A twig off the old Bush
George W. Bush is a success.
He wanted to be just like his daddy, and he has succeeded -- and then some.
He is "president," although, true, he needed a little help from his friends (Jeb, Katherine Harris, five members of the U.S. Supreme Court, et. al.) to get there. Hey, we all need a little help now and then.
But Gee Dubya's work wasn't over in November 2000. No, siree; he had a lot of work to do to fill papa's shoes.
There's Iraq, of course, the crown jewel of the second Bush presidency. Baby Bush fought for months to get his Gulf War II, even using forged documents to make his "case." Hey, whatever it takes to get the job done!
His frequent temper tantrums over Iraq wore down Congress, which finally gave him permission to all right all right just shut up already and go ahead and play with his toy soldiers in the sandbox. When the party-pooping United Nations' Security Council was about to tell Junior no, he couldn't go play with his toy soldiers in the sandbox, he gave them the middle finger and did it anyway with his "coalition of the willing" (the United States, Great Britain and a few other nations too terrified to say no to the American Empire).
Bush Baby fought tirelessly for Gulf War II, but he's not pooped! Bring them on!
How proud Papa Bush must have been when he picked up the newspaper today and read on the front page:
The U.S. combat death toll in Iraq hit a disheartening milestone [today] as the Pentagon acknowledged its casualties from hostile fire reached 147, the same number of troops who died at enemy hands in the first Gulf War.
"That's my boy!" Bush the Elder exclaimed over his coffee.
Then there was that U.S. economy to destroy. That evil, blowjob-getting Bill Clinton reversed all that George the First had achieved when he racked up a huge federal budget surplus during his eight years in the Oval Office.
Bush Sr. must have been giddy when he also read in the newspaper this week that Junior's projected federal budget deficit of $455 billion for this year will handily break his daddy's previous record of a $290 billion budget deficit in 1992. No Social Security or Medicare for those Generation X'ers, those worthless slackers! Papa Bush turned the page and read the story that began, "Teenagers are facing the worst summer job market in years, with the percentage of those holding summer jobs at its lowest in 55 years and the unemployment rate at its highest in a decade."
"Just like old times," he said to himself, smiling, choking back tears of joy.
More will die in Iraq in Gulf War II than did in Gulf War I and the budget deficit will be the largest in U.S. history. Gee Dubya has fulfilled every father's hope that his son will do even better than he.
There is plenty of more work to be done, though! Just like his pop had in 1992, Gee Dubya has "re"-election to lose. And if Dubya's history of outdoing his daddy is an indicator of the future -- and I think that it is -- he will lose "re"-election by an even larger margin than did dad.
Papa will be proud.
9:44:33 PM 
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