] First lady Laura Bush, in a rare foray into foreign
] policy Tuesday, planned to present her husband as a
] commanding warrior against terrorism in a prime-time
] convention speech highlighting his leadership in "the
] most historic struggle my generation has ever known."

Well I don't think anyone who has read me thinks I have any respect for the president, and they'd be right. This "warrior" is perfectly generous with other people's lives and money, and what she's talking about (the war on terror, ooooh, let's fight a concept) isn't all that.

But she's right that we're looking at the most important struggle of my generation (not hers, that would be Vietnam, the cold war or Nixon's subversion of the democratic process, although shrub's version of that wasn't any better). Four more years of Shrub will probably be sufficient to throw this country into the kind of distopia that pops up in bad television and movies like Max Headroom, Freejack and Robocop.

The Bush revolution is to have government intrude on a moral level, to spend so prolifigately that any ability the government might have had to do things to protect its citizens from others will be lost because they can't afford it. At the same time, the interest caused by that public debt will go towards funnelling more money and more power towards the same people who have been and will abuse it.