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In San Francisco, after the 12 December 2000 Supreme Court decision that put George W. Bush in the White House, some wiseacre made up a bunch of stickers that said "Puppet St." in white letters on a green background, closely resembling San Francisco's street signs. These were pasted all along Bush Street overnight.
Well, now the nation is slowly waking up to the reality that President Bush is in fact Dick Cheney's puppet. He is little more than a figurehead, and as I mentioned in response to a Garrison Keillor piece from last week, a rather poor one at that. That our Congress as well as a large plurality of Americans could either not see this or simply didn't care that Dick Cheney was in fact pulling President Bush's strings, even after the revelation of the existence of Executive Order 13292 is a stinging indictment of the decrepit moral state of our society. We have been sold a bill of goods, have paid a heavy price in blood and treasure for our foolishness and complacency, with even heavier costs yet to come, and we just went along with our daily business as if nothing was wrong.
May God have mercy upon us.
