You wonder sometimes if Our Glorious Leader ever pays attention to what he says when he's off-script.
Bush Courts Black Voters (washingtonpost.com): President Bush traveled to the South on Thursday to court black voters and to emphasize his conviction -- disputed by Congress -- that the government should devote more federal money to religious groups that deliver social services. [...] The president also said his administration is continuing efforts to rewrite agency regulations to permit faith-based spending. Referring to an executive order he issued 13 months ago to make faith-based groups eligible for federal subsidies, Bush said: "It's not a dictatorship in Washington, but I tried to make it one in that instance. We are beginning to see some success in opening up federal coffers for faith-based programs."
The leader of allegedly the most powerful democracy in the world, when it comes to religion, apparently doesn't believe in democracy. Apparently, we should live in a presidential theocracy of some sort. (Oh, all right, even I know that's overstated. But still. That there was one brain-damaged statement he made. I'm surprised that the big-D Democrats didn't pick up and jump all over that statement. I guess they were too busy shredding each other in Iowa.)
Posted by iain at January 22, 2004 04:09 PM
