In fact that's all I'm going to do now is tell people on this blog to go read Kevin Drum, daily. Too busy to do any original thinking lately at least politically.... If I do blog it's just going to be regurgitated from some other blog I've been checking out. Hey at least I'm honest!
One thing I'd really wanted to link to was a Paul Krugman article from a couple of weeks ago that was all about how we must always keep in mind that when the Bush White House is making a big circus out of something like Social Security, half of what they're doing is creating a smoke screen for a thousand other things that they are doing below the radar.
Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana put it slightly differently last week when he was non-plussed by Bush's attempt to sell Social Security privatization at a meeting of the US Governors in the White House:
But Schweitzer compared Bush's promotion of Social Security changes to a magician with a hat in his right hand that he is waving around with "wide gestures" to distract his audience.
"Today we're talking about Social Security, something that might happen 20, 30, 40 years from now," Schweitzer said. "But guess what's really happening, over in the left hand? We're cutting Medicaid. We're cutting programs in the heartland."
Everything I read about Governor Schweitzer makes me think (as I can tell someone somewhere wants me to think) that this man is the man to watch for a Presdential bid sooner rather than later. Could he be the next Clinton?