Now hear this! Politician keeps campaign promise!

Bush plans tax code overhaul. Gee, I think I heard this during the convention. The real question is whether it will get anywhere. Congress is built on such a scaffolding of corporate welfare that I doubt that anybody can really do much in simplifying the IRS Code if it would cost big business and rich people their favorite tax loopholes. Democrats get a lot of money from big business, especially when you include big labor and the special interest lobbies as just another type of business. P. J. O'Rourke had it right when he called Congress a Parliament of Whores. I think we have to accept that, and quit allowing politicians to shine us on with silly campaign finance reforms that don't really reduce the influence of big donors. Or has it been too long since the last campaign? The lucky ones were we in the "safe" states, because the big 527 organizations and national campaigns spent all their money in the "battleground" states. And Kerry still wound up with $22,000,000 in his accounts.

If Bush can pull this off for real, he deserves his own monument on the Mall in Washington, D. C.