Sometimes I can only scratch my head and wonder. I mean, it's easy to make snide remarks about George W. Bush's stupidity in regard to Presidential status on virtually any subject. But sometimes the depth of that stupidity just goes beyond description. For example:
Bush indicated that he was unaware that gasoline was projected to reach $4.00-per-gallon by the spring. Now set aside for a moment his dissmissiveness and potential arguments about how that's possible, and move on to the next comment.
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/0...ush-flip-flops-on-oil-company-tax-breaks-unaw
Apparently, his solution to the imaginery $4.00-per-gallon gasoline is to make his tax cut permanent. Again, set aside the arguments about the merits of the tax cut and who it benefits, etc.
No, instead his focus on the solution to $4.00-per-gallon gas is to maintain the status quo, during which status quo gas will hit $4.00-per-gallon anyway. In other words, do nothing. Gas will hit $4.00 while the tax cut is in place. How, then, does continuing the tax cut help? Bush's theory is that it would be worse if taxes went up in a couple years, then, yee-haw, wouldn't $4.00-per-gallon gas suck.
Newsflash Mr. President, $4.00 is unacceptable and unaffordable now, with the tax cut in place. Making the tax cut permanent will not alleviate the suffering caused by $4.00 gas. And I don't think anyone is worried that, gee, taxes might go up in a couple of years (which, by the way, they will - but that inevitability is a topic for another day). No, in a couple years we'll be worried about $6.00-$7.00 gas.
I wonder if we'll survive 10 more months of this monkey business.