And Now For the Good News
As the libs gloat and revel over the travails of Rush Limbaugh, their books bashing Bush take over the bestseller lists, their media hails Democratic presidential wannabes as saintly saviors of America and subjects us to a daily deluge of disaster in Iraq, it’s time for the good news.
For the fact is, that there’s so much good news it’s hard to know where to start. So let’s begin with what seemed like an outrageous prediction I made last June 2: that by the end of October, the Dow would be at 10,000. It’s been a nervous bumpy ride since then, but we’re two weeks out now and closing in.
With so many millions of investors traumatized by the dot-bomb meltdown, nervous nellyism still makes them doubt the recovery is for real. Plus it’s the lib media’s mission to do to GW in 04 what it did to GHW in 92: convince folks there’s no recovery at all. I don’t know when it will finally dawn on the investor class that the media is conning them, and that just about every stat on the economy is improving. Maybe not within the next two weeks, but soon enough. We’re not too far off from the day when 10,000 will be a floor for the Dow, not a barrier.
Then the Dem Dwarves will have to find something other than the economy to lie and whine about. Like Iraq.
The good news about Iraq is that the good news is finally getting out. This week the Bushies, led by their big guns like Condi and Cheney and GW himself, went on the rhetorical offensive and condemned the lib media’s 24/7 negativity on Iraq. Supporting their optimism, supporting the US overthrow of Saddam, is none other than the grandson of Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, Hussein Khomeini. Now living in Najaf, Iraq, Hussein Khomeini condemned the regime founded by his grandfather as “the world’s worst dictatorship,” the best cure for which would its removal by the US military “just like in Iraq.”
The good news in Iran is the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Shirin Ebadi, a woman judge and rights activist who gives a world-wide voice to the millions of Iranians who despise their mullah rulers. It will be intensely interesting to see the gigantic rallies to welcome her return to Iran next month, and what happens when she tells them to fight for freedom and democracy.
Of course, the most fabulous news of all in the Middle East is the reports that Yasser Arafat is dying. Let’s hope they are true.
Want more good news? This week, President Bush in a Rose Garden ceremony, publicly announced his intention to rid Cuba of Fidel Castro once and for all. The specifics weren’t spelled out — no Bay of Pigs II is planned — but simply stating the intention is the best thing any American president has said about Castro in modern memory.
And how about Vladimir Putin of Russia driving a stake through the heart of the Kyoto Treaty, demolishing the argument for global warming? The attempt by the Eco-Fascists to destroy the US economy is now doomed. We owe Pooty-Poot on this one.
We owe Tom DeLay for engineering victory in Texas’ Redistricting War, which all but guarantees continued GOP control in the House next November.
And we owe my old buddy, Shawn Steel, for engineering the California Recall. Shawn, as Chairman of the California Republican party, came up with the idea last January, talked Darryl Issa into putting up the cash, and provided the organizational manpower to get over a million signatures on the recall petition. I’ve known Shawn for 37 years now, since we were in Youth For Reagan back in Reagan’s original gubernatorial campaign in 1966. Congratulations, Shawn!
As we discussed last week, Arnold terminates the Dems chances to defeat GW in 2004, and Hillary’s chances in 2008 (he’ll help Rudy G. win her NY Senate seat in 2006).
So — feeling better now? Then spread the good dews. It’s time all your friends felt good about what’s happening, just like you.