By The Pricking Of My Thumbs
Something wicked this way comes. Shakespeare's Macbeth, his poor damned king as prophesied by the three witches to end the line of Macbeth and so did he, despite the bloodshed he committed himself to and perpetuated in the hope that fate might be averted.
Mr.Bush has now the multi-fold task of putting down an insurgency whose appearance is becoming familiar, if not cliched, of defeating a multi-hundred billion dollar deficit, and under the weight of lawsuits and allegations of corruption, abuse of power, and illegal activities whose events can only be compared with the Hoover years. We live in times not unlike those which created the sixties. It is a time of moral revisionism.
The Presidents very grandios plan for reducing the deficit by 2008 when he is destined to leave office. His party is in dire poltical straits and this latest set of budget cuts will reduce government funding for education, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security by nearly $37 billion dollars. In case you don't have a grasp of the amount of money that is, you could feed your family, assuming a $100 a week food budget, for 7,115,384 years. As you can imagine, only a Congress as unbalanced as ours currently is would even contemplate the passage of such a budget, most especially considering it doesn't take into account any price for the reconstruction of New Orleans beyond 2008 and no budget for the war in Iraq after same. Is he planning to cut his losses and run at the end of term? Possibly. What need has he of another political office? It's not as though he'll ever touch the high of being leader of the free world again. He is rich beyond words, unpopular, and only need survive two more years without federal indictment and he can be free. Is our President, this powerful man, truly so much the escapist when true perile rears it's head?
Mr.Bush has now the multi-fold task of putting down an insurgency whose appearance is becoming familiar, if not cliched, of defeating a multi-hundred billion dollar deficit, and under the weight of lawsuits and allegations of corruption, abuse of power, and illegal activities whose events can only be compared with the Hoover years. We live in times not unlike those which created the sixties. It is a time of moral revisionism.
The Presidents very grandios plan for reducing the deficit by 2008 when he is destined to leave office. His party is in dire poltical straits and this latest set of budget cuts will reduce government funding for education, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security by nearly $37 billion dollars. In case you don't have a grasp of the amount of money that is, you could feed your family, assuming a $100 a week food budget, for 7,115,384 years. As you can imagine, only a Congress as unbalanced as ours currently is would even contemplate the passage of such a budget, most especially considering it doesn't take into account any price for the reconstruction of New Orleans beyond 2008 and no budget for the war in Iraq after same. Is he planning to cut his losses and run at the end of term? Possibly. What need has he of another political office? It's not as though he'll ever touch the high of being leader of the free world again. He is rich beyond words, unpopular, and only need survive two more years without federal indictment and he can be free. Is our President, this powerful man, truly so much the escapist when true perile rears it's head?
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