The First Bushippic

From Demosthenes's First Philippic, 351 BCE. I didn't have to change this one very much. It's too close to real life.

For observe, [Americans], the height to which [Bush]'s insolence has soared; he leaves you no choice of action or inaction; he blusters and talks big, according to all accounts; he cannot rest content with what he has conquered; he is always taking in more, everywhere casting his net round us, while we sit idle and do nothing.

When, [Americans], will you take the necessary action? What are you waiting for? Until you are compelled, I presume. But what are we to think of what is happening now? For my own part I think that for a free people there can be no greater compulsion than shame for their position. Or tell me, are you content to run round and ask one another, "Is there any news today?" Could there be any news more startling than that a [criminal] is triumphing over [the Constitution] and settling the destiny of [democracy]?

"[Did Kerry win]?" you ask. "No, indeed; [Bush got re-elected]." And what is that to you? Even [in 2008], you will soon raise up a second [neocon], if that is the way you attend to your affairs; for even this [neocon] has not grown great through his own unaided strength so much as through our carelessness.