The Bush Administration's Self-imposed Break From the Destruction

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The Bush Administration's Self-imposed Break From the Destruction
pm carpenter


For those who haven't noticed, the White House has been rolling out a new political strategy aimed at making itself "relevant" again.

In brief, it entails buttering up a disgruntled, disaffected public, so that it can rebuild some leverage over an alienated, apoplectic Congress, so it can then continue having its way on wasteful war spending.

That's the plan for the coming and final year -- a plan that is both humorous in its execution, and tragic in its necessity.

First the funny part. What the White House has devised is a "kitchen table" approach -- sounds homey, doesn't it? -- in which the president seizes on "new and more creative ways of engaging the public as his days in office dwindle and his clout with Congress lessens." And since the president and Congress aren't talking to each other these days, the former is simply back-dooring through executive orders what it laughably calls fresh, domestic "initiatives."

Why laughably? Because they're just more of the same old new and creative flimflam we've come to know and expect form this Orwellian outfit.

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1. First comes the bread...

Then comes the circus?