Ambition.
Let’s briefly consider what President Bush says he aims to do in the next four years:
- privatize Social Security
- end progressive income taxes
- end all federal inheritance taxes
- stop illegal immigration
- grant amnesty (and ultimately citizenship) to almost all illegal aliens currently in the US, with numbers estimated between 8 and 20 million
- prevent another 9/11–scale attack
- refrain from environmentalism and drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- embark on a manned mission to Mars
- win the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
- bring peace to the Middle East
- stop nuclear proliferation
- end all forms of tyranny around the world
- balance the budget
Does something smell a little fishy? Can you say the word overreach?
January 22nd, 2005 at 21:47
[size=14][/size]Usually when I do a project i pile a buch of stuff into it. This is not to over reach. Its more to not under reach. The comment sounds like it comes from someone who has no idea on how to succeed. Most great people task this way. Did you ever Think about President Clinton’s plate? He quite posssibley has been the most productive of all are leaders doing this. You need to look before you leap……but at least your trying.
January 26th, 2005 at 17:20
I should have added the goals of Bush’s conservative judiciary appointments and tort reform.
Ambition is not a virtue. Ambition is good in moderate amounts, and bad in overly large amounts.
Even when we take away “end tyranny” Bush’s list is too much for four years.