Wednesday, March 22, 2006

According to President Bush

US Troops may have to stay in Iraq well past the end of his second term in 2009. This airy announcement was part of the Adminstration's current propaganda offensive which amounts to trying to sound both defiant and upbeat on the subject of the Iraq war.
Otherwise, what we have here is an excellent example of the President's "petulant brat" style of management, create a whirlwind of debt, destruction and chaos and then wait for his successor to clean it all up.
Maybe we should be grateful, at least Bush implied that he intends to leave office in January 2009. With his presidential approval ratings mired in the thirties, the orb sceptre and Oil Crown of Texas must look mighty charmless right about now.

Still and all that, we ought to at least be addressing the dire fiscal consequences of the President's revenue saturnalia. How exactly we frame this for the fall campaign I do not know, but it is a necessary debate.

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