Dear Mr. President,
There is one way - precisely one way - you can leave office with history regarding you as anything other than a profoundly corrupt, incompetent failure. I will share that way with you; I offer you the opportunity to in some small way redeem your misadministration.
Your presidency will of course be regarded as a profoundly corrupt, incompetent failure - for reasons ranging from an illegal war, fought with inadequate troops, fed by corrupt contractors, through torture, illegal wiretaps, assaults on the Constitution, unprecedented deficits, to letting down the country's guard and thereby enabling the tragedy of 9/11, to staffing FEMA with incompetent cronies and thereby enabling the tragedy of Katrina. Nothing I suggest can change that. That bed cannot be unshat.
What you can do is to leave some positive accomplishments to offset the vast collection of negative accomplishments of your administration. Since the people with whom you have aligned yourself until now have only an anti-American agenda - since all they want is to enrich themselves, to establish an American theocracy, and to give concrete legislative expression to their hatred of gays and minorities - you must realign yourself with people who support America. I refer, of course, to Democrats.
Go along with congressional Democrats and we can achieve great things for America and Americans in the next two years. We can implement universal health care. We can get out of Iraq. We can begin to act against global warming with realistic, achievable CAFE standards without loopholes; we can begin to reverse the deficit. We can work to ensure true equality for women, minorities, and gays.
This represents a big turnaround for you, of course - but it should not be difficult. Nobody is under any illusions about your principles - you have none. Your former supporters from the various fragmented factions of the Republican already despise you; stabbing them in the back in this way will not drive them further away.
That's it, Mr. President; that's what you can do. If you interfere with the Democratic agenda, you will be remembered only as a failure; go along with us and we will at least remember some positive accomplishments from your administration.
Sincerely,
/s/ cmanaster
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