| Tuesday, February 18, 2003 |
20:14 - ...And then he woke up
http://coldfury.com/archives/000974.php#000974
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Mike at Cold Fury has done what a number of bloggers, frustrated with a tight-lipped President and and inscrutable but generally encouragingly well-aimed Administration, have apparently been doing lately: he's constructed the Presidential Speech We'll Never Hear.
There's no way to excerpt it properly, so I won't; I just recommend a nice lingering look at it. Sure, it's not realistic to expect we'll ever hear it. But I hope someone's sent a copy or three to president@whitehouse.gov. If Lileks' Bleat gets read on the Senate floor (and presumably not as part of a filibuster), how much else that goes on in the blogosphere crosses the desks of the highest-ups in the government?
I'll say this, though: the speech amounts to a pledge by the President to slash away all the cruft that currently prevents the US Government from fulfilling its founding principles and obstructs us from having the nation the Framers envisioned. Worded the way it is, it's the kind of penetratingly frank, implacable, audacious speech that a tyrannical dictator might make upon seizing power and declaring an empire... except that the speech is a pledge by the President to reduce his own power. So I just have to wonder how the hell the banner-waving public would react to it?
It's fun to dream.
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