the plan Bush jr ran on made sense when he was first running, but not by the time he took office. oil prices rose, the dot com speculative bubble burst, and then there were secondary effects from that.

by the time bush jr got into office, most people i talked to spent their tax refund on japanese electronics, similar to the consumer pattern which britain faced in the 1950's. by the time bush jr took office, the investment community had absolutely no faith in his plan.

we've got another governor in the whitehouse, and things don't work on a national level the way they do on a state level. you have absolutely no control of the agenda, things come at you as they will, and you handle them, or you don't. foreign policy takes up most of your time, and in this case he has no experience with it.

they say g*d loves drunks, babies, and americans, and let's all hope it's true...

thank you, good night, and g*d bless america...

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