State Of The Strawman Preview

by digby

Good news. On Fox, “Stretch” Cameron just said the president is going to reject the approach of “some” that says we should surrender to terrorism.

He’s going to say:

“In a time of testing, we cannot find security by abandoning our commitments and retreating within our borders. If we were to leave these vicious attackers alone, they would not leave us alone. They would simply move the battlefield to our own shores.”

Boy that’s telling all those people who are anxious to “leave the vicious attackers alone.” All four of them.

I also understand that he is going to announce a bold new program to allow people to pay for their own health insurance so that employers can keep more of their money. (After all, it’s their profits!) I do hope that he is going to put the same people in charge of designing it that he put in charge of the prescription drug program (if there are any who aren’t working for Big Pharma now.) That’s worked out awfully well.

He’s going to say that we are all addicted to foreign oil, which is an excellent point. We should have weaned ourselves long ago. But he may not be the best evangelist for the cause. After all, his good friends in the energy industry have just overdosed on windfall profits and are lying face down in a pool of oily tax-payer subsidies. (But hey, it’s their profits!)

And then there is the expected soaring rhetoric:

“Abroad, our Nation is committed to an historic, long-term goal – we seek the end of tyranny in our world. The future security of America depends on it.”

And just as soon as we end tyranny in our world we will turn our attention to restoring the Bill of Rights to the Constitution.

No word on how the manned mission to Mars or the crusade against steroids are going. And one can assume that the bold plan to privatize social security has been a rousing success too. Strangely, nobody is talking about it.

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