Dear Batshit Loopy Leader of the Free World,
I want to apologize, sir. I know you have come to rely on my advice. And I feel like I haven’t been there for you lately. Since you were taking a five week vacation in Crawford I figured I could get away for a while, too. But since your administration, and the entire Republican Party of which you are the head, seem to be falling apart, I cut my vacation short, so that I might offer you a few items of constructive criticism. Please consider the following:
First, sell the fucking ranch. Everyone I know that could pass the SAT knows that Bush is to Ranching like Truthful Accounting is to Enron. People pretty much understand that you are going there to do some yard work and knock back a few stiff ones. It has been in the Enquirer for fucking God’s sake. And ask Tom Cruise – once they are on to you, the secret is pretty much over. Plus, with how badly you have fucked up the entire planet, people don’t really want to think about you on vacation, while they’re working their collective asses off trying to figure out a way to pay for that extra dollar-thirty a gallon gas is going to cost them. Fuck it. No more vacations. And surely. No more vacations on “the ranch.” It is pretty simple really. Sell the ranch = fewer people in a revolutionary state of mind. I am pretty certain about this.
Second, never, ever, listen to Turdblossom again, when he tells you that it will be a good idea to fly over a disaster area of biblical proportions with a photographer anywhere on your goddamned plane. If you haven’t figured it out for yourself yet, Rove’s political instincts have left him more quickly than HCA stock flying out of Frist’s portfolio before a bad quarterly report. That picture of you, flying over New Orleans, while tens of thousands of Americans were trapped inside hell holes designated as government evacuation points – sleeping with dead people and feces – was the single image that many of us will carry to our graves, right above the caption of “Worst Fucking President in the history of the world.” I can’t lie to you here. The damage that photo has done is irreversible. Many, many Americans will hate and despise you until either you, or they, are buried. But don’t make it any worse. Things are going to get out of fucking hand if you make it any worse. I am seriously afraid that your ineptitude may actually disintegrate the very institutions which have allowed us to peacefully transfer power democratically for the last two-hundred and some years here in the U.S. So stay the fuck away from 1) disaster areas, 2) cameras, and 3) Rove. Please. I am begging you here. To recap. No more photos of you looking on helplessly as the nation collapses = some chance that we will not suffer some kind of popular fucking revolt ending with guillotines or some shit.
Third, please read Article II, Section 2, Clause 1, of the United States Constitution. No. I’m not kidding. It is only about a hundred words long. Just wait until Cheney, Rummy, and Rove are out planning to bomb Iran, and ask your secretary to bring you a copy. You can even ask her to highlight the fucking appropriate passage. Because you are the fucking President. It is amazing. But, it is very important that you read it. I will even give you my analysis of this key section, to make it easy. You are the Commander and Chief of the United States Armed Forces. Nobody else. It is you. This is the “George Washington” clause of the great document that your administration is destroying. This clause gives you, and you alone, the power to do something really fucking great. You know your poll numbers and how fucked they are. I can make them better. I am sure of it. Just repeat after me, “I order the complete and immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.” Practice it. Break it down into three word pieces and say it over and over. But you need to act fast. Because you are fucking murdering people. Daily. I know, you probably don’t even realize it. You are simple. I can understand that. But real people are fucking dying daily, for no fucking reason. They wrote you speeches. And they told you there were good reasons. But, everyone in the whole fucking world now knows that this was complete and utter bullshit. So just learn to say it. “I order – the complete – and immediate – withdrawal – of U.S. forces – from Iraq.” They have to listen to you. You are the Commander and Chief. You don’t even have to give them a fucking reason. But, if you need help, call me. Okay. I am there. But they have to fucking listen. I guarantee you a ten point bounce on day one after you announce this. Just do it. Because if you don’t, you are going to have to stay in the fucking White House all the time for the next three years. I was on your lawn this weekend. There were like a half-a-million people. And they all hated you and Cheney. They know. Okay. They know. It is all a lie. I walked by your house, and they were screaming at you to fucking leave. And it is not going to get better okay. There is no getting better from here. Admit it. Give the fucking order. And some people will stop hating you. We are a forgiving country, sir. But don’t kill anyone else. Please. Be a human being. You remember what it was like, to ponder going to a foreign land to die, right? Right before you got into the Guard. And fuck Cheney. He’ll be okay. He’s got a summer home that isn’t on the Gulf Coast, doesn’t he? Okay. Here is the shorthand. Read Constitution + Feel Empowered = Stop Unjustifiable Death and Destruction by Uttering a Simple Sentence. I’m not kidding here, sir. I would back you on this, if you would grow the balls to do it.
