As a Democrat, my overarching belief is that the government is my government. I am part and parcel of my government. The government budget is my budget. I paid into it, and so did you, and hundreds of millions of other people, to address my priorities, and yours, and hundreds of millions of other people. The parks are my parks. The forests are my forests. I paid for them, those trees are mine. When some lumber company treks onto my land and chops down my trees and sells the timber to Japan and I get nothing for it, I think that's theft.
Daniel M. Laenker gives us a quick history lesson:
Laura Bush is a good woman, and certainly an intelligent woman. So I can't understand how she can say, apparently credulously, that "no American president ever wants to go to war".
A brief glance at American history summarily belies that: there's Tyler and Polk, grooving on annexing a third of Mexico...
Posted by Warrior Tang at September 6, 2004 10:48 AM
