What dastardly deeds have they been up to while promoting their “err on the side of life” campaign? Have they leveled another city in Iraq , killing thousands of women and children in the process? Did they step up torture techniques and practices; maybe even getting rid of all the prisoners in Guantanamo? Did they send Israel into Iran to nuke that menace for us? Any of those tricks should have been noticed by someone.

It could not have been just to give Karl Rove time to finish that ridiculous ad about George “stay the course” Bush making changes to Social Security to avoid the fictional iceberg that everyone should know by now is nothing more than seven point six million ice cubes floating on the surface somewhere in the fog of the future.

Bush has a strong personal compass that isn't swayed by polls. He's going to plunge forward with whatever plan for personal accounts he feels is best.

Maybe the "side of life" campaign was just a trial balloon of compassion in the steps towards establishing the Bush dynasty. After all, both George and Jeb Bush are in the last years of their tenure. If so, it failed miserably and succeeded only in dividing public opinion on moral issues.

But that doesn’t mean the little dictator will give up his plans to return to the British ways and become King of the New World Odor. Clinton had that dream too until he screwed it up royally. Now his hopes are pinned on his ambitious wife and a HillBillary return to the White House.

Can you believe that we impeached a president for lying about his sexual dalliances while we do nothing to a president who lied us into a senseless invasion? So much for the millennium bridges into the 21st century and born again moral values.

The inevitable draft wasn’t enacted while everyone’s attention was elsewhere. No, that would take a really dramatic justification, something new and at least the equivalent of the old “weapons of mass destruction” falsehoods that brought us the preemptive Iraq invasion and quagmire. It takes time to build that sort of story and stir up that much fear and hate.

Leveling cities in Iraq is part of the “winning hearts and minds” campaign and preparing that hapless nation for democracy. So that couldn’t have had anything to do with it.

When it got down to voting, the Iraqis were actually permitted to vote on the weekend even though they’ve got a sixty percent unemployment rate thanks to Halliburton and other American contractors rebuilding the nation at our expense while providing the Iraqis with little choice to put food on the table other than joining the police force.

And the Iraqis did fill out and count votes on paper ballots in a "transparent" election, probably because there still isn’t electricity in most of the country after two years of our helping rebuild what we tore down. How long did it take to restore electricity in Florida after four hurricanes? That should tell you something.

Neither was it the fact that here at home George W. Bush is adding future taxes at the rate of $175 a week per household by running up the national debt more than $3 billion a day 24/7 – all while he runs around the country talking to himself in salted and staged audiences about saving.

He hopes the media will pick the salient points from this echo chamber and show him promising to “save” Social Security and offering personal savings accounts for younger American workers who, if they have any sense at all, already have more savings than the Bush administration seems to have.

Everyone needs to save just to pay their portion of the national debt, thanks to Bush and his cronies.

So what was the reason for this latest hypocritical venture into erring on the side of life? Why did Congress meet on the weekend? Why did Bush sign legislation in the middle of the night? Was it all just to see how far they could push the constitutional envelope? Since when has that ever bothered them?

None of this will solve our broken borders, out-sourcing of jobs and industry, the falling value of the dollar worldwide, the huge deficits we’re running, or the balance of trade that’s completely out of whack. Nor will it do anything to stop the wholesale rip-off of hundreds of billions in payroll taxes the government spends wherever it pleases or the more than $3.2 trillion involved in fraudulent trust funds.

Before you start thinking that our government has simply gone berserk, think about how this latest distraction has helped avoid the nation’s real problems for awhile.