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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Monday, April 03, 2006

Shake up?

All this talk about replacing a few guys in the Bush administration with other guys that have been in the Bush administration for years doesn't sound like much of a shake up to me. It sounds like rewarding mediocrity to me.

This talk of change is part of a more orchestrated plea by Republicans to get Bush to tout the "strong economy" that they see.

I'm not sure how that's going to work. Either people feel good about the economy or they don't. You can't tell someone that they are doing better than they are, and as long as their are worries about job loses and health care costs, no one's going to feel very safe about their future. And instead of focusing on those issues and turning Americans to their side, the GOP has made it harder for the average man to declare bankruptcy in case of medical disasters, denied them protections against the credit card industry, and are now focused on illegal immigration as opposed to health care solutions.

It's enough to make one think that Republicans don't really care about the working man.