Mr Bush? Your Car Is Waiting

A few general observations on the Bush second term:

Prior to the Clinton impeachment, the President was always referred to as "the President" or "President ," never, ever, as "Mister ." After the Clinton impeachment, he was alternated between "President Clinton" and "Mister Clinton" usually the second when they were discussing some legal woe. Mister Bush gets referred to once as either President Bush or as the President, but after the first one is out of the way, it's Mister Bush from then on out.

George got elected on "keeping us safe," then watched FEMA and Homeland Security bungle its way through Katrina, and is trying to avoid any kind of federal involvement on Rita, saying "we're here to help," and wondering if this isn't an activity better suited to being turned over to the active military (as opposed to the guard/reserves). I can't say ANY part of that response leaves me feeling safer.

At the rate the national debt is growing, the federal government will be doing nothing but paying interest on it.

The Bushies will let any offense dealing with money get a free pass (Enron, Arthur Anderson, Citibank, Exxon, Worldcom, Halliburton, etc.) until the public is so outraged that it can't continue, but will do its best to whip the public into a frenzy over anything not dealing with money as long as it is to their benefit (gay marriage, abortion, "family values," but not civil rights or voter fraud).

Liberal lobbyists are "radical" (Sierra Club, ACLU) but conservative lobbyists are "family oriented" (Rush Limbaugh, Discovery Institute).

Cannot get anything straight about education. "No Child Left Behind" but promote "Intelligent Design" and cut post secondary education funding. Either the goal is to prepare America for the 21st Century we live in, or prepare them to the return of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," don't say one and do the other.

They screamed that "Nation Building" is not something we should get involved in during the 2000 campaign, screamed "regime change" in the 2002 elections, then went into the "Nation Building" business in 2003. By 2006 it appears that they will be out of this business, failed and bankrupt just like all of the other businesses Mister Bush has run.

Dick Chaney had anyurisms in BOTH LEGS? Huh? How does that one work?

If nominating Roberts is going to go like this (Democrats divided, Republicans saying if Bush sends up another candidate like him they'll vote against), what chance does a nominee replacing O'Connor have? He can't nominate a centrist, or "conservative light" as his own party will rebel, but if he nominates a super conservative (Scalia jr?) the Democrats would consider the nuclear option but won't have to when the centrist Republicans jump ship and join to vote him down.

What's going to happen if Cheney simply has a massive coronary and keels over? How does he manage to get the senate to approve anyone? Who will run the country? Karl Rove?

The head of OMB spending just got indicted with fingers pointing at Jack Abramoff as the next domino to go. Bill Frist is under investigation now for insider trading. Haliburton subsidary KBR is feeding at the dual troughs of Iraq and Katrina. Tom Delay is still under investigation in Austin, Texas. Is this going to be a controlled fire that only does light damage or is it spreading beyond the firewall and about to consume everything in sight?

Those are just a few thoughts.