Politics: Updating

David Broder, who wrote the piece I discussed below also wrote an editorial on the screw-job being handed to the AmeriCorps. Broder never takes the facts behind the Bush administration efforts to their logical conclusion: that Bush's talk on volunteerism and service is nothing more than talk. Broder instead sees this op-ed as an opportunity to call for action, from Bush, to take care of AmeriCorps and the other service/volunteer initiatives. I'll give you a hint, Dave. Bush is lying, and he won't be doing anything to help these programs go anywhere but down. The right-wing regards them as Clinton-era "government-funded volunteerism," as is rightly pointed out in Broder's piece. The relentless talk on the stump by Bush about how much he loves AmeriCorps is standard-issue lying to get re-elected. This president is amazingly skilled at it, and more calling him on it would be a huge boon.