What Digby Said

MANIFESTO

Anent the news that the US is spending $12 billion a month on the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations:

Americans ... have a right to be appalled that we are throwing this gigantic sum of money into that sinkhole ... even as we see Americans dying from .... all kinds of neglected infrastructure, bad health care, environmental degradation, tainted food supply, natural disasters and a host of other ills that only the government can deal with—and isn't. Now [the Bushies] are about to start with their tired mantra of "tax and spend," and insist on cutting even more necessary programs after they've run up a trillion dollar debt for an unnecessary war and enriched their defense contractor owners beyond their wildest dreams.

As Chill says, the idiocies of the Bushies are becoming enervating, leading one to a feeling of hopelessness—or worse.