How much does an ambassador cost in the Bush Cheney Regime? It's actually pretty cheap.

So-called "Pioneer" and "Ranger" contributors have a good shot at buyimg the top US ambassadorships

William Timken, chairman of Timken Inc. and a former board member of Diebold, is the ambassador to Germany.

Diebold was instrumental in "delivering" the vote for Bush through its electronic voting machines in Ohio, as well as other states in the union that bought Diebold computerized voting machines which can be rigged better than Chicago in the old days.

Bush has also named Laurence F. Rooney, Chairman and CEO of investment company Rooney Holdings, Inc., to be ambassador to the Vatican,where he will serve with US ambassador to Italy Mel Sembler, the chief of Sembler Co., a Florida shopping mall firm that revels in harassing anti-war protestors on public property.

Roland Arnall, co-chairman of the Ameriquest Capital Corp. and founding co-chairman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center (in 1996, the Justice Department charged Arnall's firm with levying higher mortgage interest rates to minorities and women) was appointed ambassador to the Netherlands.

William McCormick, chairman of McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant, was appointed ambassador to New Zealand, where he can hobnob and play golf with failed hedge fund manager Julian Robertson, who has moved to New Zealand as a tax dodge.

Alfred Hoffman Jr., chairman of the board of WCI Communities, Inc., a real estate firm, was appointed ambassador to Portugal.

If you're a rich Republican, it pays to pay off the Bush Crime Family.

Why? Because for the Act III of your miserable life, you too can be an ambassador for the new American Military Empire.

Just like the good old days of Rome.