W is thinking at the staff meeting looking at this 1972 payroll records:
I don't think I got back the tax they withdrew that year ... sure wish this fade-out technology was available before I turned 40 and I became a media creation and stuff ... you too, huh, Dick? ...
Monotone Dick: right, numbnuts ... whatever ... this should buy us time to get us through all the chicken-hawk references this week ... once our Osama-clone look-alike gets (gestures quotations with fingers) "caught" ... Faux and CNN have their talking points in hand ... none of this will matter .... we could ride elephants out of the convention into the Diebold voting booths ... get me Halliburton on the phone ...
(laughter, smirks fill the room)
Newly discovered payroll records from resident Duck Wad's 1972 National Guard service were released by the Pentagon Friday, July 23, 2004. The records shed no new light on the future president's activities during the summer months when Bush was working on the senatorial campaign of a family friend in Alabama. Like records released earlier by the White House, the newly released computerized payroll records show no indication Bush drilled with the Alabama unit during July, August and September of 1972. Pay records covering all of 1972, released previously, also indicated no guard service for Bush during those three months. (AP Photo/Dept. of Defense)