Fourth. This one is really simple. Get a fucking doctor to adjust your meds. You are totally fucked. I have seen it before. Lots of people on psychotropic meds get tics and shit. But you, unlike a vast and growing number of people over whom you rule, have access to the best health care in the world. When your secretary brings you the Constitution, just tell her to get the best doctor money can buy, and have him or her make a fucking house call. You are looking horrible. People are starting to talk. It is kind of disconcerting with the whole “you having access to the Nuclear codes thing,” not to mention all the shit that Majestic 12 probably told you about the Alien Technology Project at Area 51. You gotta get the meds straight. Fewer Facial Tics = Less time I will spend in therapy imagining you are going to end the world, not because you are an asshole, but because your finger fucking twitched while you were playing with the red button.
Fifth, it is never really too early to start working on a resignation speech. The silver lining here is that there have been so few of them, it is something, that if you start working now, you might be considered the best at. The list of greatest resignation speeches would look like this. 1) George W. Bush. 2) Richard M. Nixon. That’s something, huh? Better than the consolation prizes they used to give away on the old Let’s Make A Deal Show. Remember that show? That was a hoot, huh? Seriously though. Things are just looking dire everywhere you fucking stare, aren’t they? Delay indicted. Frist under investigation. Rove under investigation. Libby under investigation. Brownie resigned in disgrace. Any sane fucking person you ever had in your government (Powell, O’Neill) gone. Downing Street. Katrina. Iraq. Abramoff. (Did that guy really fucking have someone whacked?) Fuck. It kind of makes Monica look pretty laughable, huh? And a Democratic Congress just about one year away. Just work on the speech. If you are humble when you make the address – you know, human. Say something like, “I was just never up for the job, and I am really sorry.” I think that alone would get you to number one on the list. Plus – don’t give the double peace signs when you get on the chopper. Unless of course, you actually issue the order to end the war. Then maybe the peace signs would be okay. Okay? Hard Work on Resignation Speech = Pretty Good Chance You Can Top Nixon.
I gotta run. I’d love to make myself available to you for actual consultations, but I don’t really want to hurt my public image. I’ll write again as the inevitable day gets closer. Hang in there. And give the order. It will help a little.
Completely and utterly amazing. I’m speechless right now, BostonJoe, and that’s saying something π
Psst, if we actually printed this off and mailed it to him, how long do you think it would take for the FBI, CIA or the NSA (recalling Steve Earl’s song) to crash through our windows?
Hell with it, let’s mass email it to our Senators and Reps. Show them how to really speak to this warmonger.
xxxooo
Wildest dreams I imagine Batshit Loopy being appraised of our little site by some twenty-something Republican intern.
I don’t want no stinking help getting on the FBI watch list though. π
Glad to see you got your little bro here. Very good.
I did so miss these, BostonJoe, so very much!!
This one is superb — I may just take Janet’s suggestion….we could all sign it “A Concerned Citizen” (with the hand we don’t usually write with, so no handwriting analysis — that is, if you think they have any competent ones left in the federal government??)
Love you man — these letters are INSTA-CLASSICS!
Oh, Boston Joe, thanks for the giggle. I especially liked the advice about the “facial tics”. I’m still chuckling… the reason it’s so funny is because so much of what you say is TRUE.
As I spend more time over here at Boo Man, and less at kos, I am finding new favorites to look for. With your latest effort, you have moved to the top of my list. Save this one for future generations to mull over, it will tell them a lot about who we were.
