Clear and Present Dangers-Interesting read from the New York Times. Hopefully, I’ll have more free time to read, now that I’m only working part time.

No longer does he see Republican government as a source of stability and order. Instead, he presents a nightmarish vision of ideological extremism, catastrophic fiscal irresponsibility, rampant greed and dangerous shortsightedness.

…he identifies three broad and related trends -none of them new to the Bush years but all of them, he believes, exacerbated by this administration’s policies -that together threaten the future of the United States and the world. One is the role of oil in defining and, as Phillips sees it, distorting American foreign and domestic policy. The second is the ominous intrusion of radical Christianity into politics and government. And the third is the astonishing levels of debt – current and prospective – that both the government and the American people have been heedlessly accumulating.