Madman Across The Water
Well, there you go. Even my predicted legal challenge hasn't stopped Dubya winning not only the electoral college but the popular vote as well. As long as my arse points south I'll never fathom the intellect of half of the American populace. A man who patently has difficulty grasping the idea that other points of view might - just might - have some validity. A man who by his own admission uses biblical tracts to form policy. A man who thinks (like Tony Blair) that the world was created in six days by some Big Guy who lives in the sky. A man who probably thinks he is the Big Guy's representative here on earth.I'll never understand the over-reliance on God, the constant references to him during what should be rational debate on the relevant issues of the day. God wants you to vote for Bush. God hates gays. God hates pro-choicers. God loves The Rifle Association and the Gun Lobby. God ain't keen on pinko, pansy-loving, do-gooding East coast liberals. God ain't happy about parts of the Constitution. God's a Good Ol' Boy, a staunch Republican Redneck. God blesses America time and time and time again.
And the rest of us stare with a mixture of distaste, pity and fear. What will the next four years bring? What do you think George will want to do with his new mandate? Bring the nation together? Compromise with abortionists? Discuss the way forward with Gays and Lesbians? Tax the super-rich to provide welfare for the significant number who fall through the net? Accept that other people have views that are valid regardless of the fact that they don't fit in with viewpoint of the New American Century? Admit that, on occasions mistakes have been made? Give juicy Federal contracts to companies with the best Tender rather than Halliburton?
I don't think so. Do you?
The winds of 'more of the same' will have quite an effect over here as well. Tony will struggle more and more as 'our boys' come under increasing attack in Iraq. The place has become a magnet for Radical Islam. Any accounts you read of the place describe a lawless place with a few besieged cities dotted around. The Black Watch convoy traveling up the main road from Basra to Baghdad is testament to this. Attacked at least twice in a land where the mission has been accomplished.
Wouldn't have happened under Saddam.
And many observers believe Iran's next! I'd like to hear Tony justifying that little jaunt.
I think a combination of Bush-endorsement and deep unpopularity might just tip the scales in favour of Brown making his move. Whether he does this before or after the election I don't know. Perhaps Tony's heart problem will fortuitously raise its head again. Who knows?
It's a good job the Tories are in such a mess.
Looks a few more scapegoats have been crushed as they oiled the wheels of industry. Claims of false accounting involving a multinational company? Sounds familiar don't it? Hope the pension fund's OK.
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