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Mmm homemade miso soup!good ol’ miso soup… The coleslaw of Asian restaurants.
(via pegobry:Must. Read.)
Of course Bush screwed up and he screwed up royally. But after 2004 they should have immediately shifted their framing efforts toward linking Bush’s policies to the broader Republican philosophy and party. These mistakes simply weren’t the blunders of a comical former drunk who invented them out of thin air and then mismanaged their implementation. This was the first time in a very long time that republicans controlled both the Congress and the Executive branch and the events of sept 11th allowed them to push through many of the changes they have wanted to for decades. These were moves straight out of the heritage foundation playbook. Bush didn’t just dream up novel foreign policy or domestic efforts on education and environmental fronts. He didn’t just think to himself one day that privatizing social security would be a good idea. These are republican philosophies and world views that Bush et al. were able to push toward in a very real way. This was the country’s first full taste of how such world views work out in practice for working people and those less fortunate, and they really didn’t like the taste. And sadly, the dems are letting their anger at Bush potentially create a situation where the American people are going to associate that taste aversion with Bush and not with the entire conservative Republican movement initiated under Reagan.
If they allow McCain to set a framework where he is more sensible than Bush and will make better judgments in implementing what were good but mismanaged ideas, they will have squandered a generational opportunity to link republicans with failed policies and being out of touch with families and their futures.
mmmm… 2 slices of pizza….“That $5 you’d ordinarily spend on two slices of pizza can help feed four children for a week and you don’t actually need to skip lunch to help out! You can help, even with a small donation. Make a tax-deductible donation online here.”Do this.
I kid, I kid.
back at Reagan and now off to south beach for some non-work fun. I have such a love/hate relationship with Miami… Love the weather, the beach, the food, the fun… But any more than a few days around some of the sorts of people who live there and I get to feeling a little stabby…