The Bush Mandate
I’m not the sort to seek silver linings in dark clouds to boost anyone’s morale, so don’t think this is that. But last week, when some special people were in considerable pain, I put out to them that they shouldn’t feel so sick. There was a reason to look at the same facts from an alternative perspective I said, and no, not be happy, but at least see a good reason not to be so blue.
First, yes, it was possibly a stolen election and if not the results bespeak unspeakable stupidity, denial and cruelty on the part of many of our fellow citizens. Second, it’s going to get darker, a lot darker -- the new Supreme Court appointments will no doubt be tragic -- but there is little or nothing that anyone can do to stop the Bush juggernaut at this moment.
So what needs to be done is to be in position when the Bushies fail, ‘cause fail they will, and in spades. They can talk all they want about winning in Iraq, but they haven’t the troops to engineer a victory. The economy has no reason to improve and new tax cuts will only hasten an economic day of reckoning with an out-of-control deficit. The cost of health care continues to rise at many times the rate of inflation. Little money is going to our schools. The nation is still millions behind in the creation of jobs.
So the fundamentals are a mess and the people in charge lack the imagination and resources to make the necessary repairs. The Republicans will have both houses of Congress and it still won’t matter. There aren’t any practical, fiscally-viable options.
Imagine if Kerry had been elected. If he had brought the same energy to the White House that he did to the campaign, he would have faced a truculent -- at best -- Congress and a divided country, half of whose voters had rejected him at the polls. He would have been savaged into impotence.
The Bush Boy claims a mandate. Good for him, because now he won’t have the previous administration to blame when he falls flat on his smug face.
And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.
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