Unless my memory has been totally decimated by space aliens or something, I seem to remember that a couple of the Washington Press Corps Kool Kidz, like Ceci Connally, Cokie Roberts and Eleanor Clift were among those who spent a good part of the 2000 election assisting the Chimp-for-President campaign by extending and even orginating some of the memes that made the Gore Campaign more difficult. Now it seems that one of the Kool Kidz, Eleanor Clift may be realizng that perhaps Americans bought a "pig in a poke" to use an old Southern term...and she's unhappy about it. Gee, Ellie were you sleeping while the 2000 Employ Chimpy-cause-no-one-else-will campaign was happening?

Here’s a suggestion: what if Bush had suspended the cut on the estate tax, calling on both workers and the wealthy to kick in their share? That would be a bit more credible. With the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reporting this week that the federal budget deficit is approaching a record $500 billion, lawmakers are furious about the way the administration has played them for fools when it comes to paying for Iraq. “The Iraqis ask, ‘Why can’t you turn on the lights?’ We have a George C. Marshall plan with a Grover Norquist budget,” says a Senate Republican.
        Norquist is known as “Mr. Tax Cut.” He’s president of Americans for Tax Reform and the grinch who steers the GOP’s antitax movement. Cutting taxes is the holy grail for the Republican right, but draining the treasury runs counter to national security. There isn’t enough money to properly fund homeland security or pick up the pace of reconstruction in Iraq, though the administration will be back for a war “supplemental” when Congress returns next week. That’s Washington-speak for billing the taxpayers, who pay for the war with reduced government services at home.
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The main mission of American troops now is self-protection. They aren’t handing out candy to children or joining in impromptu soccer games. They are hunkered down hoping only to survive. “You can walk around the streets in central Baghdad and not see a single serviceman,” says the former ambassador. “We don’t look like we’re occupying anything.”
        The good news for Bush is that Democrats believe that Iraq requires more money, so Bush will get additional funds. The bad news is that the added cost aggravates the fiscal situation. Still, military spending is pump-priming the economy, and that will help him in getting reelected.

Ms. Clift is engaging in a very interesting thing here, behaving as if she had no involvement in the selection of the moron leading the 1600 Crew, and thus the country down a dark and dangerous and underfunded path to ruin. It's sad to see that the 1600 Crew cares more about the opinions of Grovel Nosetwist than the American People and the conquered Iraqi populace, sad, but not surprising.