OK, Here's Number 1

I sent this out to my victims on November 6th:

OK, I was united for America on Wednesday, November 3rd. I stopped being united on November 4th.

Bring America together my ass…

A week or two before the election the Kerry campaign cited a New York Times article about a private Bush meeting with big party donors where Dubya said the Social Security privatization was going to be one of the top items on the agenda in January. Bush's spokesman dismissed the charge that he favored privatization or benefit cutting as a "false, baseless attack."

On Thursday, November 4th, two days after the election, George announced his press conference that tax simplification and Social Security reform are at the top of his agenda - gosh, what a suprise.

Let me also predict that tax simplification will simplify the way for the rich to get richer and wage earners to continue to hang on by their fingernails. Probably we’re going to see some additional reductions in the rates on investment, interest, and capital gains income. Perhaps a Value Added Tax - that’s also a good deal for high earners and a bad deal for the little guys. Either way, the folks who inherited their money and hang out by the pool and tennis courts pay tax at a lower rate than the troops dying in Iraq.

I’m glad to see that the “moral values” that red-state America seems to love so much include lying and screwing the less fortunate.

Yup, then George also announced that he is reaching out to “people who share our goals,” not everyone, just those who “share our goals.” Interesting message there - I guess the rest of us can go Cheney ourselves if we don’t share the Bush administration goals: destruction of the environment, war on false pretenses, American gulags, tax cuts for fatcats, and let’s not forget the go-it-alone foreign “policy” that has earned us the contempt of the world. I could go on. Reaching out -hah!

Molly Ivins, my favorite rabble rousing Texas columnist wrote: “Some people think you cannot break a dog that has got in the habit of killin' chickens, but my friend John Henry always claimed you could. He said the way to do it is to take one of the chickens the dog has killed and wire the thing around the dog's neck, good and strong. And leave it there until that dead chicken stinks so bad that no other dog or person will even go near that poor beast. Thing'll smell so bad the dog won't be able to stand himself. You leave it on there until the last little bit of flesh rots and falls off, and that dog won't kill chickens again.”

She continues: “The Bush administration is going to be wired around the neck of the American people for four more years, long enough for the stench to sicken everybody. It should cure the country of electing Republicans.”

And finally: “And at least Democrats won't have to clean up after him until it is real clear to everyone who made the mess.”

Good on yer, Molly! And yes, I’m pissed!

OK, OK, after this, I’ll let it be for a while, I promise. Really! Swear to God!