We might as well get the bad news out of the way first: we are barreling down a potholed highway at twice the speed limit in a rusty old bus without any brakes. In place of a windshield, we’re relying, for navigational purposes, on a high-resolution screen that’s showing us something with more resemblance to Gong Show reruns than whatever it is that’s actually in front of us—which we suspect may be a cliff. And that’s just a metaphor. The reality is no improvement. We’re…Who Can’t Handle the Truth?
The month before making that famous descent on his own personal gilded escalator, to bask in the adulation of a hired crowd while excoriating those less fortunate than himself, a certain overweight draft dodger with implausible hair proclaimed on Twitter, “I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.” Yesterday, presuming things proceed as planned, his administrator of the…While Everyone’s Distracted Elsewhere…
