BUSH CHANGES HIS NAME

PRESIDENT BUSH CHANGES HIS NAME

First Lady reported mad enough to spit.

Washington, DC. -- Dubya now officially Moe H. Bush

As reported by C.C. Nouel in Brownsville, Texas and Ludwig Van Volkswagen in Limbo, West Virginia. With additional reporting by Giovanni Lasagna in Rome and Hermoine Brilliantine in Liverpool

July 10, 2005

In spite of concerns by Paul Wolfowitz,Karl Rove and other presidential advisers, and over the objections of his own mother, President George W. Bush has made public the fact that he changed his name legally to Moe Howard Bush prior to the July 4th Holiday. " I loved the Three Stooges as a child, specially Moe, and besides it made my trip to Europe to attend the meeting of the G8 even more interesting" stated the President at an impromptu press conference. Members of the DC. press corps were left stunned after the announcement and many were seeing rushing to their lap top computers to transmit the shocking news to their respective news organizations.

A reporter for the National Blabber Newspaper, and a well known critic of now President Moe Howard Bush,who preferred to remain nameless, stated; "This president has proven to all of us that he really is a master politician, this is a brilliant move on his part, I am truly amazed and may even vote for him in 2008"

Within hours of his spectacular announcement President Moe Howard Bush is reported to have received numerous calls of congratulations from friends and foes alike. It is reported that Saddam Hussein, in a well guarded prison in Iraq, sent the President a congratulatory audio recording. According to reliable sources Saddam is supposed to have asked President Moe Howard Bush for forgiveness and begged for his palaces and power back, the same sources report that the President just had this to say: " Get out a heeere" and poked at the air with two fingers.

Former Presidential Democratic candidate Howard Dean and now the Chairman of the DNC reacted angrily at the news by accusing the President of stealing his name, " I should be the only Howard in politics, by changing his name to Moe Howard Bush the president is just trying to steal my thunder". Reporters caught up with Dean at the Ames (Iowa) Free Clinic where he was testing men for Prostate cancer, Dr. Dean was offering free Digital Rectal Exams( DRE's) to any Republican men over age 40 who wanted to be checked.

There are unsubstantiated reports that Vice-president Dick Chaney had considered changing his name to Groucho Marx but was hesitant because of the stigma attached to the name, "I am no Marxist, never have been one, never will be one" stated the VP. When asked about the possibilty of a name change in the future, he did say that the name "Curly Joe" did have a certain appeal.