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- Despite the adverse opinion abroad and
a treaty with Russia, Star Wars will be funded even if the money comes
from education, Social Security or Medicare. The huge tax cut will pass
and much of it will go to the corporations about to get richer building
Star Wars.
- There are no continuous and ongoing congressional
investigations of the president or any of his cabinet appointments with
the media in full cry. In fact, the media is mostly engaged in their time-honored
pastime of fanny kissing the administration.
- No one in the Capitol wants to feel our
pain -- they just want to bribe us with promises of returning a tiny bit
of our tax money. In addition, they give us the constant excitement of
a bouncing-betty stock market, high gas prices and promises that soon there
will be energy shortages for everyone.
- We used to have spin in the White House.
It was here a spin, there a spin, everywhere a spin, spin according to
the former ever vigilant media. Now all we get is the word of god as spoken
by Ari, out of Cheney, attributed to the Bush kid, Dubya as the media chorus
chants, “Hosanna!”
- Flip-flops and occasional belly flops?
Not in this alternate universe. What used to be a flip-flop or belly flop
is always something else.
- Dubya was speaking in the present future
past tense.
- SOD Rumsfeld
rides the Star Wars missile just like Dr. Strangelove rode the nuclear
bomb and that is supposed to make us feel safe. Yeee Haw!
- No attention is paid to polls unless they go against what the administration is doing then Carl Rove explains that they are studying the matter to arrive at a correct solution.
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FLIP-FLOPS, BELLY FLOPS & PRATFALLS
There
is a new tone in Washington DC. Well, sure there is now that it has become
an Alternate Universe. Most everyone who lives there and many
of the people who do not, are coming to realize that Alice and Dorothy
never left the Wonderland Capital of OZ. The so-called free press has become
the highest priced call girl in history.
That is the problem with Alternate Universes, they are just too confusing. What was up may now be left, right or down or invisible. Who knows? More importantly, who cares? Here’s where the shell game of life becomes surreal.
When we were dropped down the rabbit hole of 100 days, we found that all the rules were changed bent out of shape or do not apply. There is no right or wrong way, there is only what is. There is nothing to wonder about, nothing to criticize or delight in. The so-called Bully Pulpit is now a lectern for corporate bullyboys.
Our former friends abroad are aghast. At first they laughed at us and then as D.C. got weirder and weirder, they pulled away in total disbelief, and now they are on the verge of dropping us from all their guest lists. Here are just a few of the reasons for our fear and their contempt.
Dubya
doesn’t like arsenic either. Dubya cares about children’s school lunches.
Close your eyes and Dubya will gut the forest land bill while appearing
to enact it. Dubya will pretend to go along with conservation of energy
until the oil wells are set up in Alaska. Dubya will declare no more nicey-nicey
with the Chinese and then the next day undeclare it or vise versa. Secrete
energy talks to plan decreases in conservation funding and increases in
funding for coal, nuclear, gas and oil corporations are Dubya’s way of
making sure we get gas. Burrp!
Be sure to stay tuned. After falling down the bunny hole into this Alternate Universe, the pratfalls* may be only a few clicks of our ruby red heels against the ballot box away. Let’s hear it for Glenda!
*Pratfall noun 1. A fall on the buttocks. 2. A humiliating error, failure, or defeat
2001-020
Copyright
2001 Renee T. Louise and Ruth M. Sprague, Ph.D. These articles may be republished
for noncommercial use only, provided that they are copied intact, and that
this copyright notice is attached. Address all queries to: twanda@gendergappers.org.
G e n d e r G a p p e r s T M
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