The Expansionist

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Rate Hike Mishandled. I was in the post office yesterday. I had to mail a letter and had not yet secured any 2-cent stamps to update the booklet of stamps I carry in my wallet. As I waited on a very long line, the clerk announced that they had no more 2-cent stamps! The woman in front of me was dismayed: "This is the second post office I've been to today [that didn't have two-cent stamps]." Last nite, Jimmy Kimmel Live did a comedic bit about the postal rate hike that showed that a post office in the Los Angeles area — the other side of the continent — also ran out of 2-cent stamps. What is going on?
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The United States Postal Service is a largely independent agency rather than an integral part of government now, but surely the Federal Government should be able to make it do its job. The Bush Administration is increasingly looking like The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, and this hugely mishandled postal rate hike joins a growing list of aggravations that might move voters to oust enuf Republicans in November to cause Dubya real problems in the last two years of his term.
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Fortunately, Dubya can't run again (thanks to a Constitutional term limit), but even if he did, the way things are looking now, the Democrats would have to do something really stupid, like nominating a woman, to lose in 2008. I wouldn't put it past them.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,222. Yup, that's all 2's: 2,222, as in "This war is too, too, too, too stupid.")

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 4:01 PM

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