From The Economist print edition Jul 24th 2008

Unhappy America çsee it hereç

“NATIONS, like people, occasionally get the blues; and right now the United States, normally the world’s most self-confident place, is glum. Eight out of ten Americans think their country is heading in the wrong direction. The hapless George Bush is partly to blame for this: his approval ratings are now sub-Nixonian. …”   

    

Wait.  Wait!  Surely The Economist made a mistake.  Bush is not hapless.  He is hopless.  Hapless implies a spot of bad luck.  Bush is the bad luck.  He is the disastorous hood ornament on the NeoCoNazi Juggarnaut that has brough us to this glum state.  But let us read on …  

   

“… But many are concerned not so much about a failed president as about a flailing nation.”      

   

Yes indeed.  The short term pockebook issue will always override issues with much greater implication long term.  Unfortunately this failed president has faded into the woodwork.  Unfortunate because he and his minions must be held accountable for the terrific damage they have done to America.  They must be kept in the voters’ view so that McBush does not get the chance to continue the the disastorous policies that have gotten us to where we are.   

   

“One source of angst is the sorry state of American capitalism (see article). The “Washington consensus” told the world that open markets and deregulation would solve its problems. Yet American house prices are falling faster than during the Depression, petrol is more expensive than in the 1970s, banks are collapsing, the euro is kicking sand in the dollar’s face, credit is scarce, recession and inflation both threaten the economy, consumer confidence is an oxymoron and Belgians have just bought Budweiser, ‘America’s beer’.”

  

      

Ah yes – “open markets and deregulation”, the mantra of the NeoCons.  It surely has worked for us, hasn’t it?  And if you liked George W. Bush’s implementation of that philosophy, you’ll love a third term of Bu$hite ideology under McCain if he manages to stumble into the presidency courtesy of the gullible lamebrains  amongst us. 

      

Let us review the fruits of the NeoCons’ version of open markets and deregulation, as noted by the conservative Economist:

·        American house prices are falling faster than during the Depression;

·        petrol is more expensive than in the 1970s;

·        banks are collapsing;

·        the euro is kicking sand in the dollar’s face;

·        credit is scarce;

·        recession and inflation both threaten the economy;

·        consumer confidence is an oxymoron;

·        Belgians have just bought Budweiser, ‘America’s beer’.  

   

By George, now there’s a legacy to be proud of!!       

   

   

Support Obama for President.

Flush the Republicans out of Congress. 

Impeach Bush and Cheney.