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Bush Polls Down, Tax Revenue and Economy UP

Call it 'disconnect'.  Two headlines from today's dailies.  President Bush's approval ratings are in the tank.. at 31%.  Thirty-nine percent say the Operation in Iraq was a bad idea. 

But wait, on the same day, the Stock Market is ready to burst to record highs, tax revenues are exploding at the Federal, State and Local levels.  Tax revenues exploding while tax rates are down. 

From the WSJ: "The latest evidence is Treasury's monthly budget report for May that tax receipts were up by $137 billion, or a remarkable 11.2%, for the first seven months of Fiscal 2006 through April. That's more than triple the inflation rate. And it comes on top of the $274 billion, or 14.6%, increase in federal revenues for all of Fiscal 2005, which ended last September 30.Reduced tax rates due to President Bush's key campaign early in his adminstration to lower taxes and keep his promise to the voters."

And in Iraq, they have a strong consensus Prime Minister, the country is rebuilding, and the insurgents seem to be accepting a stalemate at best.

I call it Disconnect..

Military C.I.A. Director

If you're at war -- and we are at war --  we'd be wise to have a military man head the Central Intelligence Agency. Thus,  President Bush’s selection of Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to serve as CIA director makes sense. 

Of course, that's if you're sane.  Because if you're insane, you wouldn't recognize imminent danger and you defend yourself.  Consider: Bin Laden's working feverishly to acquire dirty nuclear weapons (hey, probably already on U.S. soil).  Add, the Iranian President who believes the world's coming to end and he may have to just help push up the schedule.  Now Add, industrial espionage (as in 'spying'), North Korea's insane leader with nukes, Latin America's neo-socialism,  Russia with its hundreds of ballastic missles still pointed at the U.S. (manned by who knows who)..fully  armed drug cartels,  and the list goes on.  Better to have a military man at the C.I.A. than a political hack who's more concerned with a politically cleansed Agency.. unless you're completely out of your mind  (like too on the Left.)

Black Owned Businesses Growing..Maybe GOP, too

Good News, indeed.  A Census Bureau report, "Survey of Business Owners: Black-Owned Firms: 2002," says that between 1997 and 2002, the number of black-owned businesses in the United States rose 45 percent to 1.2 million, while the combined revenue increased 25 percent to $88.8 billion.

This is good news for Republicans, bad news for the Democrat Party. 

Bush Alone..Not Quite

So now even the ballsy Newt Gingrich (read, "Contract on America" circa 1994)  has called for a pullout from Iraq:

"VERMILLION, S.D. - Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the House, told students and faculty at the University of South Dakota Monday that the United States should pull out of Iraq and leave a small force there, just as it did post-war in Korea and Germany."

That's what happens when a politician loses contact with the Nation's Capitol.  The same day Gingrich held up the white flag,  a Washington Post-ABC poll showed Bush disapproval rating at 60%.   When it rains, it really rains.

The President should take heart, however.

California's Latin American Socialism

The Recent immigration demonstrations in Los Angeles  graphically show how California mirrors Latin America politics. For the last ten years, California Democrats have controlled the political agenda in the Golden State.  In that time they have implemented higher taxes and regulations on businesses and individuals to finance redistribution of wealth;  their own words.    The pictures taken from demonstrations across the nation could have been taken in Caracas.  The picture above is from Los Angeles, an ominous sign..

So You Want an Impeachment

So, the Democrats want (some democrats) to start an impeachment.  Fortunately, IF the Dems take the House in November and proceed, the impeachment hearings will be more uplifiting than the last one.

Then, with the previous president, the months of hearings and news coverage were about sex and impropriety.  This time, if it occurs, it will be serious stuff.  We'll be talking about terrorism, protecting the country, tracking down the bad guys.  Like the Dubai hearings, it would elevate the Nation's interest on a real threat... not sex.  So, bring it on.