It seems that Dumbya is getting scared of becoming just another 1-term Bush. As a result, he is throwing out bits of political chum in hope of attracting some independent sharks.
Bush considers a national sales tax...
"It's an interesting idea," Bush told an "Ask President Bush" campaign forum here. "You know, I'm not exactly sure how big the national sales tax is going to have to be, but it's the kind of interesting idea that we ought to explore seriously."
Prompting this response from someone who isn't desperate for people to like him...
"Trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea." Bruce Bartlett economist, columnist, National Review Online.
That didn't seem to draw any positive attention to him, so then, Dumbya decided to announce that he's...
Bringing the troops home...
Wow! That sounds great! Until you realize that he's probably bringing them home to aid in the Patriotic Police State that he and Ashcroft seem perilously close to creating.
Of course, even though Dumbya is anouncing it now, this would take place over the next decade and none of the troops considered are the ones we are hoping to see come home...
The moves, they said, would not affect U.S. troops based in Iraq or Afghanistan, where there are about 120,000 troops and 20,000 troops respectively.
Don Rumsfeld explained the plan as such...
"We've decided that it's time to shift our posture in Europe and Asia and around the world and move from static defense, which does not make much sense today, to a more deployable and usable set of capabilities," Rumsfeld said.
One can only assume that he meant to say Old Europe.
Democrats immediately began criticizing the plan...
In a statement released by the Democratic National Committee, retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former presidential candidate and former NATO supreme commander, said the redeployment from Europe and Asia would "significantly undermine U.S. national security."
"This ill-conceived move and its timing seem politically motivated rather than designed to strengthen our national security," Clark said.
I believe that there could be some well-conceived reorganization of our deployment, but that is a debate for another post.
I just wanted to comment on Dumbya's kitchen sink-campaign effort to throw all of this out there in hope that he can find something...anything to run on rather than his dismal record of the past 4 years.
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