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Yes, NWP, all too sadly true.

It was rather nice when the Republican party could provide some sort of check on democratic excess... a voter had some option.

These days it seems that both parties are in a race to accumulate power by trying to assemble a majority through telling people what they want to hear and engaging in an endless escalation of the war of promises. Democratic economic policy was generally designed to attempt massage the economy to minimize the frequency and effect of recessions. The republicans have gone them one better to try to continually stimulate the economy... sort of like athletes on steroids and hormones. And, as we all know, steroids and hormones do work... for a time. But, since our nation is always focused on achieving improved results for the next quarter... this sort of artificial stimulation is very popular. Or, more accurately perhaps, the lack of this stimulation is unpopular.

Over time, we have unashamedly become a "have your cake and eat it too" sort of society. A country where the president can lead us into war and tell the citizens to do their part by going shopping. And, more shockingly, such an admonition causes hardly even a ripple of concern. Tax cuts are proposed at every stage of the economic cycle with a complete disconnect from concern about deficits. As Cheney is supposed to have said "Deficits do not matter"