need special recognition.

Karl Rove: your campaign proves that the US finally has a propagandist greater than Joseph Goebbels http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/goebbels.html .

Condoleezza Rice: I don’t think that any historians ever thought that there could be a Secretary of State who was more ethically challenged and in love with war than the incredibly still un-indicted war criminal, Henry Kissinger www.eclipse.net/~tgardnet/kiss/kisskill.html . Once again, you proved them wrong. I am still chuckling at her rant this week against the “un-elected Moooolahs in Iran”. What a delicious use of irony from a woman who has never been elected to anything.

Alberto Gonzalez: It seemed inconceivable that you could select anyone more inappropriate than John Ashcroft http://www.unitedstatesgovernment.net/ashcroftinsane.htm for Attorney General. However, it looks like Alberto Gonzalez might be that person. Who cannot feel safer now that the US’s chief law enforcer is someone that believes that all forms of interrogation “short of those leading to death or organ failure” are acceptable and should not be considered torture? Who better to carry on Ashcroft’s legacy of indefinite detention of prisoners at Guantanmo Bay without ever filing charges or giving them access to any legal recourse?

Thanks for the laughs,

Nic Rossouw