Bush Vision Overload

Alright, now, I work for a living and have a household to manage. In addition, this month we have had medical concerns and I have been called for jury duty. Then there’s Katrina and Rita. And in the background I keep hearing more and more about suicide bombings. Several times a day there is an administration screw-up from the Bush gang that is really outrageous, but before I can comment on it he does something worse.

Do we have a scorekeeper? Did we hand the whole thing over to someone who believes that the vision is the job and reality is a distraction? What percentage of his appointments have had any appropriate background at all? Does Bush believe our government has any function except distributing no-bid contracts and solidifying corporate control to repay campaign debts? Is there a center where people who voted for him can go for counseling when they wake up?

Down here in Tennessee Rita is still keeping Bill Frist off the front page. I hope somebody is monitoring Pat Robertson. He’s probably praying for another hurricane because 1) Sodom wasn't completely destroyed and 2) the Neo-Cons need natural disasters for cover.

And in the middle of it all, Bush and Frist et al take time to promote something called Intelligent Design. Who are they kidding?

The "Duh" Factor

In case anybody is amazed that we didn't get a good response to Katrina from the federal government, that the recovery money is going to the same large corporations that are absorbing the Iraq appropriations, and that Bush intends to suspend environmental regulations and exempt from inheritance taxes the estate of anyone who died in Katrina's path that was worth more than 1.5 million dollars (I'm waiting to see who that person was) ...

In case more tax cuts in spite of record deficits seem to you to be a little inconsistent with reality ...

Remember Bush ran on a platform that said private individuals could spend money better than the federal government. His process since his election has been to cut, downsize, outsource, and let the people who have money keep more of it. His slow response to Katrina will enrich the rich and return more of our tax money to the "private sector," defined as the pockets of his political base. Small properties of middle income and poor people in the flood area will become part of the holdings of large companies.

It is a scheme in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the middle goes away.

Historical Note

I was in South Carolina recently for the funeral of Carl's uncle, Herschel Glenwood ("Glen") Williams. When I was working on my M.Ed., I collected interviews from people who attended or taught in one-room or small schools in southwest Virginia, and Glen gave me one of the best descriptions of a small school that I found in my research.

This is a bit of history that Glen recorded for us.

What went wrong

Wouldn't it be nice to have an administration that does something right in the first place instead of one that is so adept at investigating and explaining what went wrong after it bombs?