We’re Off To See the Wizard
A little voice-over, please, to set the scene. President Bush asked Congress for $92 billion for his war and an accumulation of Katrina promises. They’ve been thinkin’ it over in the Seante, finger to the wind. $126 billion added thus far and still looking for a strong enough breeze to blow them through the election.
Congress will be off for the summer pretty soon , like school-children, and then . . . well, then the mid-term elections loom. Loom, as in bulk large, tower-over and brood. There's a regular Wicked witch of the West anger from the provinces, towering and hovering, as Senators Conrad Scarecrow and Trent Lion look to central-casting, hoping for some good lines to get them off-camera.
Montana’s Senator Conrad Burns, always good for a laugh, stuck an additional $4 bil on the already bloated hog-pile. He’s in a sweat to pacify a few Montana ranchers and get their attention away from what he and Jack Abramoff have been doing amongst the Indian tribes. Ranchers and Indians. John W…