This week in Future History 6/23 - 6/30
7/1 - 7/7 ..7/8 - 7/14

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter One: The Bush Resignation
Chapter Two: What Happened to Bush?
Chapter Three: The Halloween Massacre
Chapter Four: The Miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue
Chapter Five:The Reign of the Queen of Hearts

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THE BUSH RESIGNATION

The "Troubles" of the first and second decades of the 21st century began with the surprise resignation of George W. Bush as President of the United States on September 10, 2007. As noted by Michaels & Ellis in A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE: American Politics 2000-2020 (University of Bombay Press, 2133), the Bush resignation threw the world's one remaining superpower into a political whirlwind. In the following chapters we will examine some of the historic events of that period and contemporary reactions to Bush's resignation and the profound changes it triggered in late 2007 and 2008.

Excerpts from the Popular Media, September 4 - October 31, 2007


From the New York TIMES, 9/4/07

"The latest political poll from GALLUP/ZOGBY has Bill Frist and Hillary Clinton maintaing their leads for their respective parties' nomination for president. On the democratic side Clinton (62%) enjoys a huge lead over Warren Beatty (12%), Al Franken (10%), Al Gore (8%) and Joe Lieberman (2%). With thirty percent, Frist leads a bunched Republican field and is trailed by Jerry Falwell (21%), Jeb Bush (20%), Rudy Guiliani (13%), George H.W. Bush (10%), Neil Bush (4%) and Joe Lieberman (2%). "


From the Crawford LONESTAR ICONOCLAST, 9/4/07


BUSH FALLS FROM HORSE, THANKFULLY LANDS ON HEAD

"President Bush slid off his new farm horse, a five year old snow-white gelding named Blow, late yesterday while chasing a gopher. 'I landed on my head, so I know I'm OK,' the President laughed. Naval surgeon Leon Phelps examined the President and quickly concluded the commander-in-chief was unharmed. First Lady Laura Bush comforted her husband with a large platter of chocolate chip cookies."




From the Danbury NEWS-TIMES, 9/4/07


SENATOR LIEBERMAN OFFERS BUSH BEST WISHES, VOWS TO WORK WITH INJURED PRESIDENT TO UNITE NATION



From the NEW YORK POST , 9/4/07




From VARIETY, an entertainment weekly, 9/4/07

This Week's Top Grossing Films:


Terminator X ...........................$113million
Jesus Returns ............................102 million
Rapture Academy II .......................88 million
Kill Bill 4.....................................81 million...


From the DAILY KOS, an internet blog, 9/4/07

"Bush lands on his head? Talk about luck... But with his poll numbers in the tank and Dems just three seats from control the the House and one in the Senate, next year is gonna be SOOOO sweet. Go Hillary, baby, we can't lose!"


From OPINIONS YOU SHOULD HAVE, an internet humour blog, 9/4/07

Agents of the FBI and Secret Service continue to interrogate Blow, the horse implicated in Bush's fall. According to reliable sources, the horse continues to refuse to answer any of the agents' questions. Suspicions were heightened when it was learned early this morning that Blow had previously belonged to Ann Richards, the well known Bush critic and Democratic activist. Blow's attorneys, provided by the ACLU, claim their client is being made a scapegoat. "It isn't right. He's not a goat. He's a horse and anyone can see it."


From the INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, 9/9/07

"German police raided a third shabby Dresden bordello late last night in their ongoing hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Three elderly Saudis were taken into custody and a large quantity of black market Viagra was confiscated. Authorities conceded they once again found no indication Bin Laden had been in the premises."



From OPERA MAGAZINE, 9/10/07

"The Metropolitan Opera of New York announced late yesterday that Clay Aiken has agreed to assume the title role in next season's production of Verdi's OTELLO. The opera has been slightly rewritten; the Metropolitan version will feature Otello, Desdemona and Iago as contestants on an "Italian Idol" television program. The opera will premier on June 4 and run through August 12th."


From the NEW YORK TIMES, 9/11/2007



TEARFUL PRESIDENT RESIGNS, ADMITS MISTAKES

“Calling himself one of the worst presidents ever to serve, George W. Bush apologized to the nation for what he tearfully described as, 'my many, many blunders'. After citing the Iraq, Iran and Syrian wars, his judicial nominations and his attempt to reform social security as his worst mistakes, Bush announced his immediate resignation. 'I can't believe what a fool I've been! About anybody could do this job better than me.'

