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

To: tejek who wrote (458544)	9/14/2003 9:54:58 AM
From: laura_bush	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Clinton ROCKS!! Thx for link, tejek. Repugs are getting nervous: Republicans Worry About Bush Poll Numbers 30 minutes ago By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With President Bush (news - web sites)'s poll numbers dropping, many of his fellow Republicans are uneasy about the state of the U.S. economy, rising budget deficits, and the U.S. military operation in Iraq (news - web sites). Some believe his job approval rating, which slid to 52 percent in a recent CNN/USA Today poll, the lowest since before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is only a temporary setback and will rebound if the economy continues to recover and Iraq stabilizes. "I think he's long a way from being in any kind of serious trouble," said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a prominent Republican voice. Others believe the president needs to go on the offensive and fight back against attacks from Democrats vying for the 2004 presidential nomination who appear to have found a voice in contesting Bush's Iraq policy and reliance largely on tax cuts to revive the economy. "The White House needs to get back on the offensive and talk about some ideas and policies," said a senior Republican strategist in Washington, who asked to remain unidentified. The economy's consistent inability to add new jobs has fueled much of the worry among Republicans, particularly members of Congress who are getting an earful about it in their home districts. The U.S. economy has lost close to 3 million jobs since Bush took office in January 2001, a situation the president blames on a recession under way when he began his term, the Sept. 11 attacks, corporate scandals and Iraq war jitters. A new Washington Post/ABC News poll released on Sunday also showed that a majority of Americans disapprove of Bush's request to Congress for an additional $87 billion to fund military and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan (news - web sites) over the next year. Six in 10 of those polled said they did not support the proposal, the Post said. A sense that the United States does not have a firm command over the situation in postwar Iraq is adding to Republican concerns, with daily guerrilla attacks on U.S. troops, and Bush's failure to get more international help for Iraq after alienating some members of the U.N. Security Council during the bitter pre-war debate. CHANGE IN IRAQ RHETORIC The White House position on Iraq is that it is now the central front in the war on terrorism -- a change in rationale from when the war was about weapons of mass destruction. Bush is emphasizing that it is better to fight the militants over there rather than in the United States. "You can't negotiate with these people, you can't try to talk sense to these people. The only way to deal with them is to find them and bring them to justice," Bush told reporters on Thursday. Some Republicans are concerned Bush seems to be spending an inordinate amount of time raising money for his 2004 re-election campaign race, lowering his profile from commander in chief to solicitor in chief and leaving him more open to Democratic assault. Bush has been to 20 fund-raising events in 12 states and Washington since mid-June and has raised more than $60 million, on his way to a goal of $170 million for a Republican primary campaign for which he has no challengers. "He is spending too much time raising money. The goal is unbelievably high," said one prominent Republican. Others are starting to complain about the multiple phone calls they are getting seeking contributions. Gingrich said Bush is in a strong position more than a year before the November 2004 election. He pointed out that two Republican predecessors, the president's father George Bush and Ronald Reagan (news - web sites), were behind their opponents just half a year before the November election but ended up defeating them. "George H.W. Bush was behind Michael Dukakis by 19 points in May of 1988. Reagan was behind Walter Mondale in the spring of 1984. There are cycles in a presidency. George W. Bush has had a longer period of positive support than any president in modern history," he said. story.news.yahoo.com

To: tejek who wrote (458544)	9/14/2003 12:35:03 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The Dems are doing CA just right. They sure are doing CA... right into bankruptcy. CA elects a leftist loony Democrat legislature. Businesses and productive CA citizens are leaving in droves. So what does the legislature do to correct this mess???? From todays Las Vegas Review Journal... reviewjournal.com Till daddy takes the T-bird away And you thought California had run out of wacky ideas! California set a record of sorts, this year. If you don't count new immigrants arriving on our shores from foreign lands (who are thus unlikely to know any better), the Golden State lost population. More Americans are moving out of California than are moving in, reversing a trend that dates all the way back to the Dust Bowl. Why? What happened to this golden land of opportunity, where the Wilson brothers used to sing about the endless waves, the endless sun ... a culture so prosperous even teenagers could cruise a T-bird through the hamburger stand, now? The redistributionists got hold of it and turned it into a dysfunctional fascist nanny state, is what happened. On the bright side, this is great news for states such as Nevada, likely locales for ex-California business owners running for the border, seeking to relocate their jobs and their income streams to a saner, more predictable environment. So pardon our self-interest, but ... bring it on, California! The loonier the better! Banning leaf blowers and charcoal grills wasn't enough. No. Sending multi-page forms to small publishers seeking to sell a single book to a California state library, requiring them to certify the "racial diversity" of their mom-and-pop work force? Not enough! Go further! Please! For instance, how about offering rewards to workers who sue their bosses over dirty jokes overheard at the water cooler? Yes! Just when you think you've named something so silly and counterproductive even the Californians wouldn't do it, the California state Assembly OKs a bill that would allow workers to sue their bosses over purported minor labor violations. OK'd Thursday by the Assembly on a 41-34 vote, the bill was immediately decried as a "job killer" by a few more level-headed Republican lawmakers, who warned it will create a plethora of frivolous lawsuits, actually encouraging disgruntled workers to seek fines by snitching on their employers ... by allowing them to keep 25 percent of the fine for themselves. And imagine the "whistle-blower" lawsuit should one of these snitches subsequently lose his job! The bill, authored by the brilliant and creative Sen. Joe Dunn, D-Santa Ana, would allow workers to gin up fines against their employers starting at $100 for each employee per pay period for the first violation, and $200 per employee per pay period for subsequent violations -- and pay the disgruntled employees a 25 percent commission for dreaming the stuff up. "Without government enforcement, there is only one option and that's private enforcement," explains Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento. (What this is really all about is that California's Democrats don't believe their own labor department is aggressive enough in fining employers. Their proof? There are still some employers left.) Assemblyman John Benoit, R-Bermuda Dunes, foresees aggressive California lawyers seeking out disgruntled employees in advertisements that ask, "Have you been fired or criticized by your boss? Are you unhappy with your employer? I can help." "The potential for abuse is huge," Mr. Benoit says. But what Democrat has ever met a trial lawyer he didn't like? Oh, and that business about "cruising just as fast as she can now"? Did we mention that Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, leading in the race to replace disgraced Gov. Gray Davis, now wants to ration gasoline? Oh, yes. Keep going, please. We couldn't have dreamed this stuff up if we'd tried. And we used to wonder why they called it "the entertainment capital of the world" ... even though most of the movies are now filmed in Canada.