Kevin at Truck and Barter reminds us that Putin used the I Can Fly trick in his 2000 election campaign. I wonder what else W has learned from the Russians. Oh yes, how to maintain gulags.
NB: Bloggered permalink alert. This reference is to Kevin’s May 2, 2003 post.
Charles Dodson was busy yesterday. He has commentary on Bush’s Lincoln speach, the 2002 stats on worldwide terrorist attacks (down 30%, maybe), and yet another Iraq conspiracy theory: just why did the Republican Guard disappear? These posts appear one after the other in sequence so you get just the top link.
The Talking Dog thinks the country would be in better health if W put in as many hours working as he does training.
Leonard at Unruled quotes a report from Donald Luskin on an meeting Luskin had with W. Luskin tells us that W is ‘…the best friend…’ capitalism ‘… is likely to get nowadays.’
Leonard finds this sad and so do I. Now I don’t know what definition of capitalism these folks are using but I’m pretty sure W does not use the same one I do and I’m a little surprised that Donald Luskin is taken in by this. W ‘built’ most of his wealth on the backs of the local taxpayers who will be paying for the Texas Ranger’s stadium for many years to come. And there is nothing about this that is anywhere close to the free market capitalism I think Luskin would espouse.
If the elimination of the double taxation of dividends (see the Luskin quote above) were part of a cohesive, well documented, long term plan to move us toward a truly capitalist society I might accept his argument. But this is not the case and there is little else, if anything, that W has initiated that suggests tht this is his goal. Nope, I don’t think W is anywhere close to being a friend of capitalism.
Order of succession. Would you want any of these people to be president?
Ok, there may be some sentiment that #4 on the list might be acceptable but he has been playing a pretty big part in this mess.