Over the past 7 years, I have been told by many that the Democratic stance on social policy was that of a "feel good" policy. You know, welfare is supposed to make me feel good for giving. FEMA is supposed to make me feel good about the risks we face today and assure me that we will be okay tomorrow if a natual/man-made crisis occurs. And raising taxes on the wealthy is supposed to be a revenge-like feel good policy, the whole schadenfreude thing.
But there are some feelings that are sacred, as sacred as the Hindu cow, and those feelings are based on finances. We must walk on cracked windows in terms of the finacial world. The smallest thing could upset our market, cause hundreds of billionairs to loose money and lessen the chances that we will hopefully be trickled on by these billionaires. But there is hope, cause as we have seen over the past 6 months or longer, these billionaires are terribly defensive when it comes to their emotions. They absolutely need the "feel good" policies that the Democrates try desperately to provide to those who make less than $1 million a year, and their savior has finally come. Guess who below.
Yes, it is Bush. He is the one they have been foretelling about since Ayn Rand declared that the individual is the be all, end all. Bush has leaped over Ray-gun's "house on a hill" philosphy, mainly because that house could be anyone's house, although it never seemed to work out that way, just not enough trickling I guess. His approach to stem the fears of those in the know, or those in the oil buisness, leaps over the "the one with the most toys wins" t-shirt and floats off into the stratosphere. He truly knows the fears of his buddies, and he is damned determined to do something about it. See, this is why he is non-chalant when he talks about drilling in ANWAR and off the coasts of the Eastern seaboard. He knows that drilling will do nothing in the immediate future, that future being within the next 5 yrs or so. But it does not matter, because it is the emotions that Bush is worried about, and he knows that drilling will help the American pysche.
"I readily concede that (expanded offshore drilling) it's not going to produce a barrel of oil tomorrow, but it is going to change the psychology that, you know, demand will constantly outstrip supply," the president said.
See, it is the pysche that needs mending, not the economy nor our tax structure. Whiners all of us. So the next time you pay $48 for 12 gallons of gas in your SUV that you recieved tax breaks on in 2004, remember that the cost is nothing more than psychological. And as soon as we start tearing up the continental shelf in our mad pursuit of dead, liqui-fied dinasours, the sooner those fears will go away. This is much better than that house on the hill, this is prozac-like induced feelings. And I will take that over the enviroment any day of the week.