Very disturbing article that people seem to be talking about: Without a Doubt. I’d suggest you take a read, before the free phase expires. Or, if it does expire, you can read the story here.

“I’m going to come out strong after my swearing in,” Bush said, “with fundamental tax reform, tort reform, privatizing of Social Security.” The victories he expects in November, he said, will give us “two years, at least, until the next midterm. We have to move quickly, because after that I’ll be quacking like a duck.”

Joseph Gildenhorn, a top contributor who attended the luncheon and has been invited to visit Bush at his ranch, said later: “I’ve never seen the president so ebullient. He was so confident. He feels so strongly he will win.” Yet one part of Bush’s 60-odd-minute free-form riff gave Gildenhorn — a board member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and a former ambassador to Switzerland — a moment’s pause. The president, listing priorities for his second term, placed near the top of his agenda the expansion of federal support for faith-based institutions. The president talked at length about giving the initiative the full measure of his devotion and said that questions about separation of church and state were not an issue.

Not that anyone would be surprise by any of this. But it does become more and more real as the day approaches. No wonder so many think the Xian Republic of the United States is within reach.