- Episode One:
- Fantasy: Alice Meets Humpty Dumpty Rove.
- Episode Four:
- Fantasy: Alice Meets Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum
- Episode Fourteen:
- Fantasy: Alice Sees Humpty Dumpty Rove Again.
- Fact Sheet: What Alice Didn't Know about King Bush's Record on the Environment.
- Fact Sheet: What Alice Didn't Know about the Health Effects of Pollution.
- What you and Alice can do...
- Information about how to change things
Revised, Second Edition 2006
Foreword by Syndicated Columnist
© 2006 by Peggy Wireman
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Alice followed a path marked Right Wing Republican policies but stopped when she saw two strange men. They were short, round and fat. They looked exactly alike. One had a label on the back of his collar saying Dum and the other had a label saying Dee. "Oh," thought Alice, "They must be Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum." ALICE: "Hello Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum." TWEEDLE DEE AND TWEEDLE DUM IN UNISON: "You must address us by our new proper names." ALICE: "What are they?" TWEEDLE DEE: "Can't you read? Don't you follow Fox News?" ALICE: "Read what?" TWEEDLE DUM: "The signs around our necks." Alice looked again and saw that each man carried a sign with a big symbol of an elephant. Each sign had a picture of the American flag. Tweedle Dee's sign said "Bush's White House." Tweedle Dum's sign said "Republican Congress." ALICE: "Now I know how to address you. But before I read the signs, I couldn't tell you apart." TWEEDLE DEE: "That's good. I expect my Republican Congress to follow everything that I do. A good Republican Congress follows its leader. And they do." ALICE: "How do you get them to do that?" TWEEDLE DEE: "I threaten them. It worked best when my lieutenant Tom DeLay Walrus was in charge. He knew how to twist every rule that the House of Representatives has ever had. When he wrote that Medicare Prescription Drug bill, he kept the vote open into the wee hours of the morning until he could twist enough arms to pass it. Some Republicans didn't want to vote for the big tax benefits to the drug companies, but DeLay convinced them that they wouldn't be able to get their own bills passed until they did." ALICE: "Is DeLay still in charge?" TWEEDLE DEE, FROWNING,: "No, some idiot commie, pinko, liberal Democratic prosecutor indicted him for illegal campaign contributions." |
ALICE: "Was he guilty?" TWEEDLE DEE: "Who cares? Those campaign contributions and his tricks in redistricting Texas gave us five Republican Congressmen. We might need those five to keep control of Congress." ALICE: "Is keeping control of Congress so important?" TWEEDLE DEE: "Of course. How could I proceed with my agenda to make America strong in the War on Terror? Why some Democrats thought Congress ought to exert oversight on things like why Halliburton got to spend billions in Iraq without considering any other firms or what they did with the money. Surely, knowing that Vice King Cheney used to run Halliburton ought to be enough of a recommendation." ALICE: "Besides avoiding oversight is there any other reason that you want to control Congress?" TWEEDLE DUM: "I want to make sure that the Christian Right's Family Values rule all family decisions in this country and that the rights of big business are considered first in all government decisions." ALICE: "What kind of decisions?" TWEEDLE DEE: "Whether big businesses should pay workers a living wage. Henry Ford had this ridiculous idea that his workers should be paid enough to buy the automobiles they were producing. Now we're structuring the work force so that employees will only be able to afford to shop at the stores paying them low wages and purchasing most of their merchandise from China. That will keep those stores in business and raise their stock prices. We wouldn't want to stop progress by requiring businesses to pay more, provide health care for their employees or cleanup environmental damage. That would hurt the economy." ALICE: "Are there other reasons you need to control Congress?" TWEEDLE DUM: "We want to cut health programs for the elderly, Veteran benefits, food stamps and other programs for the poor. Republicans want to make sure that people inheriting estates worth over two million dollars don't ever have to pay taxes on the money. Only people who work for a living and can't afford to hire lawyers to figure out tax dodges should pay taxes. And we certainly want to make sure that Congress doesn't have the power to hold serious hearings about what King Bush has been doing in Iraq or how he spends the taxpayers' money. Clearly, as King, he has a divine right to spend it for the best interest of his loyal followers." |
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Compassionate King Bush weeps as the poor oysters fall through the safety net.
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About the Author, Peggy Wireman, Ph.D.
Dr. Wireman can be contacted at pwireman@aliceinbushland.com |
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