White House Opens Door to Dissenters -- And So Do I!

According to an article in today's Washington Post, a "White House long accused of squelching internal dissent and ignoring outside viewpoints has been reaching out in its moment of weakness to prominent figures who have disagreed with the president."

Not surprisingly, given the uncanny similarity between the lives of me & George W., I, Paul M. Sark have been reaching out, too. Here's what I mean:

According to the Post, White House communications director Nicolle Wallace said: "The notion that there hasn't been debate here over the last 5 1/2 years is flat wrong. But it's also true that there's more people with more ideas and perspectives, and that's good."

According to Paul M. Sark, Paul M. Sark said: "The notion that I haven't pretended to listen to the ridiculous opinions of my liberal sister-in-laws over the last 15 1/2 years is flat nuts. But it's also true that now that they've all either got husbands or boyfriends there's a lot more people with more ridiculous liberal ideas and perspectives -- if you can call them that. And that's good in a way because now they're so busy splitting hairs on their anti-American liberal positions that I can think about freedom without all the interruption."

In an example of the new openness at the White House, the Post story said:

"When retired Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey criticized the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war three years ago, he was lambasted as an armchair general and deemed an adversary by the Pentagon. So even McCaffrey was surprised to find himself in the Oval Office this week giving President Bush his thoughts on Iraq.

In an example of the new openness in the Sark House, Paul M. Sark said:

"When my sister-in-law Ginger criticized my reading her email and crashing her best friend's wedding, I lambasted her as an enemy of freedom and an adversary of liberty. I'll bet Ginger was suprised I was willing to eat lunch with her at Bennigan's two Saturday's ago, and even more surprised I was willing to hear her ridiculous comparison of a malfunctioning fire alarm to torture at that prison in Iraq."

Me & George W. know that sometimes in the interest of spreading American freedom, you've got to give your enemies the impression they have a say in things. Lull them to sleep, then -- bang! -- you hit 'em with a bunker buster and declare victory.

Then, before they know what hit them, you move on to the next threat against universal freedom and liberty, leaving your enemies in the dust with their antique ideas about democracy spinning round and round in their liberal heads and that "cuckoo, cuckoo" sound ringing in their ears.

God bless American freedom!

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