Washington AC/DC - (Withdrawal Mess): George Bush has blamed bingeing alkies for the mess America is in.
Speaking at a Relapsed Assholes Anonymous meeting Bush railed at Off-The Wall-Street dealers who couldn't hold their liquor "or their goddam pretzels for Chrissakes, hic."
Global financial turmoil erupted this year after American banks went on a bender.
The biggest borrower fuelling the collapse of worldwide monerary credit has, of course, been Bush's personal posse of big oil gun slingers, a.k.a. the Pentagon.
Economists have calculated that by the time Bush leaves office he will have gorged himslef on around $500 trillion of taxpayers' hard-earned money.
"I guess that's why his bankruptcy records are still shrouded in the US National Secrets Act," a top CIA source shrugged today.
Dick Cheney is bi-polar.