At least the trains will be on schedule
The other night something came to my mind that I was hoping that I could share with all of you. That question is this: should Bush get re-elected, what do you think he will be like?
I ask this question primarilly to the Republicans who keep burying their heads in the sand, or whatever it is they are doing. Bush has started a war without provocation, led the country into a recession, cut spending for every academic program not related either to business or law (in my own field, it is now harder to enter a literature Ph.D. program than law or medical school), and single handedly destroyed our nation's reputation world wide. Add to this the American citizens who have been locked up under the Patriot Act, and the invasions of privacy which that act either threatens or achieves, the placing of Haliburton at the head of our army's chain of command (Haliburton was giving the orders to American soldiers in the Iraqui prisons), not to mention the acceptance that Enron's business practices are not worth troubling the legal system over. Oh, I forgot, he also bungled the intelligence that would have prevented 9/11. But enough about Bush now. I want to talk about the soon-to-be Bush.
A president's first term is generally a sedate one. They do not wish to make too many waves for fear that they will not be re-elected. It is under the President's second term when real things start happening. Without the worry of re-election, the President may then act in ways that are not as popular with the American people. Can you, for a moment, imagine what that would entail. Republicans, as you scoff at the previous paragraph knowing full well that I am at least partially right on the President's list of "achievements" so far, but yet still, comfortable in your decision to vote republican anyway, I want you to think about the future President George W. Bush, the one that knows he's going to be inevitably out of the white house, no matter what. Without the "restraint" that he's shown so far, what do you think he's capable of?
I ask this question primarilly to the Republicans who keep burying their heads in the sand, or whatever it is they are doing. Bush has started a war without provocation, led the country into a recession, cut spending for every academic program not related either to business or law (in my own field, it is now harder to enter a literature Ph.D. program than law or medical school), and single handedly destroyed our nation's reputation world wide. Add to this the American citizens who have been locked up under the Patriot Act, and the invasions of privacy which that act either threatens or achieves, the placing of Haliburton at the head of our army's chain of command (Haliburton was giving the orders to American soldiers in the Iraqui prisons), not to mention the acceptance that Enron's business practices are not worth troubling the legal system over. Oh, I forgot, he also bungled the intelligence that would have prevented 9/11. But enough about Bush now. I want to talk about the soon-to-be Bush.
A president's first term is generally a sedate one. They do not wish to make too many waves for fear that they will not be re-elected. It is under the President's second term when real things start happening. Without the worry of re-election, the President may then act in ways that are not as popular with the American people. Can you, for a moment, imagine what that would entail. Republicans, as you scoff at the previous paragraph knowing full well that I am at least partially right on the President's list of "achievements" so far, but yet still, comfortable in your decision to vote republican anyway, I want you to think about the future President George W. Bush, the one that knows he's going to be inevitably out of the white house, no matter what. Without the "restraint" that he's shown so far, what do you think he's capable of?
posted by Monstro D. Whale at
1:31 PM
1 Comments:
I have a few predictions for a Bush second term (although I'm not a Republican doing their best impression of an ostrich, rather I am a Lit Ph.D. doing my best impression of a Political Scientist):
1) Take aggressive military action against Iran
2) Develop tactical nukes thereby permanently derailing global non-proliferation efforts
3) "Own" America’s social programs into virtual non-existence.
Let's just hope that never happens...
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