Top 11 thoughts read by a clairvoyant* when Dubya explained that taxing the rich doesn't work because, "the really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway." - 08/10/04

11. "Yeah. They vote for you."

10. "So why did you bother cutting their taxes... three times?"

9. "An entire segment of the population not paying their taxes? Someone in a position of power should do something about that. Maybe we could elect someone."

8. "Class Warfare! Er, eh... Class Appeasement! Class Appeasement."

7. "A Republican incumbent resorting to a populist theme in Virginia? He must be toast!."

6. "Yes, but what he meant to say was, 'September the Eleventh, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, War on Terror... Boo!"

5. "So, we should tolerate terrorism because terrorists don't surrender themselves?"

4. "Is he so insulated from reality, that he thinks he can win by pitting the rich against the 'really' rich?"

3. "Send this one back to 'Manchurian Global.' It's got a bug."

2. "Weren't we told that the rich were getting larger tax cuts because they had paid MORE?"

1. "Kerry thought he could run to my right, but I'm running to his left and to his right at the same time. Karl Rove's gonna love my new strategery!"

*Clairvoyant was used because attendees feared violating the terms of their loyalty oath.

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