Krugman on Bush's Class-War Budget & Hitchens on Ohio
Paul Krugman of The New York Times writes, "[Bush's] latest budget proposal is "top-down class warfare in action...The question is whether the relentless mean-spiritedness of this budget finally awakens the public to the true cost of Mr. Bush's tax policy."
Perhaps, but the failure to find weapons of mass destruction should have produced mass enlightenment regarding the administration's gross bungling of foreign policy too.
Then again, maybe the public is a bit more savvy these days, and Bush's 'political capital' simply fell off the back of a truck. See Christopher Hitchens's article, "Ohio's Odd Numbers" in the March issue of Vanity Fair. "No conspiracy theorist, and no fan of John Kerry's, the author nevertheless found the Ohio polling results impossible to swallow: Given what happened in that key state on Election Day 2004, both democracy and common sense cry out for a court-ordered inspection of its new voting machines."
