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George W.    [ Politics ]

The Post ran a story on Thursday claiming that Steel Tariffs Appear to Have Backfired on Bush.   Wow, meddling with markets can create negative results... who woudda guessed?

Strange that our "conservative" president is for anti-competitive, protectionist policies when they may win him votes, for tax cuts when they may win him votes, and for larger government spending when they may (you guessed it) win him votes.   Not that vote-garnering doesn't have a long and proud tradition in American politics, but Bush's decisions seem to be driven as much by political expediency and whomever he picks to win the current argument among his advisors as by any kind of overall strategy or philosophy.

Hell, I'm a liberal, and I voted for Bush in '00 since I absolutely couldn't stand Gore.   Wish I could've tossed those two back into the pre-election pool and got new candidates back, but Bush looked like the lesser of the two weevils.   Since I wasn't going to throw my vote away, figured I'd go for a change in party to get Janet Reno and others out of power.

And now we get John Ashcroft instead... woohoo.   Time for a change.