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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (127851)	2/18/2001 4:53:42 PM
From: mst2000	Respond to of 769670

Nikita - You think this is going to hurt the Democrats? Think again. Every shot Bush takes at organized labor merely fires them up even more to fight the GOP machine. Add to that his attacks on collective bargaining, his attempt to appoint anti-labor advocate Linda Chavez to head the Dept. of Labor, and his attacks on the State of Maryland's right to require labor agreements on the work Maryland is doing on the Wilson Bridge project, and, on top of that, the inevitable pain that Reaganomics, Part II, will have on the working class, especially organized labor, and you are setting up for the most organized campaign in American history to defeat one party's control over the congress. Assuming Helms and Thurmond live another 2 years (in which case they will lose the Senate before then), the GOP will lose both the Senate and the House in 2002, when the NRA will not help them sway any important part of the rank and file to vote against their pocketbooks for conservatives whose policies clearly favor the wealthy at the expense of the working man, and who are out to destroy organized labor, as they have been ever since unions first started organizing workers. Conservative republican union members have voted for Republicans for decades -- an executive order is not going to change that. But a frontal attack on labor is going to mobilize an already pissed off Democratic party in the next two elections. Bush supporters are making a huge mistake right now -- they think the honeymoon Dubya is getting right now (in large part because of an organized campaign within the GOP to continue making Clinton the headline for as long as possible) is going to translate into high ratings 18 months from now, when we are in the middle of the next election campaign. Never forget that Bush, Sr. had 90% approval ratings right after the Persian Gulf war -- that turned to 35% approval ratings once the country realized that the war was just a diversion for conservative policies that favor the rich and the privileged, and do little or nothing (or worse) for the middle and upper middle class and for ethnic and racial minorities. You think the mainstream in this country cares about the repeal of estate taxes? Only when they have to have deep cuts in social spending because $850 Billion drops out of annual revenue 10 years from now when the proposed repeal is fully phased in and multibillion estates can pass without taxation. Look down the list of issues, and you will find that people generally disagreed with Bush's approach to the issues, even when they agreed that it was important to talk about those issues. Once we get past the Marc Rich pardon, Dubya's actually going to have to do something -- and when that happens, rest assured that the 52% who voted against him will be angrier than ever. I am looking for Dubya to sink like a rock just as soon as the he does anything besides bombing Iraq, watching TV and exercising. We'll see. MST