To the last drop
by
Clyde
8:30 AM
Let's face facts, George W. Bush is mauling the country's fiscal titty like a pubescent 14 year old. But after 7 years of squeezing the milk laden breast like an overwrought farm boy, time is getting as short as the supply.
This latest "emergency" supplemental for the occupation of Iraq is nothing more than a last ditch effort to squeeze out every penny he can for his corporate cronies. He has too get the money before the new year because if there is one truism about Republicans, it's that they become very fiscally conservative in election years.
You see, if Blackwater, KBR and the rest of the war profiteers want to get paid, then he needs to get the money in the pipeline now, before the Republicans go on the campaign trail. Already congressional Republicans are going to be forced to traipse the countryside justifying their votes to keep Iraqis healthy while ignoring the jaundiced babies of the average "values voter."
In the past, the Republicans had other issues that they could use to divide the American people enough to stay in power but you watch, next year when the campaign gets into full swing, you are going to see Republicans drawn towards fiscal responsibility like Larry Craig to the commode section of Home Depot. It's the only arrow they think they have left in the quiver.
And if Bush wants to enrich any more of his friends he needs to do it now because chances are the next president will more than likely be a Democrat. And depending on which one it is, the monetary gravy train that corporate America now enjoys is probably going to dry up faster than a Georgian reservoir.
Personally, I think Bush knows that we are on the cusp of another New Deal era and he wants to get as much as he can for his benefactors as fast as he can. With the specter of universal healthcare and alternative energies looming on the horizon, the future of two traditionally core Republican cash cow industries are in peril of jumping ship towards the Democrats in order to stay in business.
Big Oil is already making the shift and becoming "energy" companies as opposed to the traditional moniker and there is no wonder why. Almost every military action over the last 40 years was fought over oil and the American people are getting tired of it. So, the only way they can remain viable is to move their business towards other means of production and they are going to need the Democrats to make the shift.
Insurance companies on the other hand have a little more difficult row to hoe. They produce no commodity so they will need to find other means to make up the monetary shortfall that universal healthcare threatens. Either they will need to somehow be included in the plan, therefore they need the support of the Democrats. Or, they will need legislation passed making some new type of insurance mandatory, therefore they need the support of the Democrats.
Either way, the Democrats are in control and corporate America knows it, even if Pelosi and Reid don't.
(I said almost every military action, Panama was so George H. W. Bush could prove to the world he had a dick and Grenada was so Reagan could prove his dick still had the ability to get hard. After all, it was pre-Viagra.)
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