the real tragedy of the bush years is if they had put all that deficit money inot alternative energyn they would energy independent by now--or very soon.

however in the grey back rooms i think the theorists of the republicans are planning on bankruptcy as a weapon against the people who own american debt instruments. can you say china. of course these ideologs are playing dice with our lives. they had to know that the debt they were running up is crippling in conventional terms. spain defaulted with its debt twice. both times they were happy to destroy backers who they had to use but felt were against their strategy for a ubited europe.

this kind of geo politics id madness

i love that quote that facts have a very liberal bias