W is for Wimp
By Mikey Snot
05.03.03

Throughout campaign 2000, Bush’s camp was trying desperately to come up with an acronym that went with George’s middle initial “W”. We heard that it stood for “Winner”, although they actually never told us what he won besides two Governor elections in the southern state of Texas. Now that may sound impressive to some, but considering how much money was pored into his campaigns and how much control over the state his family and friends have, it really is not that impressive, in my opinion. Nor did they really focus on his record in Texas, which because of his cronyism policies has left that state in financial shambles. Did the media look into his actual “wins” in Taxes, I mean Texas? I think not, for if they did, a true journalist would have realized a pattern of corrupt business dealings that continue on a much larger scale in the White House. Today we have no bid government contracts going to Dick Cheney’s Halliburton, and James Bakers and George Herbert Walker Bush’s Carlyle Group. Did I mention the Bin Laden family’s connections to the Carlyle Group? That my friend is another chapter in the Bush family’s empire they would rather not discuss.

Actually, W was born in New Haven, Connecticut for what that’s worth but don't ask a Texan, or the average US citizen that, they all think he was born a good old boy in Texas. The way the mainstream media plays it; he is one of us, a regular hardworking Joe. A guy you would like to have a beer with, not that any sensible person would want to have a beer with a recovered alcoholic, but that is not who the Bush camp is pandering too. Not that the general public knows that W had a drinking problem or was involved with cocaine, possibly arrested for it, went AWOL during his daring Vietnam war service in the Texas Air National Guard, you know his youthful indiscretions as he puts it. Too bad our prisons are full of minority men guilty of youthful indiscretion, it is just they lack the wealth and family connections of George W. Bush. Yes, the “liberal media” was too busy during the campaign scrutinizing Al Gore’s color scheme or discussing whether he invented the Internet, inspired love stories or the famous “Kiss” for the debates. No, George Bush is NOT a winner. He has almost failed at every business he has been involved in, from Spectrum 7, to Harken Energy Corp where he received insider stock sales tips while on the board of directors and then failed to disclose the sale with federal regulators for over eight months. After the sale the stock plummeted but was bailed out by an investment by a Saudi businessman who wanted to gain favor from then President Bush, W’s father. When the SEC pretended to investigate these transactions under his dad’s administration, he was let off the hook by daddy’s cronies in the SEC. By the way, he was never truly investigated and the final decision by the SEC was that he was “not cleared of the charges”; it was that the SEC would not “investigate”. Nor do you hear of how he used his influence in using eminent domain laws to steal, I mean "buy" homes under market value at tax payers expense for the property to build a stadium for the Texas Rangers, inflating the teams net worth and then profiting heavily from such transactions.

And we had an investigation into Bill Clinton over Whitewater because….?

The media and his speechwriters also attempted others, such as “Wonderful”, and the incredulous “there are three W’s in World Wide Web”. I guess that was a subtle jab at Gore’s comment that was totally and unabashedly taken out of context by the “Liberal Media”, that he stated, “He invented the Internet”. After over two lackluster years in office, the economy has tanked, his Enron buddies at the helm of a trident Nuclear Submarine sank a Japanese fishing vessel killing 14 young men. We have the highest unemployment in over 30 years, a Dow Jones that dropped over 4000 points since his inauguration and I don’t even want to mention the NASDAQ. We were attacked on our home turf by terrorists of mostly Saudi descent, that our 80 billion-dollar a year military was unable to even intercept or attempt to confront one hijacked airplane. Meantime he was high tailing it out of harms way as he described it on Air Force One while real Americans were dying in the towers. The hijackers by the way was enabled by his fathers previous administration policies who helped train, arm and empower through our CIA (our tax dollars at work my friend) in their support of the Muhajeden in Afghanistan against the Soviets in the 1980’s, and financed by Saudi connections. I could go on and on but I digress. So, in honor of “Loyalty Day” I offer these acronyms that I believe are more fitting, for Governor George Bush.

W is for Woeful. Woeful was the way the Bush and his administration tried to link Iraq to 9/11 to justify an invasion and subsequent occupation. Woeful was the overstated and exaggerated evidence presented to the UN Security Council, which was systematically proven false by scrutinizing foreign governments. The use of falsified data, ambiguous aerial surveillance photos of trucks leaving compounds with “Weapons of Mass Destruction”. The plagiarized Intelligence Reports complete with misspelling of Iraq’s weapons from a 1990’s Southern California graduate student’s thesis.

