Four more years

You have four more years, Mr. Bush. You need to make the most of them.

Here are my recommendations.

The War on Terror: Hammer down, and do it quickly. You have a week until the New Moon, when Israeli F-15E's will launch for the Iranian nuke facilities and flatten them. If you still have the shackles of "rules of engagement" on our G.I.'s in Iraq by then, a lot of them might get killed as the outraged mullahs call for even more Jihad. Oh, you might put the lads in South Korea on alert, too, since Kim Il Fool II might decide to jump off with the mullahs. I'd have some Buffs loaded to the max with cruise missiles and in the air in SWA when Israel launches, because they are going to need some help keeping Syria and maybe Egypt off their backs. They waited for your re-election, so you owe them the six-cover.

The Budget: You have to get the deficits under control. Hard to do during a war which might get suddenly more intense, but you might start by halting the wholesale cash giveaways such as SSI to drug addicts. You have a list of these excesses, use it to cut spending.

Judge appointments: Now that you have the Senate back, you need to find and cultivate five (D)onk Senators who disagree with their party's preventing you from making judicial appointments. When you have them on board, go break Kennedy's back and appoint the damn judges. You can start by telling your (D) allies that very good things will come their way if they break the unconscionable use of fillibuster on all appointments. In return, tell them that you aren't going after Roe v. Wade just yet, and prove it by making your judicial appointments conservative but not fundamentalist. When you show this moderation, you will be overjoyed at the fact that it produces about 3 SCOTUS retirements during your term.

Department of Defense: Invite Mr. Rumsfeld down to the ranch. You have a woodshed there, right? Take him to the woodshed and show him that it's not just for storing wood. He almost cost you this election with his radical re-do of our Armed Forces. He fired more quality generals with his shakeup than it would have taken to have won the damn war by now. That shit is over with or he's out the door. Send his brazen butt to Army War College and have him sit through all the lectures on Force Structure, and write essays on the subject.

The Environment: Continue your process of de-coupling environmental management from the liberal whackos that Clinton installed in the US Forest Service and elsewhere. If you have the new clout to pull it off, repeal the ESA and replace it with something that requires consideration of economic impact equal to environmental impact.

Energy: Let's get at all the known oil reserves that the US controls. Drill now, and get some refineries built to handle the new flow of crude. You know this bidnez, get 'er done. The economic reward of driving oil prices permanently below $40 will make it all worthwhile. While you're at it, how about some Federal bucks for the Nuke Power industry. Put a plant or two on Federal reservations, get them running, and soon that good result, of abundant electric power, will pay dividends.

Church - Government relations: Fuggeddabboudditt. There ain't no such animule, but the rightmost third of the GOP will always think there is. Put them down, and you might just see how the party grows. You can do this by '06, and when you re-establish Moderation as a GOP theme, you will put the last shovelful of dirt on the new grave of the (D)onks.

Comments

[Rescue Mike]

Alllllrighty then! Man, you speakin' my language. Only thing I would add is, how about a pay raise for our boys puttin it all on the line for America! The men and women in the Armed Forces make a pitiful paycheck for what they do. I'm not talkin make 'em rich, but a nice round 10% raise would bolster the Republicans numbers too!