[lit-ideas] Re: Priorities
- From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:39:52 -0500
**Unfortunately, you've forgotten the inevitable, harmful effect if the
current administration is able to choose a Supreme Court justice -- the
damage will be profound in both the near and long terms.
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ
Andreas Ramos wrote:
>>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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