Prices are surging – and it's not just gasoline
Exactly what we could have expected to happen, given that President Bush's tax cut is an loud encore to President Reagan's supply-side economics.
We knew how that went. It created a big inflation that somehow Reagan could brush off by claiming that we were better off then than before. It costed President George H. W. Bush his presidency, when the sagging economy and tax hike weighed so much on the Americans' mind that they split between Ross Perot's brand of fiscal responsibility and Bush's betrayal of his core constituency, resulting in President William Clinton becoming President.
Of course, Clinton created his own form of policies that aimed to convince people that he was for limited government. Unfortunately, it resulted in the Democrats' loss of both houses of Congress. A loss from which they never recovered to this day.
Even the brief and weak Democratic majority during the time when a Republican turned Independent could not prevent the Bush and Rove juggarnaut of 2002 and 2004.
Now, if the people on the Left could keep quiet, or at least tell better stories that speak to the hope and passion of the American Dream, the Republicans should destroy themselves of their own accord. Their behaviors during the DeLay scandal and the Terri Schiavo case speak of the majority of Americans their unhappiness with how the very structure of the federal government, which the Constitution had outlined and sustained itself on, is eroding.
The Patriots Act is set to be renewed, and not re-evaluated.
Bolton is likely to be sent to the United Nations, about which he has complained and of which he has little to no diplomatic sense to handle.
The Guantanamo Bay, where Muslims are held without due process, serves as a reminder for its similarities (and differences) to the Japanese Internment Camp during World War II.
The tax cuts, unsustainable to the workings of the federal government, are due to be made permanent. I hope that this witnesses merely the apogee of outright uncitizenship of the American corporate businessmen, and that they will get some sense to return back into the fold of being a philanthropist, a for-the-greater-good tax payer, and a law abider.
But my hope may be in vain.
We knew how that went. It created a big inflation that somehow Reagan could brush off by claiming that we were better off then than before. It costed President George H. W. Bush his presidency, when the sagging economy and tax hike weighed so much on the Americans' mind that they split between Ross Perot's brand of fiscal responsibility and Bush's betrayal of his core constituency, resulting in President William Clinton becoming President.
Of course, Clinton created his own form of policies that aimed to convince people that he was for limited government. Unfortunately, it resulted in the Democrats' loss of both houses of Congress. A loss from which they never recovered to this day.
Even the brief and weak Democratic majority during the time when a Republican turned Independent could not prevent the Bush and Rove juggarnaut of 2002 and 2004.
Now, if the people on the Left could keep quiet, or at least tell better stories that speak to the hope and passion of the American Dream, the Republicans should destroy themselves of their own accord. Their behaviors during the DeLay scandal and the Terri Schiavo case speak of the majority of Americans their unhappiness with how the very structure of the federal government, which the Constitution had outlined and sustained itself on, is eroding.
The Patriots Act is set to be renewed, and not re-evaluated.
Bolton is likely to be sent to the United Nations, about which he has complained and of which he has little to no diplomatic sense to handle.
The Guantanamo Bay, where Muslims are held without due process, serves as a reminder for its similarities (and differences) to the Japanese Internment Camp during World War II.
The tax cuts, unsustainable to the workings of the federal government, are due to be made permanent. I hope that this witnesses merely the apogee of outright uncitizenship of the American corporate businessmen, and that they will get some sense to return back into the fold of being a philanthropist, a for-the-greater-good tax payer, and a law abider.
But my hope may be in vain.
posted by Alan at April 20, 2005
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