Monday, May 02, 2005
Going down in flames....
Image courtesy: Arrogant American
Iraq is still a mess and back in the headlines despite the Bush administration's best efforts to play it like things were all love over there since the election. And in developments that must have the White House really kind of shook right now, so is Afghanistan. (related: 38 Republicans Vote Against Armor for Soldiers).
Bush is "a half-baked man in terms of morality and a philistine whom we can never deal with.""
Meanwhile back home...
Congratulations, Mr. President. Your economic policies have landed us on the verge of stagflation. (related: "Guess what? That R word is sneaking into conversations again." Click here to read more from The New York Times)
And your recently announced "progressive indexing" plan for reforming social security might actually be worse than doing nothing.
Related: "To sell his tax cuts, Bush implied that anything under $100,000 was “low income.” Now, to sell his Social Security package, anything over $20,000 is “better off." (Click here to read more)
Was Thursday the night the US media and the public finally realized the Emperor has no clothes? (related: Maybe not. Media Matters once again does the business dissecting the MSM pitiful coverage of Bush's press conference)
