Cooked Bush

You may wonder, but I don't.

• Current situation with Iraq war;
• Having to finish Iraq War to get ready for Jeb;
• Republicans once again dividing into their "Religious" vs. "Business" oppositional camps, which will later frission into "Nutjob Religious" vs. "Pat Robertson-style Religious" vs. "John McCain-type Religious" who will all be in opposition to the "Nutjob Business-types" vs. the "Even Children Back to the Mines Business-types" vs. the "Just Old Women Back to the Mines Business-types" vs. the "All Manufacturing Overseas Business-types" vs. the "No Corporate Taxes Ever Again Business-types" vs. the "Major-League Sports Ownership Business-types" - it can't be pretty;
• the coming social/political firestorm over the impending military Draft;
• third-rail issues
• tax reform (?)
• impending rebellion of all environmental folk over coming policy shifts/implementations;
• impending rebellion of educators, particularly the (powerful) tenured who don't feel like dead wood;
• implosion/internal conflict of another state (pick one: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, North Korea, Indonesia, Egypt, a third of Africa) requiring American troops
• world trade deals in progress or coming up
• Tony Blair doesn't return this coming fall
• Cheny drops predictably dead - who replaces him?

The strategic envelope outlined by the administration appears to be defined by the making of messes, not the cleaning up, or the inclusive defining of problems, much less the solution of problems. They appear to be derivitave thinkers who divide forces in support of a thin base instead of including dissenters in their initatives.

The result will be years of mess and fuss, with the country struggling to find focus.