Air America on Bush "spending his capital" on body bags outside Fallujah

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Bush Promises to Spend his Political "Capital"

Promising to spend the political "capital" gained by his margin of victory George W. Bush put the country on notice that privatizing Social Security and Tort Reform were at the top of his agenda. Bush also promised to "to promote freedom and democracy" in the Middle East. Iraq is bracing itself for another taste of what he has in mind. In a field hospital outside Fallujah "Marines unloaded racks of body bags" in preparation for the assault on the city

The mother of all pro-Kerry political hangovers continues. The post-mortem on the electoral disaster that produced a mandate for George W and a House and Senate drubbing for the Democrats continues. Despite the four million vote surge for Dubya since 2000, Greg Palast contends that the election was stolen from Kerry via the discounting of spoiled votes. Ellen Goodman sums it up like this: "Bush supporters liked George more than Kerry supporters liked John." Paul Krugman argues that the Democrats need to have the 'Karl Rovian' confidence to appeal to the base and he calls on the Democrats to fight W 2 at every turn: "Rather than catering to voters who will never support them, the Democrats . . need to become equally effective at mobilizing their own base." Political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow writes that Democrats have "become the enablers, the loyal opposition seeking common ground . . often seem to stand for nothing at all."

In 'Corporate Welfare Spoils of War' news Halliburton's shares jumped 7% after Bush nailed the presidency. No prizes for figuring that the Army investigation into Halliburton's multi-billion dollar no-bid contracts will be put on the back burner. Now that the election is over expect more news of how the Bush administration is bankrupting the country on behalf of their friends. We now know that we've the White House will need to get Congress to raise the debt ceiling so they can borrow more. The Dow jumped a hundred points after Kerry conceded perhaps in the expectation that Bush will provide Wall Street's financial services companies with a monster windfall from his plans to privatize social security.

Tony Blair congratulated George W. by phone and afterwards told the press "We must be relentless in our war against terrorism." He added, "We should work with President Bush on this agenda. It is one which all nations of goodwill would surely agree." Yesterday three British soldiers were killed in Baghdad, where they were redeployed at US request from the relative safety of southern Iraq. The news of the deaths provoked an angry backlash against Blair. Speaking of "nations of goodwill", Hungary is pulling its troops out of Iraq.

Their time would be better spent pointing out that 51% is 2 percentage points away from losing and hardly a mandate. Have they already bought the spin?

"Mandate MY ASS"