A threat on the home front?

If we're serious about confronting threats to our way of life, we don't have to hunt them in the caves of Afghanistan. We can find a serious threat in the White House as the Bush administration charts its fiscal policy. Under Bush, surpluses have completely vanished. Granted, he had help from a bad economy. But spending has increased more rapidly than under any President since Lyndon Johnson, and Bush refuses to pay for it. I've seen that story before, in Argentina. Compared with Bush, John Kerry and most Democratic candidates are paragons of responsibility--but only compared with Bush. The reality is that promises by Democrats like Kerry to start new health care programs, keep some tax cuts, and restore black ink are nonsense. But it's less non-sense to say 2 + 2 = 5 (Kerry) than 2 + 2 = 22 (Bush). (2/4/04)