My OperaHere it comes.
Friday, September 26, 2008 11:41:58 AM
"Finally", the McCain campaign will no doubt announce soon, "Bush has betrayed the conservative creed.
Invading a country at random - yeah, well they all did that. Raising the deficit beyond the reasonably imaginable to pay for a trickle down scheme that never works - a proud conservative tradition. Bush just did it better, and more heroic, than anyone else. Coming close to blowing up the world - well, you can't have the dramatic finish for /every/ presidency, now can you.
But now... Bailing out the private sector by guaranteeing the money the banks have lent out to people who can't pay (either because of increased interest, or overeager salesmen).. Now that's a difficult one.
First, it's a choice between seeing it as rewarding businesses for not earning money. Or, seeing it as getting the banks back their money by "democratically" levvying the population, in the biggest socialistic insanity on the entire planet.
Or you can see it as a way for Bush to desperately avoid taking the immediate hit politically from his own fiscal policies in the short- term. And so using tax- money to salvage himself from a political crisis.
But - finally, you can see the bailout- plan as necessary for that the US isn't supposed to tank completely - in other words, Bush failed(in the only way that matters in Opposite- world: he had to fix something.
Indeed, the McCain camp finally sees the opportunity to create a new narrative for for McCain: he's going to raise the Republican values that Bush has now failed..slightly.. In a well- meaning, yet catastrophic way.
So right after the three minute silence in respect of the one that passed away this week (or Time- Out, as the campaign called it), expect some truly fantastic idiocy to show up. Personally, I can't wait.
Invading a country at random - yeah, well they all did that. Raising the deficit beyond the reasonably imaginable to pay for a trickle down scheme that never works - a proud conservative tradition. Bush just did it better, and more heroic, than anyone else. Coming close to blowing up the world - well, you can't have the dramatic finish for /every/ presidency, now can you.
But now... Bailing out the private sector by guaranteeing the money the banks have lent out to people who can't pay (either because of increased interest, or overeager salesmen).. Now that's a difficult one.
First, it's a choice between seeing it as rewarding businesses for not earning money. Or, seeing it as getting the banks back their money by "democratically" levvying the population, in the biggest socialistic insanity on the entire planet.
Or you can see it as a way for Bush to desperately avoid taking the immediate hit politically from his own fiscal policies in the short- term. And so using tax- money to salvage himself from a political crisis.
But - finally, you can see the bailout- plan as necessary for that the US isn't supposed to tank completely - in other words, Bush failed(in the only way that matters in Opposite- world: he had to fix something.
Indeed, the McCain camp finally sees the opportunity to create a new narrative for for McCain: he's going to raise the Republican values that Bush has now failed..slightly.. In a well- meaning, yet catastrophic way.
So right after the three minute silence in respect of the one that passed away this week (or Time- Out, as the campaign called it), expect some truly fantastic idiocy to show up. Personally, I can't wait.
