Tens of thousands of protestors rocked Washington's National Mall on January 27 as George W. Bush rolled his bike at a Secret Service training facility in Beltsville, Md.

Juveniles with T-shirts sporting effigy-like images of their delinquent leader chanted “End the lunacy; end it now.”

A man on stilts dressed as Abraham Lincoln, carried a sign saying “But you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

A man in prison stripes impersonated Vice President Dick Cheney, who in a recent interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer dismissed as "hogwash" the "premise" that blunders may have hurt the administration's credibility on Iraq.

Responding to a vice president up to his ears in the North African river The Nile, 12-year-old Moriah Arnold stood on her toes to reach the microphone saying, "Now we know our leaders either lied to us or hid the truth. Because of our actions, the rest of the world sees us as a bully and a liar."

Whether 100,000 or 400,000 as debated by the organizers and the police, the protestors mirrored over two-thirds of disillusioned Americans tearing their lungs at the polls for the immediate release of their "sons and daughters" from Bush's "fraudulent war" machine.

The nationwide rallies came three days after Bush delivered his State of the Union address before a hostile Congress and against an awkward backdrop of irrefutable facts and figures.

To address the former, Bush opened his 5710-word speech with attempts at appeasing the nose-flaring Democratic majority led by his arch-critic, new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was privileged to see the back of the president throughout the entire speech.

"And tonight, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of my own, as the first president to begin the State of the Union message with these words: ‘Madam Speaker,’” Bush said, adding, "Congratulations, Madam Speaker!"

But what could he do about the awkward backdrop? In what language, even if he knew any, could he possibly appease the jugular veins of over 200 million Americans who have simply had enough? Enough deficit, enough fear, enough terror, enough Patriot Act, enough eavesdropping, enough war on terror, enough coffins, enough international hatred.

Just hours before the address, an AP-AOL News poll found "little to cheer about" with Americans irreversibly bearish on the state of the union, the administration, Congress, Iraq, and even some personal traits of their president.

According to the poll, about 70 percent of Americans believe their country is on the wrong track.

The poll further reflected a rude public awakening to the bipartisan congressional collusion despite all the high-heeled theatrics with only four in 10 thinking the country will be better off with Democrats in charge of the House and Senate.

The survey also found Congress tailgating Bush's disapproval ratings at over 66 percent thanks to all the sleaze from former House Majority Leader Tom Delay to Duke Cunningham and Bob Ney, from paid meals and skybox tickets to cash-choked freezers to groped pages.

Iraq, however, remained the public's top concern, with two-thirds disapproving of Bush's handling of the situation.

Yet Bush promised more of the same, saying, "We enter the year 2007 with large endeavors underway, and others that are ours to begin."

While acknowledging gaping rifts in Congress -- "We are not the first to come here with government divided and uncertainty in the air" -- George Bush insisted on the necessity of a "generational" war that has drained the country's coffers and gained no more than 3000 flag-draped coffins and global hatred not to mention hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths, adding, "Yet we are all held to the same standards, and called to serve the same good purposes: To extend this nation's prosperity… to spend the people's money wisely… to solve problems, not leave them to future generations…"

He then gave a pipe-dream account of the country's "growing economy" belied a week earlier when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sounded the alarm bells for Congress.

"If early and meaningful action is not taken, the U.S. economy could be seriously weakened," warned Bernanke in prepared testimony to the Senate Budget Committee on January 18. Bernanke added, "Absent policy changes by Congress and the White House, rising budget deficits are likely in the years ahead to increase the amount of federal debt outstanding to unprecedented levels… That could propel interest rates for consumers and businesses upward, which would be a worrisome development… Thus a vicious cycle may develop in which large deficits lead to rapid growth in debt and interest payments, which in turn adds to subsequent deficits."

The budget deficit last year totaled $248 billion, a four-year low. But forecasts call for the deficit to worsen for the 2007 budget year. The Congressional Budget Office is projecting $286 billion in red ink, while most analysts predict an even bigger shortfall of $339 billion.

Next in his speech, Bush took on the anodyne topics of education, health care, and social security, reminding everyone of his repeated domestic failures. His signature "No Child Left Behind Act" never really took off and was soon renamed "No Millionaire Left Behind" thanks to Bush's "trickle-down economy" a term seeking to euphemize corporate and political cronyism whose diligent practice won Bush the moniker "Reverse Robin Hood". His Social Security privatization plan was nipped in Congress and a review of his Medicare and Medicaid policies will put no feathers in his cap.

Bush's "energy independence" scene during which he called for "using everything from wood chips, to grasses, to agricultural wastes" lost Jim Carrey his career a week after Mr. Big Oil Brat heralded his Iraqi Oil Law sealing the fate of the world's second largest oil reserves.

His threadbare litany of “global democratization” and "Broader Middle East" were aptly rebuffed by his 2004 presidential nemesis, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, who during a World Economic Forum panel discussion on January 27 slammed the foreign policy of the Bush administration, saying it has caused the United States to become "a sort of international pariah."

Speaking of Africa and his administration's efforts to eradicate poverty and HIV/AIDS in the exploited continent, Bush talked the biblical talk of "To whom much is given, much is required”, to which Kerry said, "When we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy."

Taking a swipe at Bush's "Broader Middle East" plan, Kerry said, "So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East -- in the world, really. I've never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today."

The Massachusetts senator added, "We should be less engaged in this 'neocon' rhetoric of regime change and more involved in building relations and living up to our own values so that people make a different judgment about us."

Elsewhere in his stand up, Bush, whose stance on climate change is unbeknownst to even his beloved dog Barney, said, "America is on the verge of technological breakthroughs that will enable us to live our lives less dependent on oil. These technologies will help us become better stewards of the environment -- and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change.”

And the line "we must also step up domestic oil production in environmentally sensitive ways" rang a victory bell for the many environmentalists whose tooth-and-nail struggle to keep the administration's drills off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge seems to have finally borne fruit.

Bush's speechwriters concluded his address with a sensational appeal to America, citing sacrifices made by good Americans.

The recent rallies showcased America's response that no ghostwriter could ever revive the dead duck of popular support for a presidency wrapped in so many lies, with thousands of U.S. citizens saying, “Mr. President, on your bike!”

Amir R. M. Arfa is a Press TV Analyst.