why does this NOT suprise me?
I am not usually one to spout off about politics like I intimately know what is going on, but I do trust
The New Yorker and the bad gut-rot feeling I get when it comes to Bush.
"'Most of the tax cuts went to low- and middle-income Americans,' Bush said during his final debate with Senator John Kerry. This is false—a lie, actually—though at least it suggests some dim awareness that the reverse Robin Hood approach to tax cuts is politically and morally repugnant."
"Citizens for Tax Justice, a Washington research group whose findings have proved highly dependable, notes that, this year, a typical person in the lowest fifth of the income distribution will get a tax cut of ninety-one dollars, a typical person in the middle fifth will pocket eight hundred and sixty-three dollars, and a typical person in the top one per cent will collect a windfall of fifty-nine thousand two hundred and ninety-two dollars."
"[Bush] lives and works within a self-created bubble of faith-based affirmation. Nowhere has his solipsism been more damaging than in the case of Iraq. The arguments and warnings of analysts in the State Department, in the Central Intelligence Agency, in the uniformed military services, and in the chanceries of sympathetic foreign governments had no more effect than the chants of millions of marchers."
For the full article,
click here. Thank you to
Book Kitten once again--always a very good blog to read regarding lots of interesting news happenings. It is an incredibly well-researched, scathing, yet intelligent, article. Makes me want to cry just thinking about Bush in for another 4 years. *goes off to bawl in private*