It looks like bush will be bombing Iran come summer. What a crazy country we've become.

Maybe its time for some more Color-Coded Terror alerts? Somehow I don't feel that yet another war waged against the Axis of Evil will guarantee a jump in Bush popularity. We have, maybe, enough soldiers to fight the Syrians and the Iraqi's and the Afghani's at once, but not the Iranians. That theatre will be cruise missles and Steath. Keep your eye on the global satellite coverage of the US task forces in the area,when they start to move south of the straits, back toward open water about 1500 miles out, put the helmet on.

Frist's appearance in the Family Council's telecast on April 24 is covered in Do You Feel Nuclear, Punk?

Guess he learned a few things about "taking it to the people" from the Social Security bamboozlepalooza.

Quick take on the apparent back-off by Bush on Privatizing SS. Don't fall for it. The "add-on" pitch is an end run. They'd love to get the Dems to agree to add-on accounts, and from there it's just a short hop to privatize them, say in the Spring of 07. No deals, period. Let Bush twist on this.

Remember how the attempt to institute the Great Society and fight a war at the same time proved to be the undoing of the Democratic Party?

What goes around, comes around.

Hey everybody!

Looks like we might be headed for DOW 9,999 next week.

Can I get an AMEN for the market!

T2, I'm with you on the Social Security doublespeak we hearing...I don't trust these guys as far as I can throw them.

I want to see Bush's proposal. Let him play his cards first. Dems don't fall for anything this administration says, they are proven liars.

T2, good point. Isn't it weird how there were all of those color-coded alerts just before the election, and pretty much silence on that front evey since? Does this mean we've won the war on terror?

Another diversion? Might be time for Rove to have a 757 plow into the Sears Tower. That oughta be good for a couple more years of fearmongering and demonizing the left.

Maskit, no, it means Bush won the election.

The martial law we'll see declared after an attack on the Iranians should do just fine, thank you very much. The Iranians won't take being attacked by the US lying down and the first thing they'll do is attack the shipping through the Straits of Hormuz against Saudi-owned or cargoed vessels, just to make sure the Saudi understand the price of supporting the US. Then, of course, the Iranians will be conducting strikes all over the planet against American-owned or chartered tankers a la the USS Cole. They may even wind up just dumping mines into US harbors to drive the point home. It wouldn't take much to bring all maritime traffic into the Texas ports to a screeching halt. This isn't even WMD stuff, just the marine equivalent of IEDs in Baghdad.

The US Navy in its infinite blue water wisdom has ignored anti-mine warfare for years, leaving itself and the US eminently vulnerable. They've always expected our allies to assume that burden. It's tough when you have no allies left. It's hard, hard work, as we've been told.

I thought this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/13/international/13terror.html?

was the Bush administration response to the low approval ratings (among all the other issues mentioned in this post) for Bush. The color coded warnings were getting so passe. Much better to actually indict a few "suspected" terrorists.

my less tinfoil-lined thought is that Rove et al.'s goal for the nookulur option is precisely to bring the government to a halt. Being front-man for this allows Frist to endear himself to the frothing theocrats, and getting the Dems to shut down congress gives them a convenient excuse not to meet the theocrats' demands. Remember, Rove doesn't want happy right-wingers, he wants incensed right wingers who hate Democrats.

Mark Shields suggested tonight that the GOP may want the Dems. to tie up the Senate. That way, they can haave the best of both worlds, being in true control and yet playing the victim. The victimization role has worked for them before. I'm not suggesting that I think it would work, but we need to think chesslike and plan a contengent countermove.

Maybe the Reps' killing the filibuster isn't such a bad thing. After all, no majority lasts forever, and if the economy tanks, like it looks like it's doing, then we'll have a Dem Senate in '06 and a Dem President in '08. A filibuster free Dem Senate and a filibuster free Dem President.
Oh, please, please, Mr. Frist, sir, don't throw us in that briar patch!!!

By shutting down the Government, who do you think the MSM and the Red Staters are going to blame?

Democrats taking back in the 2006 and 2008 election means just what exactly? At the point, I have no reason to believe that things would be any different.

T2, Amen. One would hope by now that Democrats wouldn't trust these thugs on anything. Bush will try anything and do anything to get this SS fraud passed. It's that old joke, if his mouth is moving, he's lying.

If 30 or so incumbants lose in 2006 the survivers will behaive better.