[dirtboy]

The next few weeks -- that will show the thing, I think, no words more to muster against what will be obvious to all.

And this is the time to air out such issues - since we're not going to have a GOP presidential primary race this year, Bush needs to listen to the various factions in the party and reconcile their concerns, instead of just running further leftward now in pursuit of swing voters who won't remember what he did now when they vote in November 2004.

[bvw]

I can't see how the bond market will survive through the next few weeks. Circumstances will become chaotic for a while. This jobs argument will piffle away, supplanted by more dire happenings. jmho.