how will they screw the country? Let us count the ways.

[ulysses]

The right wing has become masterful at keeping us off-balance by keeping up assaults on a variety of fronts, too many to effectively counter them all. I think it's incumbent on us to anticipate a few of these and at least consider trying to organize some kind of opposition, especially with * promising to "spend his political capital".

Roe v. Wade is clearly in danger.
Actually, we're probably going to see the theocracy aborning being more and more obvious about it overall. Bush owes the fundies big-time, and Roe will likely be first up. After that, I see no reason why they wouldn't return to the homophobia well, maybe to explicitly restrict adoptions by gay couples. Some of these fuckwits are already talking about public stonings, so Bush gets to seem moderate by comparison.

A renewed assault on all things public.
I think we can expect to see full-scale pushes for both school vouchers and the privatization of Social Security soon. Beyond that, who knows? The nation took to the '96 restrictions on welfare with nary a whimper, so why not simply end the program entirely? The poor will all be toting guns in Iraq anyway.

Any other thoughts? Bear in mind that these are battles that we'll have to fight, at least in part, outside the party structure. If there was ever a time we needed to unite our various "interest groups", now is it.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Social security will be the ruse to distract

while he passes his energy policy

[Midnight Rambler]

2. Freedom of Information Act will be gone

Actually, I'm surprised they haven't tried to do this already

[rucky]

3. now they just ignore FOIA

and if you don't like it, please feel free to complain to the government.