A is for Abu-Graib. Admission accomplished. Happily, all of the women responsible for perpetrating the torture, degradation and unspeakable humiliation have been named and/or punished.
B is for Bolton, hard-driving, hard-headed, abusive, butt-kicking diplomat.
C is for Congress. A debatable society - formerly a separate branch of the US government.
D stands for the Reverend Dobson, Man of God, who acts with the certainty that the term is meant to be read the other way around.
E is for Enron, a firm which could publish a cooking-the-books cookbook, whose executives will answer for their crimes just as soon as the office cleaning women all fess up.
F is for Senator Frist, who would obviously rather be righteous than president.
G stands for Guantanamo Bay. And for gulag. And for Goebbels. And, sadly, for GWB.
H is for Huffington, whose space has launched a thousand quips; whose post at times resembles a rich kids' high school newspaper.
I is for Iraqmire - a situation created when you bring the Wild West into the Middle East.
J stands for Jeb, a member of the dynasty that has caused all too many others to do just that.
K is our man in Afghanistan, Karzai - as played by another K: Ben Kingsley.
L is for Lynne Cheney, logical enough for the L word.
M is for the Media, the means by which a handful of enlightened men make billions by keeping billions in the dark.
N stands for Nixon, patron saint of the gates: first, Watergate, next Iran-Contragate, and hopefully the inevitable accounting by the present administration: Abrogate.
O is for O'Reilly, fair and balanced moralist/phone sex enthusiast.
P brings us to Richard Perle - smooth as silk, and the worms that make it.
Q is for the Queer Guy who seems forever stuck in the straight eye.
R stands for Mr. Rove, the hand inside our bully puppet.
S is for Arlen Spector, whose words from the heart go unheard by those in the White House who have none.
T is for Trent Lott. And whoever thought we'd ever miss him?
U is for the United Nations - still the best hope to protect civilization from itself.
V stands for Vladimir Putin, or "Vlady," as he is called by the same man who dubbed the above Mr. Rove "Turd Blossom."
W Who else but Wolfowitz to lead the World Bank? Who else but a man who has trouble adding up body bags?
X is for Tom DeLay, the ex-exterminator. (A bit of a cheat but, then, sweets for the sweet.)
Y Young Man's Christian Association = Ralph Reed and Gary Bauer.
Z is for Zell - loud, living proof that there is no fury like a Democrat scorned.