If Bush Jr. is Scrooge, then Bush Sr. should be Jacob Marley

[wcepler]

If Bush Jr. is Scrooge, then Bush Sr. should be Jacob Marley

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Bush Sr.: Son, I have finally understood that rampant greed is a sin.


Bush Jr.: But I listen to a higher father who says greed is a virtue.


Bush Sr.: No, no, no! My lifetime has shown me that limitless avarice necessitates lying to the American people, which is contemptible and unpatriotic.


Bush Jr.: But my higher father says the end justifies ANY means.


Bush Sr.: And just what is your end in Iraq?


Bush Jr.: Iraq (and I can't understand why you don't already know this) is my Christian Crusade to kill off the Muslims . . . and appropriate their godless oil in the process.


Bush Sr.: But what about Iraqi children.


Bush Jr.: "Collateral damage". Yawn.


Bush Sr.: But what about all our young soldiers who are being massacred at ever greater rates.


Bush Jr.: You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. Yawn.


Bush Sr.: Tell me son, just between you and me, you don't REALLY believe in all that Armageddon crap, do you? You know, the Baptist Big Bang.


Bush Jr.: Get thee behind me Satan!


Bush Sr.: Hmmm. Son, how many fingers am I holding up?


Bush Jr.: Uh . . .


Bush Sr.: Well, let me try a different tack. You know your clerk Bob Cratchit is virtually your slave. Doesn't that bother you?


Bush Jr.: Is that his name? I just thought he was a subhuman centrist, and who better to clean out a multimillionaire’s commode?


Bush Sr.: I now doubt this will go very far, but did you know he has a crippled child, Tiny Tim, who is almost certainly going to die fairly quickly if he doesn't receive some medical help -- maybe from embryonic stem cell research?


Bush Jr.: Tiny Tim, huh? Is he a Palestinian?


Bush Sr.: No, he's just a suffering little boy without political connections.


Bush Jr.: Sounds like a Palestinian to me.


Bush Sr.: Sigh! Georgie Porgie, I was going to send 3 spirits to see you tonight. I thought they might help you to avoid the abyss, but now I realize that it would be an absurd waste of their time.


Bush Jr.: Are they white?


Bush Sr.: Oh my goodness . . . goodnight, Georgie Porgie. And good luck America!


Bush Jr.: Jeez, creeping Alzheimer’s'.


Tiny Tim: God bless us all every one.


God: . . . get serious.

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W.Christopher Epler


And Merry Christmas to my extended liberal/progressive family!!!