Dick Cheney will be sworn in a the 44th President tomorrow morning if his secret bunker and cardiologists can be located in time.

A stunned Bill Frist, the current Republican frontrunner for the party's presidential nomination, immediately attacked the 'mainstream, elitist media' for reporting the President's remarks. 'Don't they know we're at war? This will only help our enemies, the terrorists!' Frist then demanded a videotape of the President's speach.'Maybe he's just sick, real sick, and I can help him. Does he have insurance?' Campaigning in New Hampshire, a somber Hillary Clinton said, 'It's sad, very sad. I feel his pain. It takes a village to support a president; and it will take new taxes to support that village...''

Prior to his resignation Bush's approval rating had dropped to 24% according to the latest GALLUP/ZOGBY poll. 'I know now the American people aren't as stupid as me,' Bush said as he left the Rose Garden, his head bowed; 'I'm just gonna go back to Crawford and milk my horse.'”


From the DAILY KOS. Internet blog, 9/12/07

"I smell a fat rat's ass - a rat named Karl Rove. Bush resigns, then Cheney, then Speaker Hastert. Meanwhile Frist is elected Spearker ProTem and - BINGO! - he's the sitting President with a huge advantage in '08!! Bush will get a bunch of sympathy and give Frist a big boost -- all the religeeidiots will pray for him and the party... Poor Hillary. We're gonna get SWAMPED. These guys are SO evil...."
KARL


CONAN O'BRIAN, Tonight (television program) host, 9/13/07

"Bush tells us he's stupid... Wow. Who knew? Personally, I think we should keep him - he's the first honest politician since a drunken Washington ratted himself out on that cherry tree thing... I think he's just upset there's no one left to invade. Hey, Mr. President, I've got just one cool word of advice: Canada! Just think of all that snow..."


From ANN COULTER, a centemporary political writer, in THE LAST AMERICAN PATRIOT REVIEW, a weekly tabloid published on 9/15/07

"This, then, is what we have come to: the greatest leader in American history since Joe McCarthy driven from office by a mindless swarm of vile, stinking, blood-sucking liberal secular humanist cockroaches, mainstream media slime and assorted multicultural treasonous toads. Cheney needs to call out the national guard and give the only possible order: let the cleansing begin."


From the bulletin of the First Church of the Holy Redeemer, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 9/15/07

"The end time is at hand. This time we are sure. We will hold a potluck "waiting for the rapture" party this Saturday at 6:00 PM in the main assembly hall. Please bring bottled water and folding chairs."


From the BOSTON GLOBE, 10/1/07

CHENEY NAMES FALWELL VP; DISSOLVES CONGRESS

"An angry President Dick Cheney dissolved both houses of congress last night after naming the Rev. Jerry Falwell as his 'acting Vice-President'.

'We cannot afford the luxury of petty political infighting in this perilous time for America, We can no longer be Democrats or Republicans - we must all be part of the same party - the Republican party,' Cheney declared during a exclusive Fox News interview. 'Our enemies may have hounded my predecessor from office, but I have just begun to fight.' Citing his well known heart problems, Cheney lauded Falwell as a 'fully qualified successor' if the need arose. 'Jerry will help me make this a faith-based government.'

Cheney said he intended to replace the House and Senate with a 'Patriot Convention'. 'We'll name one hundred dedicated patriots - a hundred good men - who can help us fight terror, pass needed laws without a lot of debate, impeach judges who won't respect America, that sort of thing.' Cheney added there would be two 'patriots' from each state except Massachusetts, California and New York, which will have none. 'I'll name one extra from Montana, Utah, Idaho, North Dakota, Wyoming and Alaska.'

At the end of his 90 minute interview, the President hinted at some changes he intends to make to the Bill of Rights. 'There are too many of them, it just confuses the American people. I plan to whittle them down to two or three.' Spokesmen for the President promised details in the coming days and assured America the most important amendment, the second, would remain."


