"Out Of The Blue" -- Since King George XLIII thinks it's perfectly acceptable to listen in on our telephone conversations and read our e-mails, then we are well within our rights to read his mail...

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DEAR GEORGE,
I just wanted to drop a note and get you caught up on how real folks are feeling.

For six years now you’ve been telling us to “trust” you.

Yet, since being hoisted up onto the Republican banner as its poster boy of “Privileged Illusive Governance” (PIG) in 2000, there’s been nary a moment when you weren’t in total deception mode.

After failing at virtually every endeavor in your boozy, sheltered life – starting as a kid by blowing up small critters with fireworks; then moving on to barely-passing grades in college (purchased with wealth accumulated from Grandpa Prescott’s World War II Nazi bank deals); sloughing through one business disaster after another, again financed by misbegotten family fortunes; inability to get up enough votes in your “home” district even for Karl Rove to “win” you a seat in Congress; until as governor you completely messed up Texas in just five years – Karl Rove was somehow able to maneuver your sorry posterior into the White House.

It’s not like you were legally and honestly elected. By 2000 Karl had his subterfuge machine perfected, with ample ability to bury the guy who should have won the primary. Everyone knows how John McCain was smeared with more than enough lies and innuendo to put you in front.

Spurious George, who hid out inside of whisky bottles while Senator-to-be McCain suffered for more than five years in the Hanoi Hilton, had the unmitigated gall to drag this good man, and his family, through the most vile of unsubstantiated accusations.

And in the name of Jesus Christ, no less… Glory Hallelujah!

Your continual iteration of being saved by faith in the Lord has never resonated with any note of genuine sincerity.

Then, I’ve never observed the least modicum of sincerity in you at any time, no matter what the issue.

Yet, somehow, people buy your down-home, good ol’ boy horseshit act.

Why is it that so many otherwise nice folks, millions of whom like you had never ventured beyond U.S. borders yet unlike you could not even begin to imagine your level of wealth and privilege, turned to you as a “leader?”

I can understand the white tie elitists getting behind you. Their interests are pure selfish greed -- monetary and power-based -- fulfilled by your regime as though those were the only citizens in the Nation.

But your “brain,” Herr Oberst Karl Rove, manipulated a massive fixation on your rebirth in Christianity to sucker the homespun types into thinking you were one of them.

George, you wouldn’t know how to be a regular guy if somebody gave you a six-week course. For starters, regular guys aren’t cheerleaders in college.

Everything about you is an act. You’re not a real Texan; you were born in Connecticut.

How come you’re the only Bush brother with a pronounced drawl? Hell, yours is so phony you sound like you’ve spent your entire existence in a trailer park somewhere around Happy.

You never had to apply for a job, then through the interview and selection process – Daddy made sure there were never any obstacles.

What made you think for one second you were presidential material?

Oh, yeah, that gigantic ego of yours, that snotty frat boy attitude wherein you consider yourself better than everyone else.

Your insufferable hubris shows through in every photo, in every meeting with other world leaders, in every speech, in every “edict” you demand from Congress.

This Nation had stood strong and great for 224 years before Herr Rove and Company arranged the election of 2000 be hijacked for you and Dick Cheney. Well, they Shanghaied it for Cheney and the Republican Party; like I said at the top, you were just the poster boy.

When all the chips were on the table, the ace came out of the RNC’s sleeve – William Rehnquist paid Ronald Reagan, your Old Man, and the rest of the Republican Good Ol’ Boys Club back by illicitly installing you as faux president.

Immediately thereafter you began your stratagem to dismantle the American middle class and our way of life by holding secret meetings with economists, plus your energy and oil cronies.

So sure were your handlers of electoral victory that Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz had cooked up the plot for Total World Domination even before Election Day.

In an early show of who’s side the Lord is on, new Attorney General John Ashcroft was allowed to denigrate the labors of man’s God-given talents by covering works of art in Federal buildings, paid for with taxpayer dollars, because he did not approve of displaying the human body in public.

During the past five years the Federal Communications Commission has run roughshod over 1st Amendment Rights of Freedom of Expression of Broadcasters; reporters have been subjected to arrests and jailings, forced to provide notes and give up sources; teachers have been fired for merely saying the word “peace”; schoolchildren as young as six-years-old have been handcuffed for minor infractions, older students have been suspended because they spoke out of turn in class.

