The end is nigh

Ok, maybe in reality it isn't, but that really only makes a difference to those of us in the reality based community. In George Bush's mind, it is indeed nigh. To the average onlooker, his policies and the things he does may seem foolish. If we were in the last days, it makes all to much sense. War, pestilence, World War III, the tribulation, are all imminent, as well as his ascension to Sunday school in the sky, no longer having to deal with it all. Why worry about the deficit, the biggest ever, and the costs of the Iraq war aren't even included in the budget, when soon you will be lifted up to heaven with all your christian brethren? It's not as if we will have to pay it back after the rapture? Even if we did, everyone that mattered will have ascended already, so the heathen fools left behind (now with Kirk Cameron) will have to figure out their own way to pay. Why worry about loss of habitat, deforestation, climate change, or depleteion of natural resources when you'll be up in heaven for the rest of eternity in a few years? With the tribulation imminent, perhaps already underway, there's no need to worry about how people will generate energy 100 years from now, or even 50 years from now, since only unbelievers will be left to survive with no more oil in the ground and an infrastructure and landscape dependent on the availability of cheap and abundant energy. It's inconceivable to consider any medium or long term effects of significantly changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere by pumping eons of stored carbon gas back into it. We came, we saw, we cashed in, now lets blow this joint.