From the Danbury NEWS-TIMES, 10/3/07


LIEBERMAN URGES CALM, VOWS TO WORK WITH NEW PRESIDENT TO UNITE NATION IN TIME OF TURMOIL


Headlines from the WALL STREET JOURNAL, 10/3/07


HALLIBURTON, EXXON, PRISON CONTRACTORS, CORSET MAKERS LEAD AS MARKET SOARS 231% IN HEAVY TRADING; MICROSOFT BUYS NEVADA



Headlines from the WASHINGTON POST, 10/16/07


HILLARY CLINTON AND PURPLE TELETUBBY MISSING; FRANCE AND GERMANY RECALL AMBASSADORS; CANADA RUSHES TROOPS TO NIAGRA FALLS, TAKES HONEYMOONERS HOSTAGE


Headlines from the SAN ANTONIO SUN, 10/19/07


CAMPUSES ACROSS NATION ERUPT; PROTESTERS BATTLE POLICE, HUNDREDS INJURED, THOUSANDS ARRESTED;STREISAND, BALDWIN, STONE, BOXER, SQUAREPANTS FLEE COUNTRY; WHERE IS HILLARY?


From WONKETTE, an internet blog, 10/21/07

"The Good News is I'm out on bail; the Bad News is my lawyer isn't. He was chairman of the DC ACLU. Go figure - he's probably in Gitmo by now. The Really Good News? I'm the first person in Washington charged with sedition since 1864..."


From VARIETY, 10/21/07

"Major movie studio executives are worried the growing political turmoil in the country may depress ticket sales this Christmas. Norm Goldman, principal producer of Baby Jesus Home Alone, a comedy scheduled for a December 12th release, is crossing his fingers and hoping things calm down. "I'd like to see democracy back, of course, I'd sacrifice my right arm, you know, but if not I hope Cheney has all this sorted out by Thanksgiving. I mean voting and free speach are great, but I've got a lot of mouths to feed."



From an editorial in the WASHINGTON TIMES, 10/21/07

"We can only stand and applaud President Cheney's bold call to excise the first, fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth amendments from our Constitution. The American nation faces deadly perils both at home and abroad. We can no longer allow our enemies, the Evil-Doers, to use the bill of rights as a shield against swift American justice and deserved retribution...

The surprising events of the past fortnight, however tragic they may have seemed, have unleashed in Dick Cheney a bold leader for our times, a true American Ceasar. We have finally crossed the Rubicon, thank God..."


From the Danbury NEWS-TIMES, 10/22/07

LIEBERMAN CHIDES CHENEY ON 'RIGHTS', BUT AGAIN VOWS TO HELP UNITE NATION


From the San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE, 10/23/07


MIGRANT WORKERS FLEE SOUTH, CROPS IMPERILED; GOVERNOR MAY DRAFT TEACHERS, NURSES TO PICK FRUIT



From the SPORTING NEWS, 10/24/07


WORLD SERIES, SUPER BOWL, TO BE OUT-SOURCED IN '08; TORRE VOWS NOT TO GO TO INDIA; KANSAS CITY CLINCHES PLAYOFF BERTH



From the Berkeley, California, EAST BAY EXPRESS, 10/25/07

PLEBICITE APPROVES SECESSION! NEW MILITIA REVOLTS, REFUSES TO BEAR ARMS; STATE FLAG TO BE CIRCULAR, MADE FROM LETTUCE LEAVES; MARIJUANA DECLARED OFFICIAL CITY HERB


From the Gadsen, Alabama, TIMES, 10/25/07

CITY, COUNTY VOTE TO SECEED FROM UNION; CONFEDERATE FLAG RESTORED; ALL CITIZENS ORDERED TO BEAR ARMS; WAR DECLARED ON CITY OF BERKELY, COUNCIL MEMBERS HUNT MAP, FORTY PICKUPS



From the NEW YORK TIMES, 10/25/07

CHENEY, WITH ENTIRE NATIONAL GUARD IN IRAQ, SYRIA, IMPORTS DANISH MERCENARY TROOPS TO D.C. AS MILLIONS CONVERGE FOR WASHINGTON PROTESTS; LIEBERMAN OFFERS SEVERAL DOZEN TIMES TO CALM CROWDS AND UNITE NATION


From the Elgin, Iowa, ECHO, 10/25/07

HARVEST CONTINUES; ANTIQUE TRACTOR PARADE CANCELLED; TOWN DEMOCRAT ARRESTED... harvest continues; antique tractor parade cancelled; town democrat arrested...



From the NEW YORK POST, 10/26/07

CHENEY DIES FROM MASSIVE HEART ATTACK! FALWELL SWORN IN AS 45TH PRESIDENT, THREATENS PROTESTERS WITH 'NUCLEAR OPTION', RENAMES COUNTRY 'UNITED STATES FOR CHRIST' LIEBERMAN VOWS TO WORK WITH FALWELL TO UNITE NATION!


