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• Signed a bill making it harder for poor and middle-class Americans to file for bankruptcy, even when facing overwhelming medical bills

• Appointed affirmative action opponent Kay Cole James to direct the Office of Personnel Management

• Cut $15.7 million from programs dealing with child abuse and neglect

• Proposed elimination of the “Reading Is Fundamental” program, which gives free books to poor children

• Pushed for development of “mini-nukes,” designed to attack deeply buried targets—a violation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

• Tried to reverse regulation protecting sixty million acres of national forest from logging and road building

• Appointed John Bolton, an opponent of nonproliferation treaties and the United Nations, as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security

• Made Monsanto executive Linda Fisher deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

• Nominated Michael McConnell, a leading critic of the separation of church and state, to a federal judgeship

• Nominated civil rights opponent Terrence, Boyle to a federal judgeship

• Canceled the 2004 deadline for auto makers to develop prototype high-mileage cars

• Named John Walters, an ardent opponent of prison drug treatment programs, as drug czar

• Appointed oil and coal lobbyist J. Steven Giles as Deputy Secretary of the Interior

• Named Bennett Raley, who has called for the repeal of the Endangered Species Act, as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science

• Sought the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit filed in the United States against Japan by Asian women forced to work as sex slaves in World War II

• Appointed as solicitor general Ted Olson, your chief lawyer in the Florida voting debacle

• Proposed to ease the permit process for constructing refineries and nuclear and hydroelectric dams, including lowering environmental standards

• Proposed the selling of oil and gas tracts in the Alaska Wildlife Preserve

Whew! I’m tired just typing this list! Where do you get the energy? (It is the naps, isn’t it?)

Of course, a lot of the above is supported by many Democrats (and I’ll have a few words for them later in the book).

But right now, I’m concerned about you. Think back—what was your first act as “President“? You remember: before you would get in the car to ride down Pennsylvania Avenue in your inaugural parade, you insisted someone get a screwdriver and take the D.C. license plates off the limo because they contained the words “Support D.C. Statehood.” Here it is, the biggest day of your life, and you’re pissed at the license plates? You have GOT to relax!

I guess, though, I started worrying about you long before that day. A number of disturbing revelations regarding your behavior surfaced during the campaign. Eventually they went away, but I continue to have concerns about your ability to function on the job. Please don’t take this as prying or moralizing—we’ll leave that to Cheney! It is simply an honest attempt at intervention from a close friend of the family.

Let me be blunt: I’m afraid you may be a threat to our national security.

That may seem a bit strong, but I don’t make this statement lightly. It has nothing to do with our minor disagreements regarding executing innocent people on death row, or how much of Alaska to carve up with oil rigs. And I’m not questioning your patriotism—I’m sure you’d love any country that’s been this good to you.

Rather, it has to do with a number of behaviors many of us who care for you have witnessed over the years. Some of these habits are a little surprising; some you can’t control; and others are, unfortunately, all too common among us Americans.

Because you have your finger on The Button (you know, the one that could blow up the world), and because decisions you make have vast and far-reaching consequences for the stability of said world, I would like to ask you three pointed questions—and I would like you to give me, and the American people, three honest answers:

1. George, are you able to read and write on an adult