[Urbane Guerrilla]

Oh, and did Bill Clinton stay mewed up at 1600 Pennsylvania his entire two terms? I seem to recall he took his share of vacation time, and it's one of the things about Ole Possum Head I didn't complain about, and I'm not about to start.

And did Ford? Did Jimmy? Did Ronnie? Did Bush41? The last guy to make the Presidency look easy was Ronnie. 'Most everybody turns gray in that job, and I don't think it's all just the demographics.

Dubya getting the fuck outside of the Beltway every so often kept him sensible, and centered -- though you being the complete sucker for the Socialist Democrats that you are, you'll never have the eyes to see it that way. Nonetheless, I appreciate good sense of that kind -- and I've been around the Beltway, and seen it in action.

Fiscal irresponsibility at the Federal -- money printing -- level is the spring that drives inflation. Like most things economic, the effects take time to appear. It's simple to state: enlarging the national debt (or inventing money out of air) increases inflation, as more individual dollars divide a given level of real wealth, which hardly ever can change as fast as the money supply. Are you old enough to remember the inflationary years of the 1970s? I am, and at the end of the day, a dollar bought what a dime once did, roughly.

And the 1970s reminded us that inflation is not a good thing. Even the appearance of doing that which makes inflation is a thing to be avoided, and this Administration isn't avoiding it.