Because unlike some traitorous Americans, the Australians recognize just how cool Dick Cheney is, as can be seen by this banner displayed during his recent visit:

Besides, I already have my Fun Facts About Australia written.
[Hat tip to DylanKissane.com for the pic]

This is where America’s public education system has failed.
We should REQUIRE courses in Patriotism.
We should NOT make Australia the 51st state. Rather, we should expel states like California, Massachusetts, and Vermont, and make Australia, say, the 40th state.
No way man,Australia has like 5 states in it. We should make it states 51-55….or 40-45 if we go with Jim’s idea.
I say, we make them states 51 through at least 53.
The only thing I would want out of them would be for them to repeal their gun laws.
As long as they’ve fixed that renegade biker problem I saw in that documentary “Mad Max”.
I hereby nominate Chuck Norris to be the governor of the state of Australia.
BTW, ‘Mad Max’ wasn’t a documentary. Rather, it was a glimpse into what life down under would have been like had Jhimmi Carter been Prime Minister there.
Silicon is on to something, but lets think about this a little deeper. Most of Australia is pretty poor real estate inhabited by good people, while much of California is good real estate infested with raving moonbats.
Make one new state out of the good real estate part of Australia, exchange the good people in the crappy part of Austaralia to California and ship the moonbats to commune with nature in the Australian desert. It is even a historical fit with Australia’s old role as a penal colony.
Brian, In this case, you misspelled “Penile”. As that would be where we’d be sending the biggest Dicks in American culture and politics.
Jim,
even better yet, just sell California, Oregon, Washington, Vermont, etc., to Canada, and then incoperate Australia into the United States? All of our…ahem…”blue states”…seem to be in line with Canada anyway.
Wolfman… Just sell the west side of Washington to Canada. Eastern Washington and its people are actually a lot like Australia.
For that matter, Alberta Canada belongs down here with us as well.
Pete,
Sorry, should have specified. As I commented in “fun facts about Washington”, I know things are relitively sane East of Rainier.
Wolfman — only if Arizona annexes San Diego, Imperial, Orange, and Riverside counties first. Have to keep a Pacific coast port or two open. And there are lots of Marines out by Oceanside …