You were warned of the possibility of a major terrorist incident early into your reign, yet chose to ignore the reports.

Or perhaps there was more to it, something worse.

You used that “attack” to begin a systematic dictatorial rule which appeared security-focused on its face, but in reality comes much nearer a Theocratic, tyrannical oligarchy.

Not once in the entire time since your cabal usurped power have you or anyone in your regime acted at the behest of the majority of the people.

You lied about 9/11, covering up the true facts by allowing the wreckage of the World Trade Center to be packed up and shipped off in record time, for smelting in China and elsewhere. At the biggest damned crime scene in American history every precept of forensic science had been ignored – the evidence was never given proper examination.

And, where in the hell were you that day? I mean, after the seven minutes you sat doing nothing with the second graders. How convenient that you were visiting brother Jeb’s state of Florida, far from the action and able to skirt any scrutiny.

What happened to Cheney for those three or four days?

You sent the absolute top of the top U.S. Forces to catch Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, blaming him as the person behind the four airliners that were hijacked. Somehow, he was not, and has yet to be, captured.

Our Nation was given a world-class black eye by invading Iraq with unsubstantiated proof of “weapons of mass destruction.” Even if Saddam Hussein had been in possession of such armaments, it’s laughable to think he would have a missile system capable of reaching the U.S.

You knew that was a crock; so did most of the rest of the World, whose leaders censured the illegal invasion.

Then, you tried to back-end that garbage by concocting a tale of Saddam acting in cahoots with Osama.

When that didn’t sprout wings, George, you went for the humanitarian side issue of how horrible Saddam is – he kills his own people and denies them their rights – and it’s our place to bring proper democracy to the Middle East.

First, it is not the responsibility of the United States to change regimes, using bombs and bullets as incentives for people to vote. Second, you’ve murdered far more Iraqis than Saddam ever did, in a mere percentage of the time.

Third, you, yourself, have been responsible for the denial of rights of numerous Americans and people on our soil, as well as the callous disregard for the laws and Constitution of our Nation – which are your sworn duty to uphold.

Need I mention the Geneva Convention; the Military Code of Conduct; and basic attendance toward humanity?

You’re perfectly okay with the torture of prisoners, held in captivity and incommunicado for incalculable amounts of time, as outlined by Alberto Gonzales, whom you’ve promoted to Attorney General, and Brett Kavanaugh, whom you wish to promote to a lifetime appointment on the D.C. Appellate Court.

I wonder, George, WWJD?

But, you’re the one who knows better in that regard, considering God told you to invade Iraq when He visited you in the White House Rose Garden. Yeah, I know, as King of Planet Earth, “God talks through you.”

Lies, or delusion, George?

When you faced another decorated VietNam war veteran in the 2004 presidential election, Herr Karl dredged up the Swift Boat Prevaricators to cast doubt upon his service record. Rovian strategy made it seem like the guy who went to war was less capable of protecting us from your shadow enemy than you, who hid under the bed rather than face combat.

Most folks doubt the accuracy of the vote counting in that election, too.

As a leader, your sole accomplishment has been scuttling our great Nation into an abyss of wrack and ruin. There is not one single positive accomplishment I can think of to come out of your five wasted years in office.

Meanwhile the economy, despite your rosy depiction, really sucks.

Ask any GM or Ford employee. Ask most factory workers.

Just ask anyone with monthly bills to meet.

Heating fuel and electricity costs are sky high and climbing.

Each trip to the supermarket costs more than the last one.

It should not cost $50.00 for 15 gallons of gas!

But, as always you’ll blame these messes on everyone else, despite having a loyal GOP House.

Still, you and Condoleezza Rice and your other mouthpieces continue to intone the daily mantra of “trust us.”

The American people, as well as World leaders and the citizens of the Planet, do not trust you.

We cannot trust you. None of us can afford to trust you.

We all value life too much.

You went AWOL when Katrina hit New Orleans; you have yet to satisfactorily deal with its aftermath.

