Way to get out in front of this one, George!

I'm sure you'll solve the problem in your final 9 months. Along with Mideast peace, that's quite a legacy.

He said that his presidential approval ratings would rise, maybe this is his srategery! Good luck with that one. I was angry and motivated before and nothing he does, except for a few moments of common sense, will prevent me from my civic duty of rasing fundemtnal questions against his and his administrations complicteness in breaking the law and massive amounts of failed management.

Hails of derisive laughter. This is the funniest thing I have read in a long time. Did I click on The Onion by mistake?

Next week, Bush announces his next legacy project, a manned trip to Mars, the week after, a cure for cancer--all to be wrapped up by the end of the year...if only the Democrat party doesn't mess it all up for him.

"Seven years of foot dragging and stonewalling" is, of course, another way of saying the Bush administration pursued environmental concerns in exactly the manner it intended from Inauguration Day 2001: Doing nothing - ever.

This is just like the Mideast "peace intiative" charade last fall; everybody suits up and busts out the Polaroids, and proceeds - vigorously - to do exactly nothing. It's an election year, and Bush must throw out these hastily concocted, empty gestures if he's going get invitations to the really big barbecues in 2009.

But by that time, even the most blinkered of Red State dunderhead may realize this empty shell piped off this country to the international stool pond. It's not like we're going to easily or quickly wipe "torturer" and "geopolitical terrorist" from the national CV. And we'll be living down this blood-drenched obscenity of a war for a long, long time.

So, what's next neglected mess at which he can crook a finger and pronounce cured?

The Big Dig?

...BRITNEY?

Always good to have Bush go on the record, especially about Global warming. Future historians will have direct references to those most negligent.

You know what, folks? The sky is falling.

All these years of letting the market regulate itself has led us here: an environment so raped and pillaged that to reverse the climate change—which is fast leading from over warming to water shortages to food shortages to famine to wars to death and chaos on a level we need to watch The Road Warrior to picture.

We may not see the worst of it, but our children or grandchildren will, and it ain't gonna be pretty.

What we have right now are airlines flying with unsafe aircraft, because a politicized FAA didn't want to squelch business growth by making the airlines maintain their fleet properly.

We have a superclass that has for decades methodically worked toward the massive gap we have between their wealth and the rest of us, based, I can only imagine, on pathological needs for money and power, because they sure as hell couldn't eat any better than they did in 1965.

We have a society in which those disenfranchised by deregulation and free markets are those who in generations past were the people who used to disenfranchise other races and ethnicities. And they're still reeling from the loss, so much so that their bitterness—yes, their bitterness—is aimed at people who had nothing to do with disenfranchising them. But the superclass has had its minions tell the white former middle class over and over that it's the blacks, the Mexicans, the liberals, the Jews, the terrorists, the gays, the atheists—everyone but those actually responsible for it—took away their jobs and their way of life.

And those minions are the middle managers who buy into the superclass's dreams, because they think that by doing their bidding, they'll get a piece of the pie.

Well, wake up, kids. Wake up, Condoleezza and Colin and Alberto, and really, Harriet and Judith and Lurita. Because the guys in charge have absolutely no intention of sharing the pie with you. You are not one of them, and you never can or will be. You are the pie makers; you don't get to take it home.

Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Perle and Rove, along with some select moving-and-shaking senators (not the ones who do the dirty work, Joe L.) but no representatives (really, the grunts? I think not!) and, of course, the business moguls who share the beds of of the politicos in the superclass are the ones who win. No blacks, Mexicans, or women. Oh, and Johnny Yoo? Nice work on the memos. We'll call you if we need anything else done.

Unless those of us who are on to what the superclass has done to us rise up—and I mean that in its classical revolutionary definition—nothing will ever get better for anyone but them. And unless we shove the faces of all of those enablers into the reality of their not being included in eating that pie—which they were never intended to share—they're going to keep on helping the people who have done the world more harm than any war, any despot, any plague, or any disaster.

So anything Bush says? More smoke and mirrors to keep us from screaming out the truth and taking back our utilities, our infrastructure, our transportation, our communications, our media, and anything else that has been deregulated or allowed to be "free marketed" into the current state. And we've got to deregulate the hell out of all of it, and tax the bastards within an inch of their lives. At least we can stop them where they now stand and maybe even get something back for the rest of us.

But you know what? No matter what we do to the superclass—short of incarcerating the lot of them in Pelican Bay or building some guillotines—they will always have more money than they rest of us can imagine. That shouldn't stop us from doing what we need to do, though.

So take up metaphorical arms and do what we need done to save us all.

San Fernando Curt:

Since you ask: "So, what's next neglected mess at which he can crook a finger and pronounce cured?"

The answer is the "War on Terra".

Expect along about December or January for Bush to announce that the "War on Terra" has been won just to prevent the incoming Democratic President from having the "Commander-in-Chief" powers that he has so abused.