The next two years will see the Federal government locked in a logjam of procedure and ideology as significant initiatives get hung up on the ego of President Bush. For all his politically expedient talk of brotherly love and non-partisan progress subsequent to the recent congressional Democratic switch, the man in the Oval Office remains a calamitous ego-maniac with a voluminous track-record of stubborn, ill-informed, ill-conceived and ill-executed policies – regardless of any political platitudes he might occasionally mumble to try and placate (or anesthetize) those with a more rational or practical world-view.

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