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Another fine essay, John! Thanks for articulating what many of us had felt in our gut, but just couldn't express it properly.

This may be a bad analogy, but there is a similarity between Bush and Reagan. Reagan did the Democrats in a budgetary fashion: by not holding the Demos feet to the fire when they didn't give him the agreed upon 2-3 dollars in spending cuts for each dollar in tax cuts, the deficits ballooned. Those deficits slowed the growth in government spending, and gave our economy time to catch up, leading to the surplusses of the late 90's.

Bush is doing in the Democrats legislatively: even though he signed CFR quietly, politically it takes the issue off the radar screen. Everybody knows that the real battle over CFR is in the courts. Sorry to all of you hardcore constitutionalists, but CFR isn't even a blip on my radar screen. As a tax CPA, I've learned that virtually every law has loopholes as big as Mack trucks written into them, for the benefit of the well-connected.

And is CFR going to reduce the percentage of incumbents getting re-elected? Don't make me laugh.

Thanks to our President, my boss will be able to contribute $40,000 to her SEP next year, instead of $25,500 this year. Yes, she makes a lot of money, but boy does she pay a lot of taxes. She also has about 15 people who work for her in various capacities. I guess you could call me a die-hard supporter of trickle down economics.

So, while there a plenty of folks out there wailing about CFR, I'll focus my energies on my family and God, and keeping my boss (and my small circle of clients) happy with my work.

Call it what you will, but there is a definite connection to my conversion to Catholicism 4 years ago and the wonderful gifts my family and I have received in that same period. Sure we've struggled, but doesn't everybody?

That's why I just can't get fired up over CFR. However, the NORTHEAST DAIRY COMPACT is a different matter altogether! If Bush lets Judas Jeffords get away with that, I'll never vote for Bush ever again!!!!!!

Just kidding...Bush may need to use that arrow in his quiver for something down the road (a Supreme Court appointment?). I'll let Dubya do his job, because I've got enough to handle in my own small world.