From one of three million protestors in Washington on 10/26/07 as she was being arrested, as quoted in NEWSWEEK, 10/31/07

"Holy shit, Toto. I don't think we're in Kansas anymore...."


NEXT: THE HISTORICAL RECORD

The FALWELL FLAG of the United States for Christ (USC). It flew over the WHITE HOUSE on only one day - November 1, 2007. The original remains at the Smithsonian Museum in New Washington, D.C.

The following text is from A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE

WHAT HAPPENED TO BUSH?

For years after his resignation no clear basis for George W. Bush's shocking action could be established. Bush's near total silence once he returned to Crawford, Texas, on September 15, 2007, and his untimely death in late 2008 ended any hope of obtaining any explanation from the “horse's mouth”. Conspiracy theories filled the void. From the right, particularly after the ascension of Hillary Clinton, came tales that Bush had been poisoned, or that he was, in fact, a sleeper liberal agent. Michelle Malkin, a conservative writer of the day, became obsessed with the idea that Bush was somehow done in by a cabal of Japanese Americans. From the left the rumours initially had Bush resigning in an attempt to restore the sagging fortunes of the Republican party. Some religious progressives opined that, indeed, Bush had had a divine visitation. Others maintained he simply could not keep up his fraud any longer and had snapped.

In 2028, with the complete neutrino-bioscan of the Bush remains, courtesy of Schlomo Bush, the then family administrator, the answer was finally definitively determined. A little noted fall off a horse on September 3, 2007, had triggered a rapidly escalating series of neural events in the poorly "wired" Bush brain. When these neural events reached critical mass they induced a delusional state which was heightened by a miniscule residue of cocaine in the president's brain, Bush's delusion, of course, was that he was a poor president who had only benefited the rich and had harmed the rest of the nation through his bellicose and ill conceived acts. By the time he resigned on September 10, 2007, Bush was fully in the grip of his delusional state and he never returned to sanity before his death on December 21, 2008. As stated by Markella McBride in BUSH: The Pride and the Sorrow (Vivid, 2055): “that he did so very much yet died believing he had done so very little is a horrible irony.”

The revelations regarding Bush's delusional state led to the passage of the fortieth amendment to the American constitution in 2033. It required a psychiatric examination by three doctors for any president, vice-president or cabinet officer attempting to resign and claiming poor performance as her reason. A similar provision was adopted in the Charter of Global Governance in 2070 (Article IV, section 126(c). Also see the Lunar Constitution, paragraph 10-001.

President Bush's sudden fall inspired countless books, films and plays (see The Bush Presidency in Verse, Song and Laughter, Michaels, The Genesis Historian, Vol. 3, 3/11/27). Perhaps the most unique artistic adaptation was "President Homer", an animated television situation comedy which ran from 2010 through the 2014 season starring Homer Simpson. The program featured an ex-president who had resigned to return to his country ranch. Although he had been a failure in the White House, President Homer resolved various semi-hilarious domestic dilemmas each week in precisely twenty-two minutes! Sadly, the program was cancelled when Simpson lost his breach of contract lawsuit with Fox TV.

THE HALLOWEEN MASSACRE

On October 25, 2007, nearly three million protesters began flooding into Washington, D.C.,and the surrounding suburbs.The Cheney response was as harsh as it was foolish. With only fifteen hundred National Guard troops and eighteen thousand Danish mercenaries to safeguard Washington, not to mention the increasingly ambivalent mood of the country, the President's plan of using his modest military force to expel the protesters from the city was an invitation to disaster.

The first skirmish broke out early on the 25th when about a thousand protesters marched down Pennsylvania Avenue. A brigade of startled Danish troops, foraging for decent cheese and pastry, met the students with a volley of rifle fire. Twenty-two students were killed; another hundred were wounded.

The relative handful of national guard troops in the city were outraged by the unprovoked attack of the Danes. Half past eleven Amereican soldiers attacked a contingent of Danes lurking outside the Smithsonian. The battle, while inconclusive, caused the entire Danish contingent to retreat to the Capitol where they had previously erected defenses.

Shocked by the violence, the protestors, too, retreated. The next morning, however, buoyed by tens of thousands new arrivals, the huge mob began marching toward the Capitol. By ten thirty the students were joined by nearly a thousand guardsmen and approximately six thousand city police officers (most of the D.C. police went out on strike when Cheney announced he was outlawing unions). Waiting for the crowd were the eighteen thousand Danes, a handful of guardsmen and perhaps three hundred policemen; the Danes were armed with light artillery, heavy machine guns, mortars, hand grenades and military rifles.

