Here is my one political prediction for the year, and a no doubt staggeringly accurate one at that. Sometime in the next several months, a coquettish and unusually rotund Martian who reveals herself by placard as "Lula" exposes 11 of her 16 breasts to the camera on the Mars Rover Oppurtunity, causing scandal and consternation throughout Bush's America. There are immediate recriminations against NASA - why was there no time delay installed on the Oppurtunity's cameras? How could you let this happen when schoolchildren were visiting NASA headquarters? Think of the children! These recriminations subside, however, as the administration and the congress focus their sights on the real issue : Martian degeneracy. Bush vows to make Martian moral hygiene a central issue of his reelection campaign, and the chief focus of his second term in office. The SCLM swoons, with newspapers from New York to LA praising Mr. Bush's "bold and courageous stand against a Martian civilization of sleaze." The congress immediately appropriate half a trillion dollars (of Chinese bankers' money - indeed the last three dozen Chinese bankers still willing to buy our t notes) and vast quantities of crystal meth ("there will be no more sleep for scientists!" head of NASA says) to build a spacecraft in six months or less to send Michael Powell and representatives from Jerry Falwell's Liberty University to Mars to investigate this gross obscenity fully, and convert the Martian population to Christianity. Like everything Bush does - the war in Iraq, the economy - it will be a smashing success, and there will be calls to amend the constitution so that Mr. Bush may serve as president for life, "huntin' down the terra' and cleanin' up Mars."