November 09, 2004
The Conciliatory Bush
A few friends have recently said to me (desperately hoped?), "Well, now Bush may want to be seen as a 'good' president in history and might do the right thing and won't have to pander to a narrow voting audience."
Well, he's certainly going to do the Right thing. He's pushing to ban gay marriage, he's pushing to make tax cuts permanent, he'll be pushing anti-abortion Supreme Court Justices, and he just pushed into Fallujah.
Well, Hallelujah for "reaching across the aisle." I think people just assumed he wasn't reaching across to yank their chains. Ahhh, well.
At least we can return to my initial take on things: Bush now owns everything, so if anything goes wrong, it's HIS FAULT.
See Tom Toles political cartoon below for clarification of my position:
