This button (available at StickerGiant.com) pretty much sums up the malaise currently afflicting the once noble republic. If the sentiment seems harsh, then to you I can only say "baa."

The cause of the people—the average people, not the over-monied brats indulged by the RNC—has been much neglected since the passing of the Clinton administration. But it would seem that the donut-eating, F(oxymoron) News watching worm is finally beginning to turn. In a recent Washington Post/ABC poll Bush got his lowest ever approval rating of just 39%. Apparently, it only took us five years to realize he's shit.

But the same poll also revealed that just 40% actually trusted him. There is a crucial difference between trust and approval. Approval ratings are a poor indicator as they are fickle and transitory by nature. Daddy Bush, for example, saw his approval rating plummet 20 points in one six-week period in late 1990, then hit 90% at the end of the first Gulf war. Approval can fluctuate, but when the majority of the people no longer trust you as a president, you're pretty much done.

As a Bush-hater, I can't help but smile when I read of his discomfit. Not necessarily because he's a prick, but because any setback he suffers in applying his damaging agenda can only be good for America. With said agenda now a jacuzzi-full of bubbles off-plumb, it seems that the clock is ticking for Bush, Inc. with even the hardcore wing nuts asking "President who?" But there lies the worry – if they no longer trust Bush, who do they trust?

It's difficult to imagine the war-loving Kristian neocons, so red in neck and claw, jumping ship to hang with the abortion-loving, evolutionist Demoncrats. Sure, Bush looks dead in the water right now, but that doesn't mean it's time for Hillary to start practicing the oath of office. Red staters might not like Bush so much now, but they still really hate Democrats. The fact that they're turning their backs on the dented golden boy can only mean one thing: they've got a replacement in mind. Yes, there'll be some as-yet-obscure eminence noir being groomed to re-win the stony hearts and narrow minds of Jeezuzland as we speak. And the thought alone is enough to make me break out in hives...

Yup, fellow lefties, I hate to be a party pooper, but no-one should ever assume the neocons are down and out until Karl Rove is floating in a jar of formaldehyde at Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum. These bastards hate to lose elections almost as much as Democrats hate to win them. Howard: Please send help before it's too late!

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There's one thing a politically impotent hump like Fried Wire can do to kid myself I'm changing the world a little. And that's bitch on the Internet. Unfortunately, I have no political party, no TV network and no-one wants to listen to me. But there's always the Web.

I recently wrote about Frederick Meekins after noticing how many search returns he was getting online with his wing nut/Nazi essays. The guy seemed to be everywhere at once with over 70,000 search results to his name — a veritable not-so invisible empire. But not one search yielded "Frederick Meekins is a racist twat" which seemed amiss. Now, however, the record is set straight (see below).

Meekins may or may not be a twat (though a strong case could be made for twathood) but the fact he is a racist is precisely that: a big fat fact. Take, for example, this OpinioNet posting where he takes umbrage with the American Bible Society for printing a picture of Martin Luther King in one of its Bible editions. Fred accuses them of "propagating more of the Devil’s work than promoting the will of the Lord" for sucking up to MLK. "Even though this famed clergyman receives greater respect than Christ Himself among the nation’s liberal elites, Dr. King was hardly what could be considered a faithful shepherd of the Lord’s flock" opines the miserable, racist bastard. Fred's home site is "American Worldview Dispatch" — the same American Worldview Dispatch that runs the suspiciously germanic sounding 'Weltan's Blog' which contains the mother lode of Meekins rantings. Evidenced by a sampling of its opinions, 'American Worldview' seems more 'Third Reich Worldview' than anything Yankee-doodle-dandy that I'm familiar with. With headlines like "Rampaging Ragheads Set Disabled Woman On Fire" (November 4, 2005) and "Tolerancemongers Rampage In Ohio" (15 October, 2005) it's fairly easy to see where this cracker's coming from.

Meekins has many bêtes noir (pun intended): Kwanzaa is a black supremacist plot to destroy Christmas, Bill Cosby is a spearhead of the New World Order (is it the sweaters that give him away?), and affirmative action is the devil's own plot to put the white race out of work. Bile is also reserved for Black History Month: "Why is there even a Black History Month? I don’t remember there being one where we clap for people just because they are White." Here Fred employs the time-honored excuse of accusing the other side of racism first (the old fuckwitted 'minorities oppressing whitey' bullshit that didn't even work on Archie Bunker) to make his drooling white supremacism seem less offensive and merely defensive. And, if Fred's 'keeping it too real for you', you're always free to go home. "Those whose hearts are elsewhere are always free to return to their places of origin if they find our way of life all that odious" he says. I guess Fred could never get his pinhead around the fact that you don't have to be a minority to hate him. If this prick represents the white race, I'm changing my name to Yusef and filling out an application for the Nation of Islam ASAP.

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GREAT PIONEERS OF NEOCON THOUGHT #21