"Then read your liberal newspapers. You've got to be getting your liberal lies from somewhere. Your favorite president was a communist too. Roosevelt turned this country into a communist state, and people like George Bush have been trying to repair it ever since. That's why Larry and I go to tea parties."
"Tea Parties? Do you wear a triangular hat? And, Marie? Roosevelt tried to soften the depression by giving people jobs. Among other things those jobs built the Interstate Highway System. After the roads were built the automobile industry took off because Americans had highways to drive their cars on."
"Yeah, right David. He gave handouts to people by taxing the hell out of those with any money. And he didn't build a damn thing but a communist state. He was never anything but a big, fat liar, and if you'd listen to Glenn and Rush you'd know that."
"Marie? You should read a history book. And speaking of lies, Marie. Your hero Bush lied us straight into a pair of wars."
"Yes, he did. And do you know what would have happened if he hadn't?"
"Pray, tell."
"Saddam Hussein would be over her bombing our cities!"
"That would be horrible, Marie. But Iraq doesn't have any bombs or weapons of mass destruction, and their airplanes couldn't make it here when they still had a few. The war is about oil, and establishing a strategic position in the Middle East."
"Oh, for Christ's sake. Now I've heard it all. The war was about getting that monster who bombed the Twin Towers, and those Iraqi's are only getting what they deserve."
"You mean the million dead civilians who never heard of the Twin Towers, and wouldn't know what they were if they had seen them in broad daylight?"
"How can you be so naïve, David? Everyone knows the Arabs hate us. And everyone knows they bombed the Towers. Everyone but you, that is. And now you're telling me we shouldn't have taken their oil? For what they did?"
"Yup. It wasn't ours to take, and they didn"t bomb anything. You're all mixed up, Marie. The defense contractors, the oil companies and all their corporate lobbyists are the only real winners of the wars. The taxpayers got stuck with the bill, and have you noticed gas prices dropping back to prewar levels?"
"The lobbyists are all Americans, David. They bring the things that need doing to Congress so people like you don't turn America into a communist state."
"I don't know how to respond to that one, Marie."
"Oh, I bet you don't."
So, Marie. The idea of corporate lobbyists bribing Congress isn't real to you?"