It caught you off guard when the story surfaced that you had ordered secret intrusions upon Americans’ telephone and Internet communications. Your response was a tap dance assuring us it was only traffic between several thousand select U.S.-based lines and suspected al Qaeda numbers overseas.

Only a hardcore Bush Republican would have bought your routine.

Or a complete moron.

Then, we learned that thousands of millions of telephone communications – land lines, cell phones, dial up IPs, fax machines – were being cross-referenced in the biggest compilation of electronic data ever amassed.

You tried to tell us “trust us,” we’re not trolling for individual calls or listening in on private conversations. We’re looking for al Qaeda operatives and cells.

Now, you want the architect of this massive secret project collecting electronic data on as many Americans as possible elevated to head of the CIA.

George, either you’re a lunatic, or you think the rest of us are all insane.

There is absolutely no justification for you, as ersatz president, wanna-be King, functioning under the Fuhrerprinzip and making up the rules as you go along, to be compiling this data. If there were, you would not have done an end run around the Court System.

The incalculable plethora of malfeasance you could accomplish with this wellspring of information and the potential effects rise to levels that leave the mind desensitized. The very fact that you have access to such records turns my marrow to ice.

Since you want so badly for us to trust you, why do you repeatedly refuse to operate within the laws? What have you got against working within the framework of the system, including the Legislative and Judicial Branches as governmental partners, not adversaries?

What have you got against the U.S. citizens that you repeatedly equivocate?

You love to invoke the words “Democracy” and “The Constitution,” don’t you, George. These are sacred in the annals of humankind.

However, when coming from you and your jackals these are code words for the loss of Freedoms, Security, and Lives.

For no reason are you ever to be trusted; time and again your plans have proven to not be plans at all, rather plots of selfish greed – often with nefarious undertones.

The “evildoers,” as you choose to call them, are not all around us – they nested deep inside us. The most frightening, dangerous “evildoers” I know about are you and your deceptive, greed-infested, honor-challenged Fascist Regime!

Pity the millions of poor saps who buy your “New Redeemer” crap, and can’t admit the error of their ways.

Now that your poll numbers have sunk nearly as low as whale feces, (to which you don’t pay attention, because you couldn’t care less what the American people think), you send out wife Laura and Herr “Turd Blossom” to lay some groundwork before you interrupt America’s evening relaxation.

Both of them, going out and publicly commenting on how the people they meet like you and tell them what a great job you’re doing – but the war is bringing him down – is really sad, George. This reeks like two lumps of Limburger: One might just get the impression these are scripted talking points; if not, then they’re proof that the only people Bush insiders talk to are Bush supporters.

And, why in the hell is Rove making a policy speech, anyway? Isn’t he off the White House staff?

Hello? George? Illegal Mexicans and South Americans are not high on our priority list. One more smoke and mirrors routine isn’t going to divert our attention from all the other manure you, Karl, the Dick, Rummy and Condi have been spreading.

You, George W. Bush, are blight upon God’s own Earth, a stench upon America.

You have besmirched us, the American people; you are responsible for sullying our reputation as “good neighbors” toward the rest of the Global Community.

To put it in Texan, you are one nasty polecat.

George, next time you look in the mirror see if you can find the serial killer with the most notches currently on the Planet.

Shalom,
Jerry

P.S./ Do y’all think you might consider quitting in the next, say, month or so, you know, like your “buddie” Tom DeLay, and save us the cost and embarrassment of having to impeach your sorry butt?

(This column appeared in THE LONE STAR ICONOCLAST, Crawford, Texas, and at www.LoneStarIcon.com the week of May 22, 2006.)

© 2006, The Lone Star Iconoclast

Authors Website: www.lonestaricon.com

Authors Bio:
An erstwhile Philosopher and sometime Educator, Jerry Tenuto is a veteran of seven years service in the U.S. Army. He holds a BS and MA in Broadcast Communications from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. For two decades Jerry filled the airwaves with rock, roll and banter as a disc jockey -- until greed, the rebirth of payola, and de-Reaganlation ruined that medium. Depending upon your taste in political stew, you can either blame or thank Jerry for his weekly "Out Of The Blue" feature in THE LONE STAR ICONOCLAST, Crawford, Texas, www.LoneStarIcon.com -- because somebody from that community has to do the world right.