Have you given any thought to brushing up your portfolio and then interviewing with either Jon Stewart or Bill Mahr for a job?? This is really, really good stuff. Thanks for making my day, and make an appointment with GW real soon to read this to him. I think he is still working on that summer reading list we heard about, and may not get to your letter for sometime!
You gotta love more time at BooMan. I’ve spent a few minutes at the place that shall remain nameless today, trying to defend the honor of our blogging anti-war efforts, and our outstanding blog host.
But yeah. This place is home. As they told me when I started coming more. Pull up a lilly pad. The water’s fine. And of course, the golden rule. Don’t be a prick.
I love this place.
Thanks for a fun read. I can’t get out of my head the vision of his struggle when his next line was “shame on me!”
Any hope of decency from this man is pure fantasy.
so funny- the gift to laugh and give others that laugh–You have it Boston Joe- although, I almost said BJ- which would not have been what I meant.:)
Being neither from Boston, nor named Joe — you can call me BJ. Who cares. Beats typing out all nine letters. Think of the time you will save.
about the time I just spent counting the letters in your UID to see if there were actually nine…
Great job, this has been a favorite diary series of mine.
You have outdone yourself once again my friend. I am with janet. Let us all sign this or was that Brinnainne and send it off to Georgie.
What the heck, I email the White House all the time and they still haven’t knocked on my door…lol! Great, great diary!!
But you gotta stop reading so much Dave Barry. You’re beginning to sound like him.
I give you a 10 and a Pulitzer.
How lucky are we to have Boston Joe here with us?!
You have a way, and I second Keepinon’s suggestion above that you are ready for the bigtime. Though I’d hate to see you leave us frogs behind on your way to the footlights :o)
There’s one problem with your plea to our Batshit Loppy Prez. He ain’t human. I wouldn’t even honor him with the title of sub-human. He is the carbon based version of a black hole. There’s no light escaping that dense sumbitch.
I’ve got that same prob as you with the getting better at accepting praise. But I honsetly think this is the coolest collection of writers, thinkers, philosophers, economists, historians, political pundits ahd journalists. So many freaking talented people.
we have people here who make really great fruit daiquiries π
That’s what I bring to the fold.
And… I make this heinous face. It’s quite ugly. Damn near FUGLY. I call it “Slug face”. Next march, I’ll show you it.
π
ammend my list of talented people to include fruity drink artistes, and face contortionists, if there was only a edit button for comments. π
Cool and maybe you could show us how to do it then the next time some freeper wants to call you names we can all run up to him and slap a mass slug face attack on his ass!! They won’t know what hit them! Lol
Faces of Mass Destruction! π
And then, I had to laugh.
Hahahahahahaha.
Batshit Loopy’s back, all’s right with the world.
Oh, wait, it’s not all right. Fitzgerald hasn’t brought in the handcuffs yet. I can’t wait to see what you do with THAT, BJ.
“Advice for Batshit Loopy Prez; Letters to Bush” would make a wonderful book.
This is the second one I’ve read, but I gather from the comments that there are even more. Can we have a link to all of them, please ???
You are a great talent, and I hate to think I’ve missed any.
Oh, you would have to be a vain, publicity hound to publish back issues of the Advice series.
But okay. Since you are so persuasive. π
It all started back on dKos, in the days before the purges, with the critically acclaimed original Advice to Batshit Loopy Prez.
Then I found my new home at BooMan and followed up the less memorable, but still readable, More Advice for Batshit Loopy Prez.
Tiring of the Advice to Prez series (I am having strange visions of VH1’s We are the ’80s show where celebrities talk about lame not-so famous people in disparaging ways), I did the Advice for Dim Feeb NYTs Editor, a diary known only to cultish followers of the series, and now you. (Note: If you are really desperate for bad reading material, Advice for Dim Feeb NYTs Editor spawned its own spin off series, Fit to Print Me, which is now only available on Beta, I think).
