RE: Let 'em Eat Sand

It seems a shame that Cal Thomas would have to waste time and ink explaining something that is so fundamentally obvious, but I guess you have to speak slowly and use small words if you're going to get people to turn off their MTV for a minute and pay attention.

This will call for strong leadership from President Bush and future presidents, regardless of party.

I'm hoping that Cal meant it will take principle and determination to help keep the invertebrates in Congress from blundering in following their customary knee-jerk and to generally keep government out of the way. Hopefully he's not thinking of some statist solution. Even more hopefully, he's not seriously thinking that anything resembling strong leadership is forthcoming from King Jorge.

I'm afraid Cal's is a small voice in the wilderness, if not a lone voice. If the rest of the MSM would get off their agenda for a moment and start using their awesome power to make this very point clear to Joe and Jane Sixpack, there might be some hope. Sadly, the scores of brainless lemmings in the journalism industry are too focused on demonizing oil companies and heaping adoration on whichever gutless moron in Congress happens to be chastising Exxon, Chevron, or Halliburton at the moment.