From today's WSJ (subscription required):
The path back to public approval, and reelection next year is to return to their priorities.
Did milk just come out your nose? Yeah me too. How can a morally bankrupt party with its bloody hand in the till, return to their priorities?
The question has not been raised yet but I'll raise it. With all that is coming to light about the GOP "priorities" and their infinite seeming battles with ethics and with a new scandal coming up so often that I can hardly keep up with them anymore, is it really out of the realm of possibility that our leaders intentionally, and purposefully lead us to war? How can that question be suppressed in the subconcious of America now?
The WSJ doesn't think so, they outline some of the priorities that will help the GOP with another successful election day. More on the flip.
Respond to the economic damage of Katrina by making energy exploration and production less burdensome
Read as "Fuck the environment!". No mention of conservation or alternative energy. It doesn't mention the pork laden energy bill, just hints at more payouts to energy companies.
Help sustain the current expansion by making the Bush tax cuts permanent, repealing the death tax as they've promised for years and taking a stab at larger tax reform.
Read as "Fuck the poor, fuck the deficit. Help the rich." This is their ideology above all else. Security, preperation, spreading democracy; not so much. Tax cuts for rich folks with yachts? Hell fucking yeah!
Shocking.
If Social Security is too daunting, then turn to healthcare, by passing free market reforms that lower the cost of insurance so employers can give larger wage increases instead of paying ever more for health care.
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Read as : "If you Americans were smarter than you figured, then put the Social Security scam aside for now and focus on another one of our target industries, healthcare. We'll get back to Social security in a few."
Their thinking is that they can pay the guy at Walmart stocking shelves another dollar, and take it out of his pocket on the other side on healthcare.
And restore Medicaid to the program for the poor that it was designed to be instead of a middle class subsidy for long term care.
We could go on.
The section of our population that is poor is growing while these "priorities" by this administration have been implemented.They could go on? I could go on.
Principle is a foreign thought in the current administration. The only real convictions that this administation has, will happen in courtrooms across the country in the next 5 years.