There it was in my mailbox, a Grade A, US Government Inspected, Tax Rebate check for three hundred smackers, courtesy of George W. and those unbuffalo'd members of Congress, who decided to trust me with my own money. The car rental for my Ireland trip in the latter part of August just got a significant upgrade, ( an automatic transmission, since I don't want to be downshifting my door handle as I approach one of them round-about things). Even my bank teller was smiling as I deposited it, as sure as the last missle test.

And I have no problem spending it on me, as I worked hard three times to get it. Once to earn the money and pay my taxes, once in getting it by the McCain people, and finally by urging my fellow West Virginians to vote Republican for the first time since the Civil War, and being the State that put W over. (Actually the local newspapers chucked it up to the "repugnance of the WV voters over Clinton's repellent behavior.")

Now I know that the Democrats think that it is just horrible that some of their constituent group's favorite charities are not getting my hard-earned tax money, so I thought I would give them a chance to help us benighted Republicans to see the light, by telling us how much they are getting in the Tax Rebate, and to which charities they are donating the WHOLE amount to, so as to ensure that we could not construe any hypocracy from their previous statements, and former positions.

I know that with all the heartfelt ardor with which they espoused their positions against the "foolish tax rebate," they cannot possibly keep any of the money, and still maintain a moral outlook on life.

So what's it for; voter education in Florida?, the Jesse Jackson Unwed Mother Fund?, perhaps the Clinton Pardon Purchase Plan? (I understand they're still taking installment payments).

I offer this thread for those who not only earned enough money to pay taxes, (thereby having an actual monetary stake in the outcome of the past election), and having previouly been indued with only with a breathless opinion, they now the money to back it up.

To those who clearly and honestly intend to give their Tax Rebate money to what they perceive as a worthwhile cause, I truely and honestly salute you. If it's to some person who never earned a dime, you truely do believe in welfare.

But for those special children who may try and finesse the question with a testy answer and no substance, we.. will.. know...