Cuckoo or alien these guys are making a real mess of things by serving the agendas of the people who put them there. I have never seen such a diverse coalition in my life. The Democrats talk about the big umbrella, but the Republicans have really constructed one. This is really the umbrella with the fringe on top, but only fringes on the right need apply. If you take them one by one; these organized believers in something, or folks against almost anything that promotes happiness; you would find it hard to believe that any organization could pull them together. It seems much less possible to keep them together for long enough to elect anyone to any office. They include bigots so limited in their vision of humanity that only members of their thousand-member sect will make it to heaven. The rest of us are just human flotsam to be used and cast aside on the last day.

Aliens leaving their young in our homes for us humans to raise as our own is a great scheme for a science fiction novel, unfortunately there is reason to believe that it is really happening. Where do you think people like Karl Rove and Dick Cheney come from? Do they seem to have any of the real human emotions that most of us enjoy? And how about Rumsfield or Wolf Wits (my spellchecker insists)? How could anyone have assembled such a cast of automatons without resorting to recruiting aliens on purpose? Maybe this is really the old "SCI-FI" plot about aliens taking over our government in an attempt to rule the world come to life. If it is, the philosopher scientist who is going to save us had better show up soon or it may be too late.

The range of this Republican Coalition includes real internationalists who genuinely want us to rule the world as a means of creating the one world government! It also includes religious bigots, racial bigots, social bigots, sexual bigots, those bigoted against the poor, and bigots who hate all outsiders, and probably bigots against aliens and somewhere in the mix there might even bigots against bigots. No, I forgot, they're all Democrats. It includes people against the use of condoms, people against the use of genetics, people against the use of antibiotics, people against the use of your Willie for fun, and people against the people's right to speak out unless they agree with the Commander In Chief. Whew, now that is a coalition of real breadth and range, it puts the Democrats rainbow coalition to shame, and it is mostly white and rich or white and middle class or white and poor, but it is pale faced to the core. Oh yes they have a few token members of other races in visible positions but they are White Bread Republican Party to the core and as alien to most members of their own race as a cuckoo fledgling is to its parents.

The thing about a coalition like this is you have to give every one of your supporters a piece of the bone that all politicians hand out when the table is set. W is really good at that; his alien genes probably include a facility for making everyone feel like they are getting something. The businesses that supported his candidacy are still supporters, they are benefiting from lenient tax policies and restrictive worker policies. The poor are up for audits this year and so his rich campaign supporters need fear no evil from the IRS. But how about the many other members of the Bush rainbow, this is where the fringes get tangled. You see our President is a closet liberal, he really wants to be compassionate but his followers won't let him. There is one group or another who is against any policy that actualizes his compassion. He really wants to create jobs! Believe it because if he doesn't create jobs it could be the issue that defeats him. He knows that his tax cut won't create jobs! That is just a reward to his base of rich white men, one of the few non-fringe groups in his coalition. But can he propose a new WPA? No! God! That would be anathema to one of his fringes. So he is a President tied up in the fringes of his coalition, not an alien or a cuckoo at all. What can we do to help him? Vote against him next time so we can release him from the grip of his fringes, it is by far the most compassionate approach. God bless and keep you, our troops our protestors and our cuckoos safe in these alien times.