It is no surprise that I have no love of the current administration. I can't think of any President in my life who has been as lousy as Bush II. Born in '74, I don't get to include Nixon, but even Tricky Dick went to China and put a couple other feathers in his cap along with all his slime. Ford pardoned everyone and managed not to accomplish or ruin anything in his two year tenure. Carter had a mess on his hands, and he learned the difference between peanuts & Congress: some nuts bite back. Reagan tore down our economy but strangely enough tore down the Berlin Wall. Bush I tore down the economy more & wrote the blueprint for Mideast Conflict, but his war only lasted one month. Clinton was a man of the people, and dammit if he didn't actually care what happened to the common man. He also cared about the common women and their mouths. Basically, all presidents have their ups & downs.

It would be nice to say Bush II led us through the 9-11 moments with strength & security, and at the time, it appeared that he did. The subsequent actions of the administration show that this was not the case. They took one terrorist attack and went to war TWICE. Five years later, neither has been a success in any sort of tangible form. Gas prices have doubled. Science (i.e. stem cell research) has been rejected. Katrina wiped out New Orleans & it's still a mess down there. I really can't think of anything that has been an outright positive for the Bush II administration. AND WE STILL HAVE TWO YEARS OF IT.

The main thing I learned from the 2004 Presidential Election is that it only matters IF PEOPLE VOTE. I was in a rock bar about three weeks before that election, and people were bitching about the president right & left. The bartender walked up and down the bar saying with an evil tone "Busssssssshhhhh, Cheneyyyyyyyy. Busssssssshhhhh, Cheeeeeeennnneeeeeeeyyyyyyy." It made the crowd cringe, but it also made me realize something. These people weren't going to vote. One hundred people who had no love for Bush, and one Christian middle class house wife would cancel them all out because she would vote for Bush because she didn't like the idea of gay marriages. Wow.

I have no illusions about what my vote is worth. At best, my vote cancels out one ditto head. At worst, my voted gets disavowed for no good reason, and I become one of the thousands of disenfranchised Americans. I wouldn't be surprised, and I wouldn't put it past anybody to do so. It doesn't matter how much I've thought out my decision. It doesn't matter that all the evidence shows that the choices my government has made in the new millennium have been wrong and flat out evil. It is just one vote, but it only matters IF YOU VOTE.

In three weeks, we get to vote again. You know, if we really want to vote again. No, we can't get to Bush. There is no button for impeachment. All we can do on a national level is gut Congress of all these do-nothing lemmings. Honestly, if we could wipe the slate clean and start over with new blood across the board, I would push that button. I can't say the replacements would enthrall me either, but it would at least be something different.

Remember, this is the Congress that blindly supported the Iraq War. This is the Congress that has done NOTHING for the common man. In fact, they have done NOTHING in the last two years since we last voted. The President broke the LAW with wire taps and spying, and they couldn't figure out what to do about it. They passed Patriot Act laws which have done more to spy on us than terrorists. This is a Congress full of Foleys & spinners & deniers & money grubbers & evil doers. These good ol' Boys & Girls FLAT OUT SUCK HIPPO DICK!

But you know what, it doesn't matter. In a month, it still may not matter, UNLESS YOU GET OFF YOUR TAIL ONE FREAKING DAY EVERY TWO YEARS AND TELL THESE BASTARDS & BITCHES THAT THEY DO NOT REPRESENT YOU, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR COMMUNITY, YOUR DISTRICT, YOUR STATE, OR THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY & ITS BASIC RIGHTS & FREEDOMS WE ARE TRYING TO UPHOLD.

Sorry for being a one trick pony this week, but as simple as the message is, I guarantee that there will be thousands of simple Americans who still won't go vote on November 7. And as bad as things are politically in our country, if given another two years of encouragement, they could get even worse.

Chris Jungle is voting for all the bond issues.