At half past eleven news of Cheney's death swept through the crowd. A carnival atmosphere soon ensued with dancing, drinking and drug use filling the rest of the day until six. At that time came the sobering news of Falwell's assumption of the presidency. Dispirited, the mob of protesters slunk back to the suburbs like a huge, wounded snake.

If Cheney had been foolish, Falwell exhibited a totally mindless faith. Early on the 27th he ordered his troops to attack the protesters, most of whom were now in Chevy Chase, Maryland (at the time he claimed he acted on direct orders from Jesus; after the fall of the USC he said he had been duped by Tom Delay). The Danes, unaware of the police and guardsmen with the protesters, sent only two thousand troops after the students. The resulting clash went poorly for the Danes. The Americans had received news of the intended attack and ambushed the Danes just north of the district boundary line. The battle was brief, bruatal and, for the Americans, invigorating.

By two o'clock the first wave of joyous protesters was back in the city and approaching the capitol. At this point the Danes panicked. When the edge of the crowd was still a quarter mile from the Danish lines the troops opened fired with fifty machines guns and artillary fire. Students fell like discarded paper dolls in the attack and the resultant rush to retreat to safety. The massacre was televised from above by the BBC which had managed somehow to get a Canadian heliocopter over the city. Although well over half the American television stations refused to carry the BBC footage, in conformity with a Cheney “request”on the 24th for the media not to ”aggravate” the situation by broadcasting any images of turmoil in the country, the images on the internet of eighteen and nineteen year old boys and girls being chopped down by machine gun fire - from foreigners - galvanized the country. At the end of the day the total casualties on the American side stood at 268 dead and over 1,400 wounded.

268 DEAD, 1,433 WOUNDED, IN HALLOWEEN MASSACRE, WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 27, 2007

THE MIRACLE ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

From NEWSWEEK, 11/3/07

Where did they come from? How did it happen? They are calling it the miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue: a rag-tag battalion of Massachusetts' guardsmen too old to be sent to the middle east, together with 'Queen Hillary' (or "the Queen of Hearts", as she is now known far and wide) astride one of a dozen rusting tanks somehow recaptured the capitol and America's heart and soul! Not since the Union's victory at Gettysburg has one battle so shaped America's future. Put away your burkas, ladies...!

...hiding themseleves and their obsolete tanks in twenty tractor trailers, the Massachussets' good old boys stole down Highway 95 and surprised the hell out of our Danish friends... From the second battle of Chevy Chase to the Havarti Rout on the Hill Falwell and his dour United States for Christ were sent tumbling into the trashbin of American history. It was a day that will shine in the annals of American history until the last dog dies!


From the WASHINGTON POST, 11/3/07

JUBILIATION SWEEPS CAPITOL! FALWELL, DOBSON, DELAY ARRESTED. RESTORED CONGRESS DEMANDS HILLARY ACCEPT PRESIDENCY!! SENATOR LIEBERMAN VOWS TO HELP UNITE NATION


From the NEW YORK TIMES, 11/5/07

Once, twice the mighty crowd was frustrated, its disappointment made manifest in a cascade of echoing groans as its demand the Capitol's saviour embrace the Presidency went unanswered. As if it could will "Queen Hillary" to submit to its will, the crowd, numbered at well over one hundred thousand by the park police, surged toward the capitol building, the cries and chants and cheers rising ever louder like voices from on high. Finally, as the late fall sun cut through leaden clouds, she stepped forward, her arms raised. The throng went wild, crashing against the thin blue line in a unrestrained tsunami of joy...


From the BOSTON GLOBE, 11/6/07

HASTERT RESIGNS; HILLARY NAMED SENATE PRO TEM LEADER, WAY CLEARED FOR HER TO ASSUME WHITE HOUSE! LIEBERMAN VP SHOCKER


From the WASHINGTON POST, 11/8/07

CLINTON DECLARES AMNESTY; JAILS EMPTY OF ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS; FALLWELL CALLS PRESIDENT 'SAINT'

...Falwell announced plans to spend his remaining years rasing funds to build a shrine to Hillary Clinton in the Holyland....


