No excuse

Now that Kerry is conceding the race (which should be occurring in just a little while), I hope it soon becomes obvious to everyone that Bush now has absolutely no excuse for not getting everything he wants done. Moreover, because there is no significant obstacle to him succeeding, save Senate filibusters, he has no excuse whatsoever for anything less than achieving everything he has promised he will.

We expect new jobs, a safe end to the war in Iraq, a world free of terrorist attacks, better education for our children. Will we get that, or just deficit spending, tax giveaways to the wealthy, activist conservative judges, wholesale violations of the principle of church-state separation, and corruption on a scale unseen even in the Nixon days?

I don't see much reason to hope for things to improve in the next few years. However, if there isn't a massive repudiation of our mistakes before the end of the decade, I'm going to have to give serious thought to living in a society that won't see fit to discriminate against me on the basis of my origins and religious principles.