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Oh! Here’s a surprise: “Bush Budget will increase Military Spending.” No Shit.

Bush, hoping to get his domestic agenda back on track after a year of political setbacks, unveiled a budget blueprint with a heavy emphasis on keeping the country strong militarily. It would also make his first-term tax cuts permanent, at a cost of $1.4 trillion over 10 years, and still achieve his goal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009.

Where does he get all the money? I figure my taxes from now until my death have already been spent on this war. And we haven’t even gotten into Iran yet. But we will: to wit:

“My administration has focused the nation’s resources on our highest priority — protecting our citizens and our homeland,” Bush said in his budget message.

Whenever I hear the word “homeland” I keep mistaking it for “motherland” which dredges up all kind of German imagery. No doubt from my youthful passion of watching movies like “the Great Escape”. It is undeniable, however, that our administration has taken whole chapters out of Goebbel’s book of propaganda whole cloth.

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Meanwhile, in an adjacent reality, Senate Democrats snipe each other over slightly less pressing issues. Barack Obama gets spittled upon my John McCain. This is much preferable, you see, than actually trying to unite to take out the ruling party. If they actually achieve that, then they would be forced to try to lead this country. It’s much easier to be the downtrodden underdogs, whining about supper leftovers and mistreatment, than to be the movers and shakers they pretend they want to be. Career politicos only concern themselves with having a job until they retire, just like in any other industry. The higher goal of protecting the rights and safety of the plebeians, John McCain reminds Mr. Obama, is for naïve freshmen and not for the tenured professionals.

To Quote:

“I have been around long enough to appreciate that in politics, the public interest isn’t always a priority for every one of us,” McCain wrote. “Good luck to you, senator.”

I wish the whole nation “good luck.” We’ll need it as the Democrats waffle while the Republicans continue World War 3 in pursuit of American-owned Middle East oil fields. How else can we detach our dependency on foreign oil? By taking over those countries and making of them America Lite. Exactly what the Chinese did for Tibet, we now attempt in Iraq. Will we all live through this mess? Only with luck.