Which means I won't be flying to Washington. But! But! There's an Amtrak station in Durham, so I can ride by train. Yes, it's a five hour trip; but I've always wanted to travel across America by rail. I'm slightly insane, but you knew that anyway...
I'm off to watch the State of The Union address. I need a good laugh.
Oh no. Ashcroft is the guy left behind. There's just no end to their evil. Even the Mayor would make a fairer President.
Hey boy...Hey ....Superstar Bush....Here We Go!
Soft-pitching it, I see: "we going to cut taxes, improve the economy, help fight the world's diseases...AND KICK THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF IRAQ!"
Has any President ever said "Actually, the state of the union is pretty ropey, and I'm really sorry about that" ?
The Departmeant of Homeland Security is mobilising. Excellent news. I take it that they've got the brown shirts ready, then? And the fancy helmets.
BWHAHAHAHAHA! "Our economy is improving"
It's back to trickle-down economics everybody. Because they worked so well in the 1980s, didn't they? They didn't saddle America with trillion-dollar levels of debt, oh no.
At the rate he's giving money back, shouldn't they just stop bothering to collect income tax? It'd be a lot easier.
People are crying.
PEOPLE ARE CRYING.
Um, explain why taxes on shares are unfair. Saying it in a silly voice doesn't make it true, you know.
Bueller? Bueller?
Okay, so Federal spending shouldn't rise above 4% each year. How's that going to play with a rather expensive fight in the Middle East.
Yay for the gutting of Social Security!
He's suggesting a National Health Service! High quality health for everybody! Oh no, he's against a nationalised service. To the end of my days, I will never understand why this country does not have a proper health system.
Energy independence! Gee, George, if you're so keen on the environment, why did you refuse to sign Kyoto?
$1.2 billion for hydrogen cars? Not bad.
Satanists for the homeless!
Well, that's just alienated all the non-Christians...
Roe vs. Wade? Its days are numbered.
Now for the fun part. Abroad! Confound the desires of evil men! Do you think he's going to...HANG ON! The problem with the lack of AIDS drugs in Africa is because the multinational companies charge extortionate prices for them, and the US is the major opponent of the compulsory patent licensing schemes that the Third World countries are turning towards.
Confronting EVIL! EVIL! EVIL!
We're winning! Yay! er...where's Osama? How come Kabul is the only Government-controlled area of Afghanistan? YEMEN! But we've killed some people, so YAY! CLAP!
American Justice! Where they put you in a prison without charge or trial? Or is that not what you meant?
Star Wars. Please. No. Make it stop. Look - missile-based interceptors just WILL NOT WORK. If the enemy has any sense, they will send enough decoys with the real missiles to render a missile shield useless...
Neverending WAR! Excellent news.
But, George, what about those nations that already have weapons of mass destruction? And let's be fair, didn't Russia and America bully each other during the Cold War?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! He's just described American foreign policy for the past fifty years. Didn't they install most of those generals and dictators?
He's going to do it for us, you know. I'm so grateful.
No-one else is allowed nuclear weapons. Sorry about that. Or do free nations get a pass...hold on...he's just said that they'll go it alone if necessary...oh dear...anyway, if Iraq was to say, hold a democratic free vote, and Saddam just happened to win, does that mean that they could have their nuclear programme?
STOP HITTING ON IRAN, OKAY? They're making progress, and every time you open your mouth it sets the progressive movements there back six months. And, wasn't Iran democratic before you toppled the regime and installed the Shah? Oh, yes it was.
Got that? You're not allowed nuclear ambitions. The club has closed. In the immortal words of Minnie Driver: "Y'can't come in."
And spies, George. Let's not forget the spies that were on that inspection team...
Iraq has no military capability, George. You know this. You know that one aircraft carrier in the Gulf could take out most of the Iraqi army. But scare stories. But what you're not saying is that most UN Inspectors don't believe that the chemical weapons that Iraq possessed could be viable after twelve years. BUT THEY DIDN'T GET THE URANIUM! That was the point of the British evidence! If if they were after that, then their weapons programmes weren't going according to plan, were they?
Do you have the slightest shred of evidence to back up these claims of scientist intimidation?
What? Saddam Hussein is not insane. If he was stupid enough to attack Israel, they would respond with their (illegally developed, but we'll let that pass) nuclear arsenal. If he attempted to use them on American troops, the NATO Doctrine would turn Iraq into a nuclear wasteland. I don't think he's the type to commit suicide.
This dictator, who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons, has already used them on whole villages - leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind, or disfigured. Iraqi refugees tell us how forced confessions are obtained - by torturing children while their parents are made to watch. International human rights groups have catalogued other methods used in the torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues, and rape.
Of course all this went on in the 1980s, when Iraq was funded with American money of course, but we'll skip over that, shall we?
Your enemy is not surrounding your country - your enemy is ruling your country. And the day he and his regime are removed from power will be the day of your liberation.
Rise up! This time we promise we won't wimp out on you! Honest!
We have a new deadline. February 5th, people!