I am sorry, but when you have to go this far to TRY and provide justification for a war with the Iraqi people to “GIT” Saddam Hussien, then you are truly evil.

W is for Witless. This is a man who had very little worldly knowledge and has rarely stepped into another country before he was selected president. I guess that is only a bad characteristic if you are a presidential hopeful with a “D” in front of your party affiliation. Once again, where was the “Liberal Media” pointing this out? Oh, that is right, they were to busy burying the news that he was arrested for drunk driving and then lied to the citizens of Texas during his campaigning for governor, about his true arrest record. But of course he doesn’t want to engage in the “Politics of Personal Destruction”, unless of course it is directed at Al Gore. His first trip through Europe was a farce. W’s indignant attitude and smug demeanor was an embarrassment to this nation far beyond the “Blue Dress”. One German newspaper ran a front-page article with a blank faced Bush with an empty comment bubble with the headlines “The President Speaks”. I guess Europe knows the characteristics of a fascist when they see one.

W is for Weasel. George Bush spent over 5 million dollars to have a staged press rally in his declaration that the war in Iraq was “over”, on the decks of a US aircraft carrier. An event which could have easily and more cost effectively had it been staged on land. Can you say campaign 2004? Dressed in flight gear he waves and smirks for the camera, pretending he is Tom Cruz from “Top Gun”. Are we supposed to buy that he had anything to do with this self-declared victory over Saddam Hussien? I ask, is this war really over? As long as there are people dying and bombs are going off in Iraq and Saddam is still free, this war IS NOT over Mr. Bush. Can I ask one question, what happened to Osama Bin Laden? Did we bring democracy to Afghanistan, Mr Bush? Last I heard, the warlords and drug dealers that the US taxpayer helped arm are ruling the countryside outside of Kabul and that the women are still wearing burkas, and any attempt to open schools that teach young girls are being harassed and bombed out of existence. George Bush, why don’t you address the millions of American’s that protested and opposes this war?

W is for Windbag. You were full of hot air when you embraced the firemen at ground zero after the WTC towers collapsed and declared that your were going to “Git” the planners of the attack. You are full of hot air when you demand of every American to “Support the Troop” and brand anyone who disagrees with the war Unpatriotic and Un-American. I guess supporting the troop means tying a yellow ribbon around a tree or waving a US flag in everyone’s face but it does not mean extending or updating veterans services and benefits. I guess it doesn’t mean allowing homeland security personnel the option of unionizing, like the police or firemen. I guess being patriotic now means shut-up, don’t ask questions, buy duct tape and plastic sheeting and listen to Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. Birds of a feather flock together my grandmother always stated.

W is for Wily. Wily is George Bush whenever bad press arises in the Bush camp. Every time a US diplomat resigns in disgust over US foreign policy, or another political donor pleads guilty for cooking the books at their company, gets accused of having sex with a minor. Look out for terror alerts to be raised based on unsubstantiated reports from someone being held as an enemy combatant in Gitmo Prison, to divert the attention. When the economy was tanking and Osama was nowhere to be found, the new “Bad Guy” became Saddam Hussien. The Bush War Brigade used UN resolution 1441 as substantiation to invade Iraq for failing to abide by the rules of disarmament, but quickly changed to “he has weapons of mass destruction” and is planning on using them on the US. The world demanded that the UN restart the weapons inspections in Iraq before to justify invasion but when the UN didn’t find any it became “to liberate the Iraqi people”. Yeah, we liberated them all right, of life and limb. So when the UN didn’t pan out and wouldn’t back the invasion of a sovereign nation, the Bush camp just deemed the UN “insignificant”, and against world wide pressure invaded any ways. Today they are trying to “legitimize” their occupation of Iraq in the UN. Bush and his bunch are a real piece of work; they give new meaning to organized crime.

W is for Wuss. Yes I know it is just a slang term for wimp, but what do you call a guy that is afraid to field a question from an eighty-year-old White House female press reporter? Breaking a forty-year tradition, in his completely staged and scripted press conference he failed to answer a question from Helen Thomas. Helen who is sharp, as knife would have clearly asked an objective question to Mr. Bush about his true motives in the war on Iraq. Instead she was seated in the back row, as Ari Fliesher made sure all the other puppy press stayed with the script. This guy is so embolden that he even joked that this event was “scripted” much to the delight of all present and an outrage to those with IQ’s larger than their belt size that happen to be watching this farce. Most of the questions were lightweight and mostly involved pandering to Mr Bush’s ego. Change the station honey, I have seen this movie before, it was called “Dumb and Dumber”.

