Shorter Bush: Spare the social program and spoil the poor

From today's WaPo, why the midterms in 06 will be so important.

"However improbable the odds at this point or modest his short-term goals, aides say, Bush still subscribes to Rove's long-held dream that his will be the transformational presidency that lays the groundwork for a Republican majority that can endure, as Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal coalition did, for a half-century or more. Once he gets past the midterm elections, Bush plans to introduce a concept that, if anything, is even more ambitious than his failed Social Security plan: a grand overhaul that would include not only that program but Medicare and Medicaid as well."

If Americans give this man another Republican thugopoly in the Congress - we won't have an America left in 08. At least not one we recognize anymore.