2 1/2 more years of W. Do Right seems more and more frightening to me. What may save us is a sea change in congress this fall.
Doug (Note the mention of transparency in the last op ed piece.) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/opinion/14KOHU.html?todaysheadlines "Up and down Pennsylvania Avenue, both political parties are sensing the public disquiet over the expanding list of business scandals -- and sensing, too, that this fall's mid-term elections might not be only about how well Washington is dealing with terrorism. They are right." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/opinion/14SUN1.html "It is always risky to proclaim a shift in the political landscape, but lately the tremors have been too big to ignore. Congress, which spent the 90's worshiping at the altar of big business, is now grumbling about what Theodore Roosevelt called the "malefactors of great wealth." The debt clock, which was turned off in New York City when the nation started posting budget surpluses, is back on, ticking up each American family's share of the country's red ink. On Friday the federal deficit for this year was estimated at a new high of $165 billion. A president who so confidently responded to terrorist attacks is looking less sure-footed in coping with the loss of confidence in the stock market, preventing future corporate excesses and handling questions about his own business record." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/opinion/14JENN.html?todaysheadlines "But the president who got elected on the backs of C.E.O.'s and said he wanted to run the country like a C.E.O. was about as convincing a sheriff as Barney Fife"
