Friend Annie sent me this Vanity Fair article and remarked, “Good thing Bush is on his way out — how much more damage can he do in a year? I shudder at the thought.”
Every bit of damage that he can, every single last bit. Thanks to rare and misplaced fits of fiscal responsibility, our national infrastructure crumbles from the inside out while our treasury is shamlessly plundered for this horror of a war in Iraq. Yes, a lot of the blame here indeed lies with the current administration
Legislators could not keep SCHIP alive against Bush. Today, the House of Representatives voted against his veto of the $23 billion Water Resources Development Act and the Senate, we hope, will soon follow suit. Southern Louisianans, for one, sit on pins and needles to find out if our ports and coastal protection projects will be funded at all. $23 billion spent inside this country is wasteful to Bush when it’s a fraction of the >$1 trillion bucket of the Boondoggle in Iraq?
We are Americans. We should not have to beg for funding and suffer needlessly while “entirely justifiable” projects languish at home. Now, suffering has transformed into a question of survival, for this region will not survive without its ports and the coast. Even if the Senate does the right thing by successfully rejecting Bush’s WRDA veto, Americans ought to get the message loud and clear: the President does not care for America or Americans and that is the motivation for watching each of his moves until he leaves the Oval Office. A lot more damage can be dealt in a year which this nation can no longer afford.
If history is indeed “little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortune of mankind,” as Edward Gibbon claimed, this American era ought to be written up on several pages in big black Sharpie and bright red warning flags.
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I still can’t get over Congress’ inability to override the SCHIP veto.
“Even if the Senate does the right thing by successfully rejecting Bush’s WRDA veto, Americans ought to get the message loud and clear: the President does not care for America or Americans”
The polls reflect that the overwhelming majority of Americans do indeed have the message loud and clear. What is frustrating is that the Democrats in Congress don’t seem to realize that we’ve gotten the message. They can stop cowering to charges that they make love to bin Laden any day now… They can stand up to this president, they have the support.