"There is an unease in America now and it's because of the war."
-George W. Bush
May was another dreary, difficult month for our fearful leader. First he finds out that his hero had been married and to a woman who used to be thought of as a prostitute but now is considered the top disciple. His popularity sinks to a ridiculous 20-something percent as US News and World Report asks on its June cover, "How Low Can He Go"? -a question his family probably has been asking since he was a teenager.
And now, he is the object of scorn in an onslaught of musical anger. He has been called on the carpet by rock' roll. Neil Young, the prolific rock genius, dedicated his latest album, "Living With War" to stripping the emperor and exposing the lies and deceit that corporate media like to ignore.

Recorded two months ago in six days, the album suggests the remedy to our long national nightmare on "Let's Impeach the President," and has been described by Rolling Stone's David Frick as the "political album of the year."

Concurrently, the top selling female group of all time, the Dixie Chicks, released their seventh album, "Taking the Long Way" and continued to voice their contempt for the president. "I don't feel he deserves any respect whatsoever," said lead singer Natalie Maines, who three years ago caused a firestorm by announcing she was "ashamed" that Bush was from her home state of Texas.

And if all this weren't enough, and its not, Fox News reports that Madonna's current "Confessions" tour not only includes the star being crucified, but is riddled with verbal and visual jabs at the great pretender. Only rock and roll but someone's got to do it.

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Remember the Alamo. The Senate has ok'd a $1.2 billion, 370-mile fence for the Mexican border. That's $3.2 million per mile. But this isn't just any fence. It's a three-ply fence. I feel so safe.

While Bush prepares to send 6,000 National Guardsmen to the border, an internal Border Patrol memo seems to indicate they aren't wanted or needed. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-SC) who released the document, told CNN's Lou Dobbs the Border Patrol is "demoralized" by the lack of support from Washington.

In 2004, there were 289 arrests of suspected immigrant smugglers but only six percent were prosecuted, Issa said. "Six thousand National Guardsmen are not the answer." Dobbs called Bush's action, which has no clear end date or cost, "an absurd fig leaf in a political veil."

A free internet video game has as its object the shooting and killing of Mexican men, women and children as they try to cross the American border. Other games target blacks, homosexuals and Jews.

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Bush's "Mission Accomplished" farce three years ago cost the American taxpayer $1 million and the General Accounting Office now says that in the last two years, the White House has spent $1.6 million on public relations. Court TV's Catherine Crier urged the Big Spender to "please stop spending our money to tell us how well you're doing. Just do it." CNN reports Italy and Japan want to pull out of Iraq now, mission accomplished or not.

While several polls, including the Wall Street Journal put Bush's popularity below 30 percent, wife Laura retaliated with, "don't really believe those polls." Does she think it's actually worse? KGO's Bernie Ward described Bush's influence on the upcoming congressional elections as similar to "the skunk at the picnic." Shouldn't a president be automatically impeached when his popularity reaches zero percent? Bush made much ado about Iraq's "new" Parliament, claiming "a new day for the millions of Iraqis who want to live in freedom," (Mission accomplished yet?) but asked for "more patience" from the American people. No thanks.

"We will continue to assist the Iraqis," he added. But the month of April saw the killing of at least 650 innocent Iraqi civilians, according to Baghdad Body Count, and Fox News says the Pentagon is investigating the reported killing of at least two dozen civilians in Hadetta, Iraq by US Marines who allegedly covered up the carnage. In a speech in Chicago recently, Bush claimed "democracy is the hope of the Middle East and the destiny of the world."

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While tens of thousands of anti-war protesters marched in New York City, Bush warned of "more days of sacrifice and struggle." By whom? Maybe the Bush girls signed up for duty in Iraq.

And the House ethics committee has not opened a new case or launched an investigation in over a year, despite mucho corruption from which to pick, including the role of our trigger-happy vice president in the awarding of an avalanche of no-bid government contracts to his former employer Haliburton. And KGO reminds us that the Carlyle Group, the arms sales wing of the Bush and Bin Laden families, is headquartered next door to the White House. Saves on gas. "There was nothing too small to be investigated in the Clinton administration and there's nothing so big that it can't be ignored in the Bush administration," said Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Los Angeles).

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Syndicated radio commentator Paul Harvey tells us that before Bush, Oil company CEOs received $10 for every $1 earned by employees. Now, that ratio is $430 to $1.

Corporations were responsible for one-third of the government's income before Bush but now contribute only 10 percent, thanks to Generous George handing out $2 trillion in tax cuts for the rich since taking over. CNN reports that the Bush administration spent $900 million for mobile homes that were never used in New Orleans. And its just part of the billions wasted on such things as hotel rooms ($632 million) and cruise ship cabins ($5,000 per month) that sat empty.

To quote George Harrison, "It's all too much," or not enough.