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No, Bush Can't

Someone created a clever bit of satire called Yes, Bush Can!, supposedly a citizen initiative supporting Bush that changed its mind after touring the country and decided to support Kerry instead. The group just sent an email that says

Last week, the group officially split with Bush. "In the course of
our travels, we ended up learning more about Bush's policies than he
wanted us to know," said Harmon Spellmeyer, one of the Yes, Bush Can
team. "We came to see that this administration is a catastrophe for
most people."

Before breaking with Bush, the Yes, Bush Can team worked earnestly to
support him. They went to the Pacific Northwest to promote Bush's
Healthy Forests Initiative--and discovered it was enabling the
logging industry to cut down our last old-growth forests. They
visited a nuclear power plant in Ohio to promote Bush's domestic
security policies--and found no one in the guard booth to meet them.
In western Pennsylvania, while promoting the President's energy
policy, they learned that it allows coal emissions which kill 23,000
people a year. Finally, while defending Bush's war on terrorism, they
found out that even Donald Rumsfeld feels the Iraq War has made the
world a more dangerous place.

After many similar discoveries and much internal turmoil, the Yes,
Bush Can group arrived at the difficult conclusion that they could no
longer continue their work. At a press conference Tuesday, in order
to demonstrate how profoundly they are rejecting their former boss's
ideas and policies, the team defaced and abandoned the bus they had
purchased and outfitted.

My favorite page on the site is The USA Patriot Pledge, which includes inspired bits like this:

President Bush, with Attorney General John Ashcroft, has met the threat of terrorism at home with the USA PATRIOT Act. The Act has encountered more liberal opposition than anything else the President has done, even though <patriotic, law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from it. Liberals simply refuse to believe that Americans are prepared to make meaningful sacrifices to support the war on terrorism.

THE USA PATRIOT PLEDGE

I volunteer to give up some constitutional rights to support the war on terrorism.

Specifically:
I volunteer to allow government agents to search my home without warrant.
I volunteer to have my phone tapped and my internet use monitored.
I volunteer to allow government agents access to my medical records.