Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Twelve Questions

By Baxter

So the Worst Person Who's Ever Lived has "written a book." O joy.

We cats can't complain that George W. Bush will be touring the country and peddling his pathetic little memoir just as America goes to the polls this fall. What better reminder do we need of how he and the Worst Person Who's Ever Lived (If Indeed He Were a Person) wrecked the country?

Meanwhile, we cats have some suggestions for the unfortunate journalistic poseurs who'll be assigned to interview this awful man. Since we can't count on reporters to ferret out the truth any more, we'd like to recommend the following questions. Take 'em, journalists, and see if George W. Bush — who either surreptitiously drank or ostentatiously vacationed his way through the 43rd Presidency — can answer any of them.

Here goes!

1. What was the title of the book you were reading to those Sarasota schoolkids on September 11, 2001? Who was the author?

2. What was the name of your Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?

3. What Virginia law school supplied many of your Justice Department appointees?

4. What does the acronym "FEMA" stand for?

5. What was the name of the aircraft carrier on which you landed for your "Mission Accomplished" moment? To what port was the ship heading?

6. Who was your lawyer in Bush v. Gore?

7. On what court did Samuel Alito serve when you nominated him to the Supreme Court?

8. What was the name of the Utah mine where five miners and three rescuers died as a result of the mine's collapse? What company owned the mine at the time?

9. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize the year after the September 11 attacks?

10. Who was Jeb Bush's lieutenant governor?

11. What college baseball championship team did you welcome to the White House in 2004? Whom did they defeat for the college world series title?

12. Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?

(Sorry, we cats stole that last one from "You Bet Your Life." Just a reminder that, thanks to George W. Bush, 4,413 American soldiers who died in Iraq no longer have their lives to bet.)

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