Even The Right Thinks Bush Is Wrong
I love that even conservative commentators are now slamming Bush and his policies.
http://bartlett.blogs.nytimes.com/?hp
Bruce Bartlett, who wrote a book called - "Imposter: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy," is now doing op-eds in the NY Times lambasting and calling into question Bush's economic and other policies.
More and more each day I see this kind of questioning, not to mention the questionability of whether Bush can even claim legitimately to be leading in his so-called "war on terror", or "global war on terror", or "the long war", or whatever other 1984ish moniker they've chosen today.
Not paying attention to port security (Dubai Ports World or not), giving nukes to India (Iran, Pakistan and any others aside), a Homeland Security Department that continues to be completely dysfunctional - this doesn't seem like leadership or strength to me. It seems like foolhardiness. Is there an actual plan here, or just more and more fear-mongering to make us all forget that with tax cuts for the wealthy and deficit spending they're selling the country to the highest bidder and American taxpayers and workers be damned?
The big question continues to be whether the Democrats can come up with any kind of forward looking plan and leadership on the issues and actually get enough people elected to make any difference here in the remaining two years of the Bush administration (since it looks like there's no stomach for impeaching the guy who has lied way more than Clinton ever did).
Where's the debate about what functions of government are actually worth investing in and the proper use of taxpayer dollars (hint - it's not earmarks for your favorite pork project)?
The outrage continues. Now we need some ideas.
http://bartlett.blogs.nytimes.com/?hp
Bruce Bartlett, who wrote a book called - "Imposter: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy," is now doing op-eds in the NY Times lambasting and calling into question Bush's economic and other policies.
More and more each day I see this kind of questioning, not to mention the questionability of whether Bush can even claim legitimately to be leading in his so-called "war on terror", or "global war on terror", or "the long war", or whatever other 1984ish moniker they've chosen today.
Not paying attention to port security (Dubai Ports World or not), giving nukes to India (Iran, Pakistan and any others aside), a Homeland Security Department that continues to be completely dysfunctional - this doesn't seem like leadership or strength to me. It seems like foolhardiness. Is there an actual plan here, or just more and more fear-mongering to make us all forget that with tax cuts for the wealthy and deficit spending they're selling the country to the highest bidder and American taxpayers and workers be damned?
The big question continues to be whether the Democrats can come up with any kind of forward looking plan and leadership on the issues and actually get enough people elected to make any difference here in the remaining two years of the Bush administration (since it looks like there's no stomach for impeaching the guy who has lied way more than Clinton ever did).
Where's the debate about what functions of government are actually worth investing in and the proper use of taxpayer dollars (hint - it's not earmarks for your favorite pork project)?
The outrage continues. Now we need some ideas.
posted by Paul Salinger at 12:09 PM
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