From the LARRY KING LIVE phone interview with Michelle Malkin , 11/10/07

Larry King: Michelle, where are you?
Malkin: I'm not going to say, Larry, they're everywhere!
LK: Who, Michelle?
M: The Japanese, Larry; they're behind all of this, every bit of it.
LK: But why, Michelle? I don't understand...
M: It's revenge, Larry! Don't you understand? For the internment!
LK: ...What kind of president do you think Hillary will make?
M: Oh, God, Larry. It's the end. You know she eats babies? Live babies? I mean, raw, Larry, without any sauce, on a skewer...
LK: Michelle, thanks for that unique perspective. Next up: Monica Lewinski!

From the Elgin, Iowa, ECHO, 11/11/07

HARVEST SETS RECORD; ANTIQUE TRACTOR PARADE SATURDAY; TOWN DEMOCRAT RELEASED FROM JAIL

THE REIGN OF THE "QUEEN OF HEARTS"
HILLARY CLINTON , 2007-2013

(From A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE)
PART ONE

To say the presidency of Hillary Clinton was controversial would be a gross understatement. Indeed, it is hard to imagine any other presidency, even her husband's, which even remotely approached the level of fierce debate which Hillary's has generated over the past century plus. Every action, and reaction, and non-action, she took, every speach she gave, and even every gown she wore during her six turbulent years in the White House has been minutely scrutinized by virtually every political and social historian who has written since she left office in 2013. Amazingly, even today there is precious little consensus on both her and her years in charge of the American state.

Before examing the various positions of historians toward Clinton, we offer a brief catalog of Clinton's acheivements in her first three months in the White House:

Pardon of all political prisoners.
Recall of all troops from Syria and Iraq, suspension of air war against Iran.
Passage of Restoration of Fair and Balanced News Act of 2007.
Passage of Electoral Renewal Act of 2007, setting special federal elections for President and congress on March 15, 2008.
Passage of Danish and Cheese Forgiveness Act of 2008, re-establishing diplomatic and trade relations with Denmark and lifting the embargo on Havarti cheese.
With Oprah Winfrey as cohost, intitation of televised weekly talk program from the Oval Office in the White House.
Declaration of Hershey Kisses as national chocolate.


As benign as the above may appear, a legion of writers over the past twelve decades have found what they see as profound misteps and corrupt political manuevering by Clinton even in those first three months. Others have seen in her actions a genuine and selfless attempt by Clinton to rebuild the very moral foundation of the nation.

By way of example, we offer the following two divergent views toward the first months of the reign of America's first female president. First, from Ralph Reed, a near contemporary of Clinton, writing in 2024 (PILLARS OF SALT, Burning Bush Press, pp. 113-114):

“Without shame Clinton cynically manipulated her sudden burst of self-manufactured popularity after the fall of Falwell ( which she actually had very little hand in) to force the Congress into early elections. No doubt realizing her popularity would wane once the nation grasped her true intentions, she bulldozed the still dazed Senate and House into accepting an election in just five months, an election in which every single house and senate seat would be at stake. The appalled Republicans knew the risk; if Hillary's popularity remained high there was the likelyhood the Democrats would capture large majorities in each body. Awed by the 88% approval rate which the liberal polls claimed Clinton enjoyed, suddenly timid Republican leadership fell before her clever attack (plotted by her husband). Recognizing the naked grab for power for what is was, cooler and braver Republican heads tried to stop the stampede toward the Hillary bandwagon but failed. Alas, the worst came to pass and the Congressional Republicans were decimated in March as a rabble of secular humanists, atheists, homosexuals and radicals claiming to be moderate "Clinton democrats" siezed control of the levers of government in March 2008.

Pending the elections, Clinton insured she took only steps which would not diminish her standings in the polls. However greviously it injured U.S. foreign policy for decades to come, her craven and abject abandonment of the mideast struggle for freedom proved popular with a public grown weary of war. Her rapproachment with the Danes pleased both the European and the American elites. Her strangely popular sellout to the Hershey chocolate interests was a dark harbinger of the corruption to come. Her weekly television ”chats” with Oprah Winfrey, an obscenely wealthy black entertainer and former welfare queen, were perfectly staged yet utterly devoid of any substance yet they soothed a nation still shaken by the unfortunate events following George W. Bush's suspicious bout of mental illness.

Despite the smiling face she presented to the citizenry during her televised Christmas Day White House extravaganza (at a cost to the taxpayers of three million dollars), in the winter gloom she, her husband and their minions were plotting nothing less than the total destruction of the American republic and the imposition of a Stalinist regime.”

