Great article by Stan Sinberg:
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Yes, with less than a year to go until the next presidential election, we're at that point where we GWB - bashers actually have to root for bad news. Welcome to the Bizarro World of Presidential Politics: where the worse things get, the brighter our prospects become.
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That's why it would be just our rotten luck that, after a prolonged slump, the economy will improve enough for a few ill-timed months
- with a higher growth rate and increased employment (even though Bush will still be the first president since Herbert Hoover to preside over a net loss of jobs in his first term) - to convince voters that W. has righted the ship enough to warrant casting another ballot for him - at which point the economy will prompty go back into the crapper again. And then we'll have four more miserable years of unremitting Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Condoleeza, and the rest of the wacko right-wing brigade.
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