{"id":456,"date":"2009-01-13T15:33:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T19:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=456"},"modified":"2009-01-16T11:53:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T15:53:11","slug":"farewell-to-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/01\/13\/farewell-to-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"An Alpha-Political Farewell to Bush and Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2004 I summed up George Bush’s first term in my Alpha Politics.<\/a> So it seems only appropriate to do the same for the Bush-Cheney second term. (Most of the links point to one of my satirical posts on the topic.)<\/p>\n

A is for Jack Abramoff<\/a> who’s big in pay-to-play.<\/p>\n

B’s for greedy bankers<\/a> who have fleeced the USA.<\/p>\n

C is for Sen. Craig<\/a> who isn’t gay, except in bed.<\/p>\n

D is for democracy<\/a> which Dubya hasn’t spread.<\/p>\n

E’s for the economy<\/a> which George and Dick destroyed.<\/p>\n

F’s for filibuster.<\/a> You need merely say the “woid”. <\/p>\n

G’s for Giuliani<\/a> who is 9-1-1 obsessed. <\/p>\n

H is for hypocrisy<\/a> — the right-wing does it best.<\/p>\n

I is for impeachment<\/a> which Bush\/Cheney sure deserve.<\/p>\n

J’s for Joe The Plumber<\/a> — right-wing symbol. What a nerve!<\/p>\n

K is for Ms. Kennedy,<\/a> the would-be New York Sen. <\/p>\n

L is for Joe Lieberman,<\/a> the worst of traitor men. <\/p>\n

M’s for John McCain<\/a> who zigged and zagged till he was hoarse. <\/p>\n

N is for Ralph Nader<\/a> who is still without remorse.<\/p>\n

O is for O’Reilly<\/a> — shuts up those who disagree.<\/p>\n

P is for Gov. Palin<\/a> who has “saved” the GOP.<\/p>\n

Q is for the air quotes<\/a> placed by John on mother’s “health.”<\/p>\n

R is for recession<\/a> — say goodbye to all your wealth.<\/p>\n

S is for Gov. Spitzer.<\/a> Prostitution did him in.<\/p>\n

T is for the terrorists,<\/a> now savoring their win. <\/p>\n

U is for the USA,<\/a> on life support right now.<\/p>\n

V is for the victor.<\/a> Prez Obama take a bow.<\/p>\n

W’s for the White House<\/a> left by Bush in disarray.<\/p>\n

X is for the X’ing<\/a> out of Bush regs any day.<\/p>\n

Y’s for “Yes, we can,”<\/a> Barack Obama’s sanguine creed.<\/p>\n

And Z’s for right-wing zealots<\/a> who methinks are off their feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in 2004 I summed up George Bush’s first term in my Alpha Politics. So it seems only appropriate to do the same for the Bush-Cheney second term. (Most of the links point to one of my satirical posts on the topic.) A is for Jack Abramoff who’s big in pay-to-play. B’s for greedy bankers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,21,8,20,7,3,9,17],"tags":[437,439,438,344,348,2761],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dick-cheney","category-election-satire","category-george-bush","category-gop-humor","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-white-house","tag-bush-administration","tag-dick-cheney-humor","tag-george-bush-satire","tag-mccain-campaign","tag-obama-verse","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}