It is surreal to see a U.S. President who just spend $500 billion on an illegitimate war (and is currently requesting an additional $180 billion in supplemental funding for said war) veto a bill that would cost an additional $35 billion spread over 5 years to expand health insurance coverage for American’s neediest children. What is going on in this man’s head? Frankly I am worried. The way things look for the Republican party at this point, they will drop off a cliff when the next election comes around. Even a man as manifestly detached from reality as Mr. Bush sooner or later will face this fact. What then? This fellow has his fingers on the nuclear trigger. What will he do? Declare war on Iran? Create some other diversion that he can blame on his political enemies? You may think that I am paranoid, but so far I’ve consistently underestimated the radicalism of Mr. Bush’s approach in dealing with the world. Will Mr. Bush go quietly into the night when his term ends, and take the whole Republican party with him? Will his political handlers allow this to happen? That’s the big question I am asking myself at this point.
Good night for now.
