[lit-ideas] Re: Priorities
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:59:46 -0800
> To paraphrase and reapply Nixon's famous exit line, you're going to have
> Bush to kick around for four more years!
Actually, no.
Have you noticed nobody seems to care anymore about the White House? Nobody
discusses the
issues anymore: the environment, unemployment, the deficit, the wars, the lack
of foreign
policy, etc. Nobody cares, because we know it's a waste of time.
Bush is putting lightweights into the cabinet: Rice, Gonzales, and others.
Whatever. The
cabinet positions have become so irrelevant that it doesn't matter if a nobody
is in that
position. The cabinet is irrelevant because Bush insists on loyalty.
As for foreign relations, the Bush White House has essentially abandoned the
global
leadership role of the USA. Nobody took it away; the Bushies simply walked away
from it.
China and the ASEAN countries are busy at setting up a European Union structure
for Asia;
the USA has no part whatsoever in this. One can quite seriously say that the
USA has no
foreign policy whatsoever now. Even Denmark has a foreign policy. But not the
USA. Bush's
first reaction to the tsunami? He didn't care, and he didn't see why he should
care.
So, will we kick Bush around for four more years? Like, who cares? He's
irrelevant. He made
himself irrelevant.
Will Hillary be president afterwards? Of what? In the next few years, the
Bushies will have
demolished so much that the next president, if we even have a next president,
will preside
over very little.
Let's see what happens at the inauguration. Last time, the Bushies sent out
tens of
thousands of invitations, and perhaps a quarter of the seats were
embarrassingly empty.
Those had to be covered up, to prevent TV cameras from showing empty stands.
Meanwhile there
were massive demonstrations and his limosine was pelted with eggs. Bush was
unable to walk
down Pennsylvania Avenue.
This time, the demonstrators plan to line the path and turn their backs on Bush.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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