Spring Forecast? It's Gloomy.
The rites of spring have returned to the capital. The daffodils are blooming. The Easter eggs are rolling. The perch are running. And members of the Bush Cabinet are warning about entitlement calamity.
"Rising costs will drive government spending to unprecedented levels, consume nearly all projected federal revenues and threaten America's future prosperity," a distressed Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson announced at a news conference yesterday afternoon....
-- Dana Milbank
By washingtonpost.com |
March 26, 2008; 7:41 AM ET
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Posted by: H.L. Mencken | March 27, 2008 4:55 PM
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Who are the watch dogs of the American press? Where is there oversight for the behaviors of our news heralds?
Do they maintain behaviors and deportments that are consistent with behaviors that are imposed by them through their news rhetoric upon politicians priests scientists or a married day laborer? Indeed do they insidiously practice political correctness in their personal private behaviors as so practiced in their written rendition? I doubt it!
These privileged Homo sapiens are endowed with a superior set of synapses that advantage them in our American modus vivendi inextricably above all others that unfortunately are cursed in the illusion of the big lie that all men are created equally when the truth is they are equal only from the neck down!
But these folks believe they are as privileged as Orwell's "Animal Farm" pig Wilbur, simply because they are the neophillia progressive democratic philosophers who know the truth of everything and know what is best for all of us!Thanks wealthy democrats-gee I did not know what I wanted until you told me! Thanks Mr Kennedy I will be sure to demonstrate my thanks by voting for John McCain!