Shut Off the Lights at the Whitehouse
Author: Stephen
DeVoy
As Democrats pretend to take steps to stop Mad George's orgy of death, Bush
has made it clear that he will send more Americans to their deaths whether or
not Congress will finance the slaughter. Given the Democratic Party's
historical lack of guts, we can assume that once Mad George sends our young to
Iraq, Congress will provide the funds. After all, no one wants to be
responsible for leaving our young to die of starvation in war, no matter how
unpopular that war. Bush knows this.
However, their are other ways the Democrats could send the message home
should Bush insist upon sending more soldiers to Iraq. A creative Congress
could find many ways to exert the same kind of existential power over Bush that
Mad George insists upon exerting over the American people. For example,
Congress could start by cutting off all funding to the Secret Service which is
used to protect Bush and his family. Next, Congress could cut off all
funding for Air Force One, its pilots and maintenance crews, its fuel and all of
the many things costing us many millions of dollars per year to keep the mad man
flying.
Why stop there? Congress could cut off all funding of the
Whitehouse. Bush could learn to live without heat, electricity, opulent
food, personal service, secretaries, and the telephone. I'm sure it costs
quite a bit to keep the Whitehouse roads clear of snow and ice - cut it
off! Cut all funding to the fleet of helicopters the Marines provide to
shuttle the mad man above the lowly populous who hate him with every shred of
their being and let him walk about the Capital on his own two feet - alone, like
the rest of us. Yank the security details from Crawford. Scrap
funding for those parts of the Capital Police responsible for the area around
the Whitehouse! Make Laura walk to the grocery store and carry the Bush
family's groceries home in one of those two wheeled carts poor American seniors
drag down the sidewalks.
All of this should be done while the Bush twins cavort around South
America. Let them wake up in their hotel rooms with the Secret Service
withdrawn, like American soldiers left unfunded on the battlefield in
Iraq. Stick it to the parasites! Congress has this power. Why
don't they use it?