This opposing view is from G.D. Liddy, Jr., writing in The New 'New Republic' in 2033 (”Setting Things Straight”, June 3, 2033). It is almost as if he's describing a different Hillary Clinton altogether:

“It is nigh impossible today to properly appreciate the profound joy which flooded throughout America more than a quarter century ago when Hillary Clinton, a true modern day Joan d'Arc, routed the Danes and the minions of the United States for Christ. The terrible threat of theocratic oppression was vanquished by one extraordinary woman. Congress was restored; America was saved from the ruin which had been creeping over the country since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. The American dream of an end to racism, sexism, ageism, classism, militarism, homophobism, sinophobism (and the near undending slew of all those other dispicable "isms" dogging human kind) was reborn.

That Hillary did not desire the Presidency cannot be doubted. Twice she risked, perhaps, her own personal safety by refusing the roaring crowd what it so fiercely demanded. As she wrote in her memoirs, she would have much preferred to return to her home in Arkansas and spend time with her husband and her beloved grandchild. Like George Washington before her, she reluctantly accepted what amounted to election by aclamation only because of her pure love for, and devotion to, her country.

Her first 100 days were brilliant. Ending what had become America's second Vietnam, she pulled all our forces out of the middle east quagmire. The cynical and repugnant Republican attempts in January and February of 2008 to brand her a traitor failed. America was once against respected by the rest ofthe world, even, finally, by the French. Quoting Lincoln's lines from the second innaugral (”with carity for all...), she ordered the release of all political prisoners held in federal or state custody and officially forgave the Danes. How hard it must have been for her to see those vile right-wing traitors, many who had wanted to imprison her (or worse), walk free. With a great female Afro-Amereican at her side, she spoke often, and simply, from her heart, to the American people from the White House in talks reminiscent of FDR's fireside chats. Even her adoption of the Hershey kiss was a pure stroke of genuis; America was starved for simple sweetness. Quite clearly, those first 100 days were a season of love, and forgiveness, and joy, and saw a begining of the hard, slow work of rebuilding America.”

As the Republicans had feared, the March election proved for them a disaster. The sentiment in the country was overwhelmingly pro-Clinton and pro-democrat. Gary Bauer, the party's standard bearer for president, became so depressed he literally stopped campaigning two weeks prior to the election. Over a hundred Republican house members "retired" in late February and early March. Another two dozen converted to the democratic party.

The early returns on March 15, 2008, told the story. Hillary won in a record landslide with 74.7% of the popular vote. By the morning of March 16, 2008, the resurgent democrats held 352 house seats and 73 in the senate. Virtually every democrat elected that night was fiercely loyal to Hillary Clinton.

However it may now be viewed, Clinton's tenure in office prior to the elections of March 2008 was merely the lull before the storm. With the federal government firmly in her grip, backed by overwhelming democratic majorities in both houses of congress, she elected to pursue a new, more activist agenda. Beginning almost the very day after the election, she set to reshaping American society and law, and even the Constitution itself, in profound and, for many, troubling ways.

MARCH 16, 2008

Hillary's radical new agenda took the country by storm. There was serious secession talk in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. Cooler heads prevailed in the three state legislatures when it became obvious that three landlocked, under populated states largely dependent on federal largesse could not hope to go it alone. Still, anger bubbled up from the western grassroots. In the east, however, President Clinton's plan to outlaw all firearms was surprisingly popular. Whatever else was true, it was a heady time. Politics and policy was talked about everywhere.
Hillary, saint or sinner (or the devil, or worse), that was the universal question.
But if America was stunned by Hillary's initial proposals to ban guns and repeal Bush's tas cuts, they would be even more suprised in the weeks and months to come. In May she proposed a change in the first amendment to allow congress to ban "hate speech". By executive order she removed all federal restrictions on abortions and quickly led congress in restoring medicaid funding for abortion. Also at her behest, congress made it a felony, punishable by five years, to "intimidate, harrass, bother, or annoy any woman seeking an abortion or to attempt to prevent her, by any means, including verbal inducement, from obtaining abortion services." When this statute was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2009 Hillary and the democrat congress added four justices to the court. The next year the statute was upheld 7-4. In June of 2008 the President pushed the "Equal Marriage Opportunity Act" through the house and senate effectively legalizing same sex marriage across the county. This time it was Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama that festered with talk of civil war. By July 4th, 2008, as the nation paused to celebrate its birthday, it seemed about to burst at the seams.

In memorium