"It will be a bad 4 years, but anything that is done legislatively can be
undone in the next 4 years."
So says a friend of mine... I say:
I worry more about what cannot be undone after 4 years (along with the theory that "growing population" states are all small, Republican states):
. Environmental decisions that make things too late
. Decisions not to curb our energy uses (AP reports say an additional $300 BILLION will go to oil-producing nations this year). That's Billion with a Bomb.
. Decreased nobility in government functions -- less trust, more corruption and "ends justify the means" policies and activity
. Badwill created around the world that can't be undone. Generations of newly-minted terrorists pissed off at us.
. Divisiveness across the country is increasing (well, I guess this can be undone, but there's no sign of it yet)
. Supreme Court becomes aggressively, uhhh, "constructionist" as Bush calls it, but that's not what he means. He means "anti-abortion." As he says, "Look at my track record."
I guess this is my biggest concern. It's not that Bush has hurt me today (heck, we're well-off and have health insurance), it's that he's setting policies in motion that hurt us all tomorrow and cannot be undone (relaxing arsenic restrictions for drinking water, and not toughening gas efficiency laws for cars, and allowing indiscriminate logging in national forests and 2-stroke engine snowmobiles in Yellowstone, to name an example or four).
Posted by BilFish at November 5, 2004 07:27 AM