Hot Pursuit
April 26th, 2006Briefly, there are a few news pieces that merit a looksie. Karl Rove has been called before the Patrick Fitzgerald Valerie Plame Scooter Libby Grand Jury (mouthful!) for the fifth time, and it very well might be the first step in the prosecution of Karl Rove. Patrick Fitzgerald is the type of man who dogs his opponents in hot pursuit until the bitter end, and even when you think he’s not after you, he is. Karl Rove should be very afraid.
George Bush appears to be pursuing a Socialist agenda. Can you believe it? As one step toward lowering gas prices, he’s calling on Congress to repeal tax credits to big oil. I thought tax “credits” were the answer to everything? What about those poor business leaders in the oil industry — how will they afford their humvees? Maybe Bush doesn’t care, seeing as he’s pursuing Socialism, after all! But that’s not all — to counter his new leftward tilt, the President is threatening to veto a spending bill for Iraq and New Orleans. I guess he figures that Iraq and the Gulf Coast can fend for themselves?
Of course, his threatened veto isn’t something to take seriously. Bush has been threatening to veto spending bills from the beginning, and he signs them in the end, sticking true to his Communist core. Maybe Tony Snow will be able to help him clear up his mixed messages, but I doubt it. The only answer to the President’s rose-colored view on red-letter spending is to give him a pair of glasses that work. Or a calculator with which he can sort out his “fuzzy-math” budgets.
Barring that, the only other solution is clear: to give the job to Phil Gramm! Dear Bush, no.