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Right now Bush Jr (I don't even have it my heart to call him Shrub anymore) is looking like a little kid who has just found out that Santa Claus is a myth.

I have always been really down on the guy on the basis that he was a nasty venal pos and to boot dim.

Now - just dim.

Surely there isn't anyone out there who really believes this free market crap , is there ? The likes of Cheney no more believe in free enterprise than Karl Marx. They believe in a system strongly slanted to support those who have access to the trough and once that access is gained to get their collective snouts well and truely into it.

Same as Russia, same as China...cronyism of the worst possible kind, just under different names.

Now that the fan is covered in excrement then the great unwashed, your jolly old huddled and yearning masses can step right up to plate and take it in the gob. You wouldn't want my nice new Zegna to get dirty now would you ? Its freedom baby and its comin' at ya in nasty smelly parcels.

But guess what ? I have this sneaking suspicion that GB Jr did believe and that right now he is feeling pretty damn stoopid cos he's just had his beliefs handed to him on a great big plate.

First Iraq and now this. Its a bloody cruel world out their GWB but fear not, January is not all that far away and even Nixon gets a nice enough write up on the ex President's web site.