Believing is not enough

During a subcommittee meeting Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan acknowledged last week that he'd been wrong to expect tax cuts to produce budget surpluses. "It turns out that we were all wrong," he told the Senate Special Committee on Aging. "An almost universal expectation amongst experts" that cutting taxes for the wealthy would generate more government revenue. "Just for the record, we were not all wrong, but many people were wrong," Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., responded. Clinton had voted against the tax cuts. When Bush is wrong he likes to say everybody was wrong, not just him. From WMD in Iraq to tax cuts for the wealthiest. But he would still have taken us down the same road, because he "believes". It is the faith-based presidency. Nathaniel Frank sums up the Bush logic: The logic that Team Bush has used to justify its decisions and dodge responsibility for their consequences is deeply troubling. It goes essentially like this: I believed something and I acted on it. Turns out I was wrong to believe it. But because I truly believed it, it was right to act on it, notwithstanding the damage it caused. They were wrong in Iraq they were wrong on economics, now his faith is in privatizing Social Security. It is time to demand accountability for past mistakes to prevent any more future damage.