That's His Style | Planet Waves for Nov. 5, 2004, 9:40 a.m. CET "I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it," said George W. Bush, in his first post-election press conference on Thursday -- and one of the few of his administration. What an interesting comment. As I understand the term, political capital is your base of support. It's a financial metaphor for political wealth, and in those terms, it's like your endowment. You're supposed to earn interest on that money and let it grow, not spend it. But Bush is the quintessence of a rich man's son; he would have no way to know that. And he has gone bust on every venture he's been involved in. So when he says he intends to spend his political capital ("because that's my style," he added, in case we were wondering) what he is really saying -- despite what he intended to say -- is that he's going to blow off his own political party and grassroots supporters. That would be the next logical step. The Bush engineers must be convinced it's their destiny to rule the universe, now that they've actually got the numbers which claim they've pulled a majority vote. (The voter fraud emails are coming in so fast it will take me two hours to read them.) They've acted like they owned the galaxy even when they lost the first election by 500,000. Imagine them with a victory (of some sort or another) of six times that figure. It's a good thing for us that Bush plans to blow off his own political base, because they are the only ones who can get him under control. They will be blown off, cut themselves loose, or be dragged down into the political abyss with him. Speaking purely in a political sense (other factors may intervene), because the Republicans control both houses of Congress, the president-select will presume he has them wrapped around his fingers, but that it is exactly those presumptions that will wear thin under the shocking influence of his caustic rhetoric and "morality" of his ever-more-horrendous war. There are many genuinely moral people in the United States of America, people who truly exist on the "live and let live" basis, despite the bad reputation that evangelical religion creates for itself, or gets created for it by those who abuse it politically. Many, many people take their faith in earnest, and many read the New Testament. If you ask me, Congress is one important forum where this drama is to be played out; those hallowed halls will, for a change, become the forum for truth, as even these rented-out specimens of politicians attempt to grab hold of the ship of state and sail it through those Neptune-square-Sun waters of the newborn progressed Pisces Sun of the United States natal chart, if only to protect their own portfolios. And Chiron has yet to reach Aquarius, which transit is the significator of the people awakening in a new and unusual way, with the help of all new media. We are in a situation where I have every faith that all things will work together for the greater good. Praise Jesus! Praise the Lord!