Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Thoughtful editorial today in NY Times, Trying to Contain the Iraq Disaster.
It's lunacy that President Bush is determined to push Social Security privatization again after the election, an idea that Americans soundly rejected in 2005, & which sunk his poll ratings so much that he never recovered, yet seems not at all concerned with seriously trying to extricate us from Iraq before he leaves office. In January he'll have much reduced support in congress, because of Democratic gains & because Republicans must distance themselves from a crippled duck. If Democrats take the House or Senate, he'll also have a bucket of subpenas on his desk. If he's so clueless about doing the right thing, then he ought to just concern himself with designs for his presidential library & try not to make matters worse.
I always feel far better when I don't read a lot of news. But in an election season it's difficult to resist. & some items just leap out & grab. The midafternoon weather was glorious; cool, breezy & colorful. Halloween decorations on homes.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
It's lunacy that President Bush is determined to push Social Security privatization again after the election, an idea that Americans soundly rejected in 2005, & which sunk his poll ratings so much that he never recovered, yet seems not at all concerned with seriously trying to extricate us from Iraq before he leaves office. In January he'll have much reduced support in congress, because of Democratic gains & because Republicans must distance themselves from a crippled duck. If Democrats take the House or Senate, he'll also have a bucket of subpenas on his desk. If he's so clueless about doing the right thing, then he ought to just concern himself with designs for his presidential library & try not to make matters worse.
I always feel far better when I don't read a lot of news. But in an election season it's difficult to resist. & some items just leap out & grab. The midafternoon weather was glorious; cool, breezy & colorful. Halloween decorations on homes.
