Bush Crony Honor Roll: his nicknames for people

Joe Allbaugh=Big Country
Tony Blair=Landslide
Barbara Boxer=Ali
Michael D. Brown=Brownie
Frank Bruni=Pancho
George H.W. Bush=Poppy
George W. Bush=Dubya, Bushie
Laura Bush=Bushie
Carl Cameron=Camarones
Andrew Card=Tangent Man
Paul Cellucci=Cellooch
Dick Cheney=Big Time
Jean Chrétien=Dino (as in Dinosaur)
Susan Collins=Sweet Susan
John Cornyn=Corndog
Candy Crowley=Dulce
Mitch Daniels=The Blade
Maureen Dowd=Cobra
Dianne Feinstein=Frazier
Barney Frank=Sabretooth
Bill Frist=Fristy
Alberto Gonzales=Fredo
David Gregory=Little Stretch
Dennis Hastert=Speak
Pete Hoekstra=Pedro
Karen Hughes=High Prophet, The Enforcer, Hurricane Karen
David Jackson=Action Jackson
Lee Jackson=Action Jackson
Ted Kennedy=Senator
Pete King=Pedro
Dennis Kucinich=Mayor
Dick Kyle=Stretch
Ken Lay=Kenny Boy
Larry Lindsey=Thunderbolt Lindsey
Mark McKinnon=M-Cat
George Miller=El Grande Jorge
Ben Nelson=Nellie, Benny, Benator
Colin Powell=Balloonfoot
Vladimir Putin=Pootie-Poot
Condoleezza Rice=Guru
Karl Rove=Boy Genius, Turd Blossom
Bill Sammon=Super Stretch
Olympia Snowe=The Big O
John Sweeney=Congressman Kick-Ass
George Tenet=Brother George
Tommy Thompson=Double T
Ann Veneman=Bullets
Paul Wellstone=Pablo
George Will=The Commissioner
Patricia Wilson=Outback Woman
Robert Zoellick=The Adding Machine

HE's quite free with the Pedro's and Pancho's and Pablo's and other hispanicisms for Wasps. What's that all about?