Opposite Day

My friend called yesterday and said it was Opposite Day because her boys were being good boys, when they usually are bad boys. She asked me if it was Opposite Day, and wondered if anything odd was happening to me. Besides spacing out and pouring my Cheerios into a pan on the stove intead of a bowl, everything was pretty normal.

But then I read this post, and I think yesterday really was Opposite Day. Or more to the point, every day is Opposite Day at the White House.

It is a favored tactic in the Bush White House to take on tough criticism by boldly asserting the opposite.

Keeping clean air regulations from forcing further cuts in emissions is labeled a "clear skies" initiative. Judicial nominees who would bring the government into our bedrooms are defenders of liberty. And a scheme to gut Social Security and turn it into a money machine for the securities industry is a plan to "strengthen" that same system.

The latest in this series of 180-degree misdirections - reminiscent of when kids play "opposite day" - was Bush's assertion at a White House conference last week that moving forward with his proposals on Social Security would send positive signals to financial markets

Then it goes on to talk about the Social Security Privitization thingy. It explains it all pretty well for those of us that got C's in Economics.