W is for War. So far the only thing the guy is good at doing. Winning, well that we will just have to wait and see, but from his track record, I wouldn’t hold your breath.

W is for Warmongering. When it comes to actually stringing three or more sentences together without pausing, which are a break for the scripted clapping, the guy is a stuttering Stanley. But when the topic is WAR, we have a regular Tom Swift for president. When the subject comes to death, maiming, bombing, and ground assaults the guy is practically foaming at the mouth with excitement. War all the time is his best policy, meanwhile daddy is getting rich with Carlyle so W better start working on getting the inheritance tax removed, but he will call it the Death Tax, because it has a better ring to it.

W is for Whiner. Flash back four years ago and the Republicans were blocking everything and anything that had Bill Clinton’s name on it. They complain today that there are more than 8 of 18 federal court nominations waiting for over a year for a hearing and that neo-con revisionist trash Bush puts forward are being blocked through legal means such as filibusters by the Democratic congress. Now he is whining that the Dem’s are trying to block two of his nominations of Estrada and Owens, of who have already been voted down. Bush called the process a “disgrace”. So in true neo-con fashion they threatened to change the rules of the Senate to get his conservative friends steam rolled through the Senate. What the Republicans don’t seem to remember is that they are guilty of the same thing. This party has become so “Drunk with Power” with controls of almost every arm of our government they are trying to change the rules in their favor. Whine on George W, whine on.

Well I am running out of acronyms for W, but what the heck, I will throw in the Dixie Chick subject for good measure. The Dixie Chick made a comment recently in the UK that has left the lobotomized minions of our society in a tizzy. For some reason the Dixie Chicks 14 or so words have been scrutinized more than any George Bush policy or George Bush verbal faux pas in his entire political career. Natalie Maines was commenting on how she was critical of W and his policies at a recent concert and used the word “embarrassed”. I am sorry if you are from Texas and you are not embarrassed, and then please explain to us why you are not. Also, in one hundred words or less tell us what achievement you are proud of that Mr. Bush has anything to do with. Country music stations stopped playing their music, attempts at boycotting their recent tour have had mixed results. The media once again stumbling over themselves to prop this boy emperor up and run to his defense have stated that because they spoke out, their careers are being ruined. It is reported that their record sales have suffered and “plummeted” on the charts. If dropping from no, 1 to no. 3 is plummeting, what word would you use to describe if it dropped out of the top ten? By the way, they are back at number one at the time of the writing of this rant, and have been in the top ten for over 40 weeks. Not only that but Diane Sawyer tried to vilify them in an hour long interview, with questions that mainly involved getting them to give an apology to the president, no matter how many different ways Diane worded them, they held firm. Way to go girls, you have gained a new fan, both for your music and attitudes. I just wish I could afford a front row ticket to your concert. Wink, wink.

Finally, in my opinion W stands for wimp. So far the guy has been stood down by an actual threat to our way of life when our spy plane was crashed into over the Sea of Japan and had to make an emergency landing in China, his only concern was whether they had bibles. I guess he didn’t have much faith in his diplomacy in negotiating their release. North Korea is waving a nuclear threat in our face telling W to knock the battery of off their shoulders and his response is to “Use Diplomacy”. I guess it is easier to attack a country that has been oppressed by the world for over ten years and whose means to defend them has been completely limited by UN sanctions. He picks on the French, poor women on welfare, Arabs living in caves, hungry Iraqis living under a dictatorship that his family and friends profited off of for over twenty years and the Dixie Chicks. He has withdrawn from the Kyoto Agreement, threatened to start up nuclear testing and has cut almost every regulatory and social service budget for this war. With his republican members in full control of the news that we get he and his neo-cons are running roughshod over the rule of law in the name of “Homeland Security” and laughing all the way to the bank. When will he step up to the plate and be held accountable by our so-called “Liberal Media”? Don’t hold your breath.

This was supposed to be a work in progress, I will try adding links and more comments as the Governor pretending to play president, connives his way through the rest of his term as president his cronies stole. Again.


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