Sunday, January 11, 2004
No, not that one:
Paul O'Neill, the former Treasury Secretary (not the former Yankee), who sat on the National Security Council, has gone on the record saying that the Bush Administration had planned to invade Iraq as soon as they assumed office back in 2001. No big surprise to anyone who's actually been paying attention, but nevertheless, it's nothing short of huge that a recent member of Dubya's inner circle is talking like this. Meanwhile a group of conservative and libertarian think-tanks - including the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute - have been hammering away at the President's awful fiscal track record, as the federal budget continues to spiral up, up, and away into the stratosphere with a 22% increase in 2004 over the previous year. Combine this with an economic "recovery" where job growth is stagnant and weak factory orders just as weak, a military that is being forced to remain on active duty in order to occupy a country that wants us to leave, and a couple of recent rulings by the Federal judiciary that have declared major provisions of the so-called "War of Terror" to be unconstitutional at best, not to mention the scandal of the Valerie Plame outing (which refuses to die, despite the best efforts of the Karl Rove spin machine) and you just have to wonder: could it be that the Bush Bubble is finally about to burst? Any one of these issues could prove the undoing of an administration; all of them at once will take a miracle to ride out. Of course this crew is playing with a loaded deck, so anything's still possible. Even a miracle. Well, let's just hope that no matter what Pat Robertson says, God will be pulling the Democratic lever in November!
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