DUH's CAPITAL

(Finally have internet at home. It's not particularly fast, but I'll try to post at all hours of the night in the coming days and weeks. Has everyone been having a morally valuable day? Good.)

Bush will govern towards the center... of Alabama:

"I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it," Bush told a news conference a day after Democrat John Kerry conceded the election to the president and the two men talked about the need for unity.

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Appearing confident if not a bit tired from the grueling campaign and all-night anguish over the fate of Ohio, Bush said he would seek greater bipartisanship with members of the Democratic opposition in the U.S. Congress after his first term was marred by partisan battles.

But he signaled some limits as to how far he would go, saying he would reach out to "everyone who shares our goals." Besides winning re-election in Tuesday's election, Bush saw Republican majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives grow.

The top goals he outlined were reforming Social Security And the tax code, two items in which his preferred outcome clashes sharply with that of Democrats.

Bush has imported his black/white foreign policy doctrine -- "you're either with us or you're with the terrorists -- and he's applying it to domestic politics.

Of course, the Gingrich Congress took residual Cold War paranoia and refocused it on Clinton's cock, so this doesn't come as a surprise.

Compared to 2000, a 51-48 win will probably be interpreted by Bush as a Charlemagne-esque divine mandate.

From that conference,



I can't find a still photo of it, but CNN's video angle once again turned the Presidential seal into a Jesus-halo around Bush's head.

A highly-knowledgeable source on Christianity, whom I highly respect, mentions that there were probably more abortions per capita in Roman-occupied Judea than in America now. And Jesus never said a thing about them. Anyway.

In the meantime, I'm pretty sure I endorse this.