Well, I’ve gotta congratulate myself. It took a year, but I’ve finally managed to leapfrog the conventional wisdom:
That said, I’ve become more or less resigned to a Bush victory. I’m becoming very zen about the whole thing. If re-elected, Bush is going to inherit a mess of his own making. It’ll be fun to watch him clean it up. He’ll absolutely have to raise taxes, or else not even try to implement the laundry list of domestic initiatives he outlined in his acceptance speech. Either way, he’ll have to admit to his own failure. Wouldn’t you pay to see that?
- Frank Bruno, Sept. 7, 2004
But here’s another brilliant Bush counter-argument: wouldn’t we actually be holding him accountable by re-electing him? For the first time in his entire life, Bush may actually be forced to take responsibility for his own actions if he is re-elected and becomes the LBJ of the Iraq war. I wonder why Bush-haters haven’t thought of this: that the way to punish Bush is to force him to live through the consequences of his own policies.
- Andrew Sullivan, Sept. 23, 2004
Boo-yah!
Now Playing: Episode 356
The Republican Convention, Fannie and Freddie go bust, and finally, our international news roundup.
Links Mentioned: Europeans try to placate the Russians … details on the bail-out … a brief history of Fannie and Freddie … Mark Schmitt on Obama’s high-risk, high-reward strategy … Biden tears it up on the trail.
