Exploiting 2001's tragedy rather than accounting for it
Sunday night, President Bush went before the nation to announce that even though the U.S. occupation of Iraq is going wonderfully, with its conversion to a modern western democracy right on schedule, it'll cost a lot more than we expected, and it'll take a long time. Some $87 billion more, in fact, and as for the time, well, it'll be a long road. Don't ask so many questions.
It'll be a much shorter road, of course, if Bush and the thick-headed ideologues surrounding him are out of jobs come next November. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
One of the reasons Bush and his cabal have mostly continued to enjoy a bizarre exemption from accountability is their unparalleled ability to bury bad news. Bill Clinton was a master at this, and early in Dubya's career on the national stage, in his "compassionate conservative" days, George tried the Slick Willie approach: if we really think our Fearless Leader cares, we're less likely to notice that we're getting screwed.
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