The part that got me thinking in this
NPR Segment was this one:
Georgetown University's Stephen Wayne: Power does shift to the President in a time of crisis, but we have moved out of the crisis mode for term two. So, one of the difficulties will be to get Congress to act in a "politics as usual" environment.
David Welna: The President maintains that crises still drive his agenda. Much of what becomes his second term legacy may depend on his ability to persuade Congress those crises are real.
What follows is conspiracy-free...
I know...it's NPR melodrama, but it brings up a scary thought. The statement by the Georgetown professor was set up with a clip of Michael Tanner from the Cato Institute:
This is a President that has won every battle that he has wanted to win. Whether it was the war in Iraq, the medicare bill, the no child left behind bill or his four tax cuts. When he has really put his mind to it he has been able to get congress to do what he's wanted them to do.
Ok, I'm not saying that Bush sent the planes into the towers. I am saying that reports like this connect two synapses in my head that seem to connect the corpus collosum of the bush cabinet. Things that get the people scared also get the people behind the President's agenda.
How can anyone say that Democrats want our foreign policy to fail?
They say that you know!
If our foreign policy fails, the progressive agenda fails domestically. It's that simple.
What is scary is that Bush is a guy who will not admit defeat. He is ripe for suggestion by the devil on his shoulder. It is a devil that has many heads and is made of money.
May good fortune prevail over the next four years where government policy and integrity may not.