] How will future historians explain it? How will they
] possibly explain why President George W. Bush decided to
] ignore the energy crisis staring us in the face and chose
] instead to spend all his electoral capital on a futile
] effort to undo the New Deal, by partially privatizing
] Social Security? We are, quite simply, witnessing one of
] the greatest examples of misplaced priorities in the
] history of the U.S. presidency.