The fact the deficit may not be as high as projected is true. A temperature when one is ill of 103.5 instead of a predicted 104.0 is better, too. It's an enormous deficit, and being used to pump up the economy.

And interest rates will go up, which will also have an adverse affect.

The oil supply system isn't what I would call a "free market". Even so, there is a supply and demand issue, one the Saudi's, those bulwarks against terror, will use to help get GWB elected. They will pump more because:

Higher energy prices will adversely affect the economy.

And they can't do all that.

Nope. It seems to be a bubble, an illusion fostered by Cheney/bush until the election.

And, True Believers have to deny that. I can accept that's the truth, though I don't understand it.

Arf.