repug opportunists

Every Crisis an Opportunity
It's an old business myth that the Chinese character for "crisis" combines the characters for "danger" and "opportunity." It doesn't. But I'm not sure anyone's told the Bush administration, judging from this little tidbit in CongressDaily today: "[White House spokesman Trent] Duffy asserted that the vast spending that would be required to address the hurricane's impact adds to the need to change Social Security, which threatens to strain the budget in coming years." Ah yes, despite the fact that privatization that would add trillions to the deficit in the short term, at a time when Katrina will already add $100 billion or more to the deficit this year, the time for privatization is now, obviously, in the wake of disaster. Um, no.

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Do these slimeballs really think that the public is this stupid?! Obviously, they do - let's just hope that the public rises above their expectations this time!
Of course, no one was falling for their Social Security bs even before Katrina - i can't imagine that anyone would think that it was a good idea now!