cause I'm bad for your health i come real stealth
Though the President was blubbering about "entitlement reform" just a day after November 2nd, The Monsters of Rove 2004-2005 Tour has officially kicked off, a festival of right-wing economic lies that apparently will convince the pleebs that only by ridding the land of the scourge of Social Security - or, "entitlements," surely a Frank Luntz-inspired mutiliation of the language of the social contract if if I ever saw one - can we kill the ghost of Karl Marx forever.
A key graf - the last, no surprise there - in an ABC online piece about the Magical Fistery Tour reads as follows:
"I'm looking forward to working with members of both chambers and both parties to confront this issue today, before it becomes more acute," Bush said. "By doing so, we will send a message not only to the American people that we're here for the right reason, but we'll send a message to the financial markets that we recognize that we have an issue with both short-term deficits and the long-term deficits of the unfunded liabilities of entitlement programs."
Less to do with the American people of course than the financial markets, but more importantly, that innocuous and responsible-sounding last line is the one that's going to be bandied around the talk shows and suffocating the stories of the NYT and WashPost; a line that will probably come to live in infamy, much like those sixteen words or Condi's "we can't wait for the warning to come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
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