Instead we have this incompetent boob who repeatedly has demonstrated a complete lack of skills suitable for the Presidency. He is, like in his previous Governorship and Business, leaving a wreck.

Repeatedly Bush has faced a situation, proclaimed that all is well - all is under control - and shown that quite the reverse is true.

9/11. Bush proclaim we will get the terrorists behind the event. It's bin Laden and al Qaeda behind it. Bush swears we'll get them but the evil doers are hiding in Afghanistan. No problem. We depose the Taliban since they won't help us. And we have bin Laden cornered...channel switch to...

Iraq. Hussein's WMDs are loaded and pointing at us. Bush swear this cannot and will not happen. He overrides the U.N. and gives a mandate to Hussein to hand over the WMDs or we will invade. Hussein says he has nothing to give over, that he has no WMDs. Bush says "Liar!!!" and we invade. 100 days later, Bush struts around on the deck of one of our mighty aircraft carrriers. "Mission accomplioshed!" he proclaims to a cheering throng of 100s. Years later, no WMDs have yet to be found (Hussein told the truth?!?), thousands of Americans lives wasted, billions of dollars wasted, hundreds of thousands or Iraqis arguably worse off than before, and Iraq on the brink of a civil war.

Katrina. Perhaps the perfect hurricane heading for New Orleans. Bush, Michael Brown of FEMA, and experts meet to discuss emergency contingincies. "We're ready!" proclaims Bush. But, as the storm destroyed New Orleans, it turns out that the U.S. Goverment wasn't ready.

The U.S. Government, under Bush's Administration, is never ready. Our troops weren't ready for Iraq. FEMA wasn't ready for Katrina.

Repeatedly Bush has shown that what he says and what he does rarely coincide except when it's for the benefit of his cronies. He and his Administration live in a fantasy world where everything they say and do are correct, moral, ethical, and in line with what the people need. They are drunk on their own power. The Democrats are too weak-willed to fight and the American people are either too stupid, too disgusted, and/or too numb to protest.

So let's do our own proclaiming: Fellow American Citizens - the American Government is no longer YOUR American Government. It is a corrupt tool of and for big business, of and for the Religious Zealots, of and for the Big Brother that we used to scoff at 25 years ago. It could never happen we used to say. It has happened.

But don't worry. Continue to stare at your consoles and hi-def TVs. Lose yourself in the mindless voids of Oprah, Phil, American Idol, and Survivor. Fear not that as you chase your next fix, as you are led by your eyes to the next dose of Media morphine, that your Government chips away at your privacy, at your savings, at your mind.

"Mission accomplished!!'