Never A Plan – Always An Agenda

Once again we see a full court press by the Bush administration at selling something (in this case it's once again the Iraq war) as opposed to laying out a real plan with facts and the truth. This time the blatant propaganda speech was quaintly placed in Philadelphia in an attempt to show a non-existent comparison to revolutionary America. If it weren't for the seriousness of both I would compare it to the sickly comedic presentation in New Orleans with the overly dramatic staged and lit back drop. Excuse me while I get sick at the phony dramatics of it all. What I find that is absolutely amazing is that the neo-conservatives as a group, Bush in particular, continuously beat up the progressives for not having a plan when in reality the opposite would be truer.

As always let's look at this through a common sense lens. What is the Bush and the neo-conservative plan for our nation? We know what their agenda is and we'll discuss that in just a minute but what is their plan. (Long pregnant pause here……………………..) Yep you got it. It doesn't exist. I don't know about you but I have not heard a single conservative leader voice any kind of plan what-so-ever for the future of our nation much less for the Iraq war. If one can discern a plan at all in the muck they have created in Washington and around the nation I think it is this. The never ending tax cuts. That's it. That's all. The never ending tax cuts which they do with zeal, but then there is of course the smaller government plan which they also talk about but never get around to working on. And then there's the lower deficits plan. Yep you got it again, which they talk about and never do anything about. But, wait a minute I distinctly remember the Homeland Security plan. Oh yeah that was a plan? No…... no…… wrong on that too. That was a misguided bureaucratic behemoth that was forced on the administration by a 9/11 Commissions findings and neo-conservatives in the Senate who were desperate to run for cover and "secure America" but who didn't have a clue how to do it or leadership to carry it out. That would be why the administration got so many "F's" on the follow up Home Land Security report card a few days ago. By the way what was created was not what was recommended. My point is that this administration does not have a plan. They have never had a plan. They have only ever had an agenda and that agenda is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

News Week magazine recently described in an article the "Bubble" that George W. Bush resides in. I believe that is the most damning and true analogy I have ever read or heard in relation to this president. The real problem is that it is an impervious bubble that he resides in. He has surrounded himself with neo-conservative radicals and they have created a lopsided radical bubble world which is not based in reality. When I hear this president speak on virtually any subject and compare his comments to those of the rest of the nation it is as different as night and day. Even when his fellow conservatives, not in his bubble, speak you hear the ring of difference as though they aren't quite in concert with the big guy.

No, George W. Bush's world is not Americas world but a world where corporate America rules. His is a world where the wealthiest rule and the poor pay the price. Iraq was important to George W. Bush not because of WMD that it didn't have or 9/11 to which it had no relation or even because it might have harbored terrorist which it didn't. No it was important to George Bush because of its oil reserves. Because it was near the Saudi oil reserves and because it gave the United States a foothold in the heart of the worlds oil reserves. We will leave it at that for today.

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