Recycled rhetoric

Salon.com | Recycled rhetoric: "he coming defeat of President Bush on Social Security will be the defining moment in domestic policy and politics for his second term and for the future of the Republican Party. It will be a central, clarifying event because Bush alone chose to make this fight."

Bush needs to stick to fighting amorphic enemies like terrorism. Generally, whenever he gets specific, he loses. I'm really, really hopeful that his venal attempt to pump up the investment community will blow up on him and 2006 will see a Democratic controlled Congress. (Hey, a guy can dream.)

The American people will defer to their president when he rails about national defense. It was inconceivable that the president would lie to us about a foreign threat, so Bush was able to get us into Iraq.

But, he's in trouble when he starts lying to us about things that really impact us directly and that we can independently review.