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

To: JDN who wrote (259323)	5/29/2002 6:36:38 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

<<I suppose in the end it all boils down to the economy, thats why Daschle is doing his best to make life MISERABLE for average Americans.>> A perfect example of the Democrats fighting the last war. Daschlegephardt is getting HUNG with the Clinton recession. Even their back-pocket media has been flummoxed by the incoherent tactic of screaming about taxes being too low but refusing to engage in the political suicide of calling for tax increases (calling for modification of the 2001 tax act is equal to calling for a tax increase, and fools no one). Yet there's no upside for them. If we are charging our of the Clinton recession by November-Bush gets all the credit, and the Dems problems multiply. As for the economy, the numbers are already there. Capital spending was UP in Q1. Q2 and Q3 looking good. Bush pulled it off. I like SUNW over the next two years <g>...

To: JDN who wrote (259323)	5/29/2002 12:28:15 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

nationalreview.com May 28, 2002 9:55 a.m. - Is Bush Really Wimping Out on Iraq? Or is the net just out of control? The blogoshere is in revolt. The conservative webzines are seething. The cry of "sell-out" rends the air. And a dreadful fear spreads among his conservative and neoconservative supporters that George W. Bush may have shrunk back hesitantly from the historical imperative of invading Iraq and replacing Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. The war on terrorism, they lament, just ended — and with a whimper too. There is one overwhelming reason why Bush will invade Iraq in the next year or so: He will not be reelected if Saddam Hussein is still ruling in Baghdad in 2004. That prediction may sound foolhardy when the president's ratings still hover above 70 percent. But the domestic side of the Bush presidency is going badly — especially from the standpoint of his conservative base. The president's main domestic political achievement is an education bill, virtually written by Sen. Ted Kennedy, from which all Republican initiatives had been stripped. His pandering on steel and lumber tariffs has derailed his free-trade agenda — Congress now looks likely to give him "fast track" negotiating authority on tariffs only with Democrat and protectionist riders attached. All that remains of his early initiative for a Free Trade Area of the Americas is an unpopular proposal to legalize three million illegal Mexican immigrants. Above all, federal spending is completely out of control — and the bill is likely to be presented long before November 2004. Mr. Bush's current popularity and his reelection chances both depend, therefore, upon his reputation as a bold and successful war leader. If he loses that, he loses all. CC