Sensing a fan backlash, I tried to recapture the dying franchise with Yet More Advice for Batshit Loopy Prez.
Still not happy I had exhausted the genre, I tried my hand at lampooning marginal pop artists with Advice to Dumbiss Country and Western Singer. I think this may have pissed some folks off, as I came to understand that some progressive people like NASCAR.
There it is. A whole retrospective. Enjoy. I am at once embarrassed and pleased anyone would be interested, if that is possible.
I need a day job.
Thank God, another creative mind saved from the (blithering)* practice of law. At least I hope so.
* Not that all lawyers blither. Somewhere, there are surely some who do not. Perhaps even among those in my family.
You hit my feelings about it on the nose. While the pay for writing diaries on BooMan isn’t nearly what it was for lawyering, it sure is a lot more fun. Too many lawyers in this world. Too few angry people trying to oust the moron-king.
Thank you ! I have saved them all in a “Don’t Commit Suicide Today Because You Can Read BostonJoe Again” file. I read the ones I’d missed. Laughed so hard I may have done myself a mischief. Again, many, many thanks, BJ.
A less angry Bob Boudelang? A less profane Rude Pundit? A less sanctimonious General J.C. Christian?
MORE FUNNY than all of them together!
All together now, say BATSHIT LOOPY, BATSHIT LOOPY, BATSHIT LOOPY, BATSHIT LOOPY, BATSHIT LOOPY, BATSHIT LOOPY……
Somebody Front Page this guy!
Though, like Groucho Marx, I would never join a club that would have me as a member. (Except for the Rude Pundit — he is cool — though I am not familiar with the other two).
Ah, I recommend them all. Good writers need to read good writers. When Bob or Gen. J.C. or Rude get on a roll, they are awsome in their voicings of sarcasm and wit.
Also, thanks again for marching for me in D.C.
Every few months I think, “I’ve had it with political news. I already know I’m going to vote against the Republicans, so what do I get out of it?”
Then I remember: BostonJoe’s advice to the preznit. And I tune back in, and the cycle begins anew.
I just read this to my husband, as I have with your others — his reaction: I love this guy.
That makes two of us.
Boston I think #4 was your best.
Sound advice my friend. There is absolutely no excuse for Bush not being properly medicated. At least if they up his dosage he won’t be able to drink as much. Less liquor for bush is less danger of nuclear holocaust. This is the kind of advice we could have used in the spring of 2003. Keep up the good work.
How’s it going? Missed you around here in all the post-protest love fest that has been going on. Good to hear from you again. That was a blast. Thanks.
I missed meeting up with you guys Saturday and have been bummimng about that a bit. I’m on the activist mailing list so you havn’t seen the last of me! Really enjoyed your diary.
Damnit Salunga!!!! I missed you!!!!!!
Kept my head on a swivel for you and several others Saturday. Was hoping you’d find us at the concert after the march π
MISS YOU!!!! So glad we got a chance to chat and drink. Thank you ever so much for the drink you bought me. xoxox
Your very welcome DJ. It was a blast at happy hour. We will all get together again to change the world. I’m sure of that. Cause the world needs changing and somebodies got to do it! What a sweet post xoxox to you too!
BJ,
Thanks so much for the letter. After two days of feeling miserable and talking like a frog, I read this out loud to my husband and we just guffawed through the whole thing. It was exactly what the doctor ordered!
bostonjoe, i would listen to you every day if you were on the radio or tv. i laughed, and then cryed because the truth you tell is SO TRUE THAT IT HURTS.
That would be fun. But they don’t let people like you or I on the radio or the television much, do they, what with just a few corporations owning them all. I mean really angry people who just can’t freakin’ take it any more. I think it is right in the FCC rules — “There shall be no broadcasts permitted that directly cuss out the President of the United States, or the flag, or the country for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for one to two percent of the people, depending on tax avoidance policies.”
Sorry. We’ll just have to do it here from time to time.
Saw your diary last night and thought, “Oh good!”
Then I saved it for the last thing to read – a treat to be savored.
Thanks.