Friday, May 02, 2003

President George W. Bush and Mount Rushmore

Interesting article today at Salon about "Profiles in Courage," a book "written" by John F. Kennedy, and how it applies to President Bush. While I certainly would encourage checking the whole article out(although it does require you to see several ads if are not a member), one paragraph jumped out at me particularly.

" . . . when it comes to his domestic agenda, his programs are as unwise as any can be. Missing from the way in which Bush argues on behalf of his tax cut is any sense that the prospects of future generations will be severely crippled by the fantastic sums the government will have to expend in interest payments to cover the deficits his policy seems designed to produce. No tale of fiscal woe from governors, even those of his own party, moves him. No knowledge of what has happened in history when governments have acted with fiscal irresponsibility matters to him. It is as if the actual country, its families and their lives, are secondary to his inward determination never to back down on a promise that only the extreme right wing ever recalls him making. His policies are those of a man more concerned with the strength of his political base than the strength of his country."

Anyway pretty scathing--although the article is not unfair. It does mention his success in the foreign policy arena.

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