'Tis the time to look good...

Boy! The House is a foxy bunch of rascals! We need pension financing reform and also a number of tax breaks for school tuition and R&D research. However, we do not need any cuts in estate taxes - another one of those "rich get richer" scams.

The House knows this so they bundled the estate tax rollback into a bill along with the ‘good' tax breaks AND even an increase in minimum wage - figuring that the bill just might pass. The problem is that the Senate which has been consistently against the estate tax rollback just might dump the whole package - the baby with the garbage.

So the Senate bosses are considering making certain that the estate tax rollback gets passed separately by the full Senate before they even introduce the very important pension bill.

This sounds like typical Republican manipulation. Can't say that they aren't gamblers! They just may not pass anything before the election - which puts mud on their faces and is fine with me!

I think the Democrats need all of the help they can get so it angers me that the Republicans wait until the last minute to pass any decent legislation which is good for the American people. They know how little the average voter pays attention to what's going on until it is time to vote. Unfortunately, the voter is not part of the Republican constituency - except at election time!

They also know that all it takes are a few words about abortion, gays, illegals or ‘Democracy building' throughout the world to totally distract a huge block of voters and convince them to vote Republican.

As Putin told Bush when the president chided him about Russian democracy and civil liberties, that he most certainly didn't want the kind of democracy which Bush is going to get in Iraq - and apparently, neither does China, our creditor**!

**Reminds me of the silent movies when the damsel in distress begs the snarling man in black with the long mustache to take her body rather than foreclose on the mortgage and throw her family out on the street. Unfortunately, I don't see Dudly Doright with his white hat and sturdy chin coming to our rescue!