Even when it is besieged and sweating bullets, the Bush administration never misses the chance to slavishly serve its corporate masters. Scandal and dishonor are a convenient distraction from their true calling of advancing the interests of corporate America over those of the American people. And when they are disingenuously peddling an appearance of concern for the people, like a child molester seducing his next victim, those are the times for us to be most wary.
Since Katrina, the Bush administration discovered poverty, and mouthed many pious words, which somehow led to billion dollar no-bid contracts for Halliburton and Bechtel, who seem to be "succeeding" on our Gulf Coast recovery about as effectively as they have in Iraq's reconstruction. Now with the media bleating about the bird flu that's bearing down on us, creating a full Code Red panic, of course it is time to dispense another round of goodies to Republican contributers under the guise of actually doing something that might help ordinary Americans.