Friday, November 04, 2005
Ruminations:
Now that George W. Bush has been relegated to lame duck status, are his policies, i.e. social security reform, still viable? The Republican controlled congress must sense that the straight party line is becoming increasingly unpopular, so will they ease up on the more controversial issues that have a real possibility of inflicting long-term damage, like the overturn of Roe vs. Wade and the continuation of the Iraq war?
Or perhaps, sensing that the Bullshit has gotten way out of hand and the possibility of a shift back to Democrat (not democracy) is eminent, Should it make them more cautious as they wend their precarious way towards the end of My pet goat's (MPG) term, one of the more destructive presidencies this country has ever been forced to endure?
I am frequently hearing the Iraq war referred to in conversation as "George Bush's war". This is scarcely odd because an unjust war based on lies, even if Plato said that the philosopher kings sometimes must lie to the common man, is still an unjust war. Considering the fact that Plato and Jesus Christ, two men who held righteousness in high regard, are the main figures on which MPG seems to base his administration's philosophy, this state of paradox begins to form a bit of a conundrum for the "Bushies".
The Supreme Court is about to become staffed with the most creative majority since the Dred Scott decision thanks to the fortuitous timing of the Bush presidency, and Allan Greenspan is also due to retire on MPG'S watch. The republicans have been given the key to dominion over the American government, and realizing this, maybe the power has gone a little to their little, bullet-shaped heads.
(more beer)
The world circumstance brought about by America's odd foreign policies are getting harder and harder to justify. How can you help but blame dependence on oil? We have made the American way of life available to the world, as long as the world can provide the oil that that way of life requires. The manufacture of goods, the delivery of goods, the promotion of goods, the electricity to operate goods, there is literally nothing that does not in some way depend on oil. How the hell did this happen?
Or perhaps, sensing that the Bullshit has gotten way out of hand and the possibility of a shift back to Democrat (not democracy) is eminent, Should it make them more cautious as they wend their precarious way towards the end of My pet goat's (MPG) term, one of the more destructive presidencies this country has ever been forced to endure?
I am frequently hearing the Iraq war referred to in conversation as "George Bush's war". This is scarcely odd because an unjust war based on lies, even if Plato said that the philosopher kings sometimes must lie to the common man, is still an unjust war. Considering the fact that Plato and Jesus Christ, two men who held righteousness in high regard, are the main figures on which MPG seems to base his administration's philosophy, this state of paradox begins to form a bit of a conundrum for the "Bushies".
The Supreme Court is about to become staffed with the most creative majority since the Dred Scott decision thanks to the fortuitous timing of the Bush presidency, and Allan Greenspan is also due to retire on MPG'S watch. The republicans have been given the key to dominion over the American government, and realizing this, maybe the power has gone a little to their little, bullet-shaped heads.
(more beer)
The world circumstance brought about by America's odd foreign policies are getting harder and harder to justify. How can you help but blame dependence on oil? We have made the American way of life available to the world, as long as the world can provide the oil that that way of life requires. The manufacture of goods, the delivery of goods, the promotion of goods, the electricity to operate goods, there is literally nothing that does not in some way depend on oil. How the hell did this happen?
