note:Abigail Perlman, Roy Blunt's new wife, former flack for Phillip Morris, was a high profile lobbyist for Kraft and the Organic Trade Association's recent Sneak Attack on Organic Standards, rammed through Congress by the Republican majority as part of the 2006 Agriculture Appropriation's Bill.
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Poor GW. The Democrats are asking for apologies, and apologies are one thing he just can't do. Can't apologize for the CIA leaks. Can't feel sorry for getting us into Iraq. Can't apologize for Katrina, for high oil prices or excessive cronyism. If one, just one of his heroes, John Wayne, let's say, had just leaned into the camera and said, "Sorry darlin', I'm gonna change my cheatin' ways," or whatever he'd say, well, maybe he'd have a role model, drop the cool pose, act human.

But he can't imagine it. The house of cards is beginning to tumble, and just when there's time for a breath of fresh air he finds that heathens have filled the moats with alligators and surrounded the walls with terrorists in U-Haul trucks. It's a scary world.

His dad's smartest advisors -- Tom, Dick and Karly -- say he should hold steady, but they're all implicated. When they say, "We'll hang together," they mean hang.

But there's a whole new generation of advisors just ready to help him. Trouble is, they're all from the same genetically identical cesspool.

For example, take Roy Blunt. Please.
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Margot Ford McMillen farms and teaches English at a college in Fulton, Mo. Email Margotfulton@aol.com.
From The Progressive Populist, Dec. 1, 2005