At Some Point, No Amount of Spin ....

Well, it seems like I'll be back in this country to stay for awhile, so maybe I can keep up a brisker pace on these postings.

Such a vast minority of the Bush Administration’s decisions and actions have been competent that we should wonder, as history certainly will, how these yahoos (no disrespect intended to the web company) got into office, kept the majority of the people on its side for so long, then managed to secure a second term.

The current group in power has done such a thorough job of trashing this country’s financial future, foreign policy and worldwide prestige that the radio and Internet conspiracy nuts are claiming that it’s all a devious plot by the New World Order to collapse the strength of the U.S., allowing an invigorated United Nations to step into the vacuum and take over as world dictator.

I think it’s something else, but only marginally less sinister. I think the Bushies have a cult-like reverence for wealth and power, irregardless of the source of those endowments and, concomitantly, a severe disdain for those who are poor or common working folks. Everything they’ve done backs up that notion, from the irresponsible tax cuts for the rich to the Iraq war, which greatly enriches the large defense contractors and companies like Halliburton, while costing the lives and limbs of (so far) 22,500 Americans and countless Iraqis.