Has Bush Treed Himself?

Since the webmail I have to use for blogging via e-mail tends to
insert line breaks in inconvenient places, I can't really use
it to post anything that requires links to any but the tiniest
URLs (no, I can't access TinyURL either), and I'm leery of
even attempting to use block quote tags. Consequently, I can
pretty much only use the blog-by-mail to post random musings
that don't reference any specific article or blog post.

Today's random musing regards Bush's Social Security quagmire.
Of course, the most obvious question to ask is, If the polls
on Social Security privatization are so bad and getting worse,
why can't Bush just back off?

I think I have an answer to that, and it just tickles me pinko.
As we all know, one of Bush's signature traits is to Never
Admit Error, the corollary of which is the We-Have-Always-Been-
At-War-With-East-Asia Doctrine. Whenever this administration
has flip-flopped on a policy, they have always insisted that
the new position is the one that Bush has held all along, and
the flip-flop is somehow merely a refinement or restatement of
that position. Or else they just release it on Friday afternoon
and hope no-one notices. To do otherwise would be to admit that
their original position was a mistake.

Now this is the beauty part: Ask yourself, HOW? After 60 days
of barnstorming all over the country to pitch the virtues of
Social Security privatization, HOW is the White House going to
pretend that Bush has been in favor of the Social Security status
quo all along? Or slip a radical policy reversal under the radar
in such a way that no-one notices? My bet is that they'll do it
via solvency and "saving Social Security", and explain that the
president's number one priority has always been to protect SS's
finances, and he has always kept an open and pragmatic mind, blah
blah blah. Some people will actually even buy it. But for most
people, I think this is going to be far, far worse than
Hillarycare, which never threatened to take money away from
anyone's retirement. The media can only do so much - or so
little, as the case may be.

You know, if you use enough rope, the head will just pop right off.

Someone get this man some more rope, please.