[kcar]

My eared is cynically trained when a politiican talks about spending hundreds of billions of dollars. Boondoggles aplenty, some for you, some for me. Like the Highway Bill.

You can't solve poverty via government. It's a fool's errand.

[varina davis]

The Prez is no fool. He is wise AND compassionate. But his proposals are proposals that must be passed by Congress.

It is likely Congress as a whole will only consider such sweeping reform and spending if the military is cut back in Iraq, etc.

This gives the administration an opportunity to cut back and save face since the humanitarian effort must proceed. When the big gov and mercy programs fail -- as some of them surely will --- the Dems will have both a messy Iraq situation AND a stagnant U.S. gulf recovery on their backs in 2008