HIS FIRST MOVE

Not too encouraging:

The Bush administration announced Wednesday that it will run out of maneuvering room to manage the government’s massive borrowing needs in two weeks, putting more pressure on Congress to raise the debt ceiling when it convenes for a special post-election session.

Oh, well.

MARY’S BACK! With her wife on the stage with the Cheneys and Bushes.

WAR WAS NOT THE ISSUE: I have to say it’s almost funny that for the past few months, I’ve been harangued about the selfishness of gays who put their issues ahead of pressing matters like the war, and yet the exit polls show something rather different. The gay vote for Bush was – amazingly – only slightly down on 2000. Many of them obviously thought the war or the economy was pre-eminent. But for evangelicals, the issue of “moral values” trumped the war! It wasn’t about the war on terror for the Bush base. It was about the war on gay unions. Oh, the ironies.