All part of the plan?
Bush returns to the gulf coast again? He must really be feeling the heat. Not sure why, though, he never has to deal with another election. Must be the GOP leaning on him so that he can help them out in the midterm elections.
Meanwhile, Karl Rove in Aspen, staying on message about the success of the Bush Administration that simply hasn't come to light. He said it's just a question of elucidating Bush's accomplishments. Well, it seems like it's probably time to do that, seeing as Bush's poll ratings are at an all time low.
I have yet to see any conspiracy theories that the incompetence of the current administration is actually just a master plan to drown government in a bathtub. The plan goes something like this: install a bumbling boob in the presidency who will spend the government into bankruptcy while cutting taxes. Do a poor job of handling national crises so that people will come to distrust the government and not rely on it. While you're there, get some fat contracts for your buddies and make sure your wealthy colleagues get plenty of tax rollbacks. Eventually everybody will be screaming to drown government in a bathtub because it is clear that the government is doing nothing beneficial for the average American and everything for the wealthy. People turn to the private sector to answer their woes and the conservative revolution is complete. It's the same sort of story in "The Hudsucker Proxy" and
"The Producers". A nice conspiracy theory helps us believe that someone is steering, as opposed to all of us simply being witnesses to a slow-motion disaster.
In the end, it's about faith. It seems like the remaining supporters of the president now are those that have always had a starry-eyed belief in Bush the Protector, and would follow him right off that final figurative cliff. It's a faith-based presidency. The president is a religious man, and his followers are, too. There's no hard evidence for the existence of God, just as there's no hard evidence that Bush is doing anything he's supposed to, but the true believers believe. Bush said there were WMDs in Iraq, and they believed it. Bush later said there were no WMDs, but the war is necessary to spread democracy in the Middle East, and the people believe it. It's really only cult leaders and self-help gurus that enjoy that kind of blind support, and Bush's cult is still remarkably fervent, considering his performance. It's almost as if they think he were the Second Coming of Christ, an opinion Bush might even share with his flock. The Bush Administration can therefore afford to continuously eschew informed condemnation and even scientific fact to advance its goals, although not as effectively as before the cat was out of the bag.
Meanwhile, Karl Rove in Aspen, staying on message about the success of the Bush Administration that simply hasn't come to light. He said it's just a question of elucidating Bush's accomplishments. Well, it seems like it's probably time to do that, seeing as Bush's poll ratings are at an all time low.
I have yet to see any conspiracy theories that the incompetence of the current administration is actually just a master plan to drown government in a bathtub. The plan goes something like this: install a bumbling boob in the presidency who will spend the government into bankruptcy while cutting taxes. Do a poor job of handling national crises so that people will come to distrust the government and not rely on it. While you're there, get some fat contracts for your buddies and make sure your wealthy colleagues get plenty of tax rollbacks. Eventually everybody will be screaming to drown government in a bathtub because it is clear that the government is doing nothing beneficial for the average American and everything for the wealthy. People turn to the private sector to answer their woes and the conservative revolution is complete. It's the same sort of story in "The Hudsucker Proxy" and
"The Producers". A nice conspiracy theory helps us believe that someone is steering, as opposed to all of us simply being witnesses to a slow-motion disaster.
In the end, it's about faith. It seems like the remaining supporters of the president now are those that have always had a starry-eyed belief in Bush the Protector, and would follow him right off that final figurative cliff. It's a faith-based presidency. The president is a religious man, and his followers are, too. There's no hard evidence for the existence of God, just as there's no hard evidence that Bush is doing anything he's supposed to, but the true believers believe. Bush said there were WMDs in Iraq, and they believed it. Bush later said there were no WMDs, but the war is necessary to spread democracy in the Middle East, and the people believe it. It's really only cult leaders and self-help gurus that enjoy that kind of blind support, and Bush's cult is still remarkably fervent, considering his performance. It's almost as if they think he were the Second Coming of Christ, an opinion Bush might even share with his flock. The Bush Administration can therefore afford to continuously eschew informed condemnation and even scientific fact to advance its goals, although not as effectively as before the cat was out of the bag.
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