Forget Bush; It's All Willie Nelson's Fault

Mike Hudson of the Niagra Falls Reporter has done the impossible: He's figured out that Bush et al is Willie Nelson's fault! Snippets:

"I never thought I'd say this, but President George W. Bush reminds me more and more of Willie Nelson every day. And not just because they're both from Texas and have had problems in the past with substance abuse, although both of those things are interesting enough. No, it's because George W. has seemingly taken Willie's offhand remark and turned it into political philosophy. In matters as diverse as the situation in Iraq, the economy and the environment, Bush's rhetoric attempts to create perceptions entirely at odds with any objective reality.

That our most recent war was fought for nothing more than oil and Bush family pride seems transparent. Vice President Cheney's former company, Halliburton, and the president's father's company, the Carlyle Group, stand to make a killing on the thousands of dead bodies -- American, British and Iraqi -- racked up during our recent overseas adventure.

Our smirking, and often apparently medicated, president -- who, by the way, lost the general election by 500,000 votes -- will tell us only, "Are you going to believe what you see or are you going to believe what I tell you?" Damn you, Willie Nelson."