bush* Pushing Agenda in State of The Union

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040117/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_state_of_union&cid=544&ncid=716

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WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) says his State of the Union address will insist his administration is successfully confronting the nation's problems, while laying out an agenda focused on guiding the economy to even better times and aggressively waging the war on terror.


"We will continue to confront the challenges of our time, and we will continue to make America a more secure, more prosperous and more hopeful place," Bush said as he gave a stripped-down preview of his Tuesday night speech in his weekly radio address Saturday.


The radio address wasn't the only way the White House hinted at the messages Bush plans to deliver during one of his most important speeches in the run-up to the November presidential elections.


Press secretary Scott McClellan offered some highlights Friday in two press briefings and was joined by another White House official who described the speech's preparation on condition of anonymity.

...... sounds like Fiction to me.... :puke:

[alcuno]

1. Who knows the title of that Tom Clancy novel?

The one where Jack Ryan becomes POTUS?

[madmax]

5. 'Executive Orders'

n/t

[NerdzRuleDaWorld]

6. The title is Executive Orders

[alcuno]

17. Thanks NerdsRuleDaWorld.

And Welcome to DU!

[UpInArms]

2. hopefully the people will recognize

this tripe for what it is:

Among the accomplishments Bush was expected to tout, according to McClellan: $1.7 trillion in tax cuts over 10 years that the White House credits for the improving economy; a sweeping education law that imposes testing mandates on schools; a 10-year $400 billion Medicare overhaul that provides prescription drug coverage to the elderly and injects private insurers into the government program; the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that toppled hostile regimes, promoted democracy and confronted terrorism dangers; and the agreement with Libya to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction.

are you better off than you were in 2000?

are you safer than you were in 2000?

is your government representing your interests?

I think not.

this * makes me :puke:

[rfranklin]

3. Translation from Bushspeak...

"We will neglect no opportunity to make you more fearful, to push you further into Third World status, and destroy any hope that the BFEE will be deposed in any forseeable future."

[young_at_heart]

4. More secure.....NO More prosperous.....NO More hopeful.....NO

I suppose the die-hards will delude themselves into thinking "yes" to all these things. Too bad they can't handle the truth!

[TheDalaiMama]

7. Hope he mentions the fact they "THEY" have created every challenge

we are facing. Think he will?

[jbfam4]

9. Got to be Clinton ....did it....

[Malva Zebrina]

8. who will speaking for the opposition after the speech ?

anyone know?

[leftchick]

12. I don't know, but here is a "pre-buttal"

Lukewarm at best.....I would love to see Sen Byrd after, He won't hesitate to point out the whole thing is a lie. Just like last years lies.

<House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, South Dakota Democrat, offered a "pre-buttal" to the president's speech yesterday that takes Mr. Bush to task for "misguided priorities."
"All Americans should listen closely to the State of the Union address next week to see if the president's reassuring rhetoric matches everyday realities," Mrs. Pelosi said. "Sadly, if the past is prologue, the president's speech will be another missed opportunity to offer the leadership worthy of a great nation and an agenda that addresses the urgent priorities of the American people.">

....this is from the moonie times, I could not get the link to work.

[Robb]

10. Tell Democrats TODAY

Clap him on, and clap him off. And that's it.

Anyone not sitting on their hands for the rest needs to look for a new job. :)

[tinrobot]

11. I won't be watching the State of the Union

Since the war, I have not been able to tolerate watching or listening to anything spouting forth from that man. It's like nails on a chalkboard. Whenever he comes on TV or radio, I switch the channel and read what he has to say in the papers/internet.

Am I strange, or does anyone else feel that way?

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

13. I know the sensation

But I have some weird masochistic compulsion to hear the bastard in order to keep my loathing finely tuned. Also with the idea of knowing the enemy.

[jbfam4]

14. I"m with you

The sight of him makes me sick and my blood pressure go up. It's like watching a bad actor in an awful play, but it is real.

[tibbiit]

16. turned off cable news for good

while watching the sickening campaign photo op of saddams statue toppling in April.
You arent alone, and I will never turn all that shit on again even with a dem win! Never! It is off
permantely.

I wont sit and watch 4-8 more years of torturous lies about dems by gasbag-gag pundits from hell, when the real criminal
rethugs go free of harrasment or blame for ANYTHING they stole during booshies 4 years of shame, starting with the bloodless coup of 2000.
tib.

[Th1onein]

18. I have problems listening to him, too

[shanti]

19. no, you're not strange

and many people here feel like you do. however, i have NEVER been able to stand watching or listening to him since he was selected.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

15. Bush's goal: "everyone who wants to work can find a job"

"State of the Union" preview from Reuters via Yahoo:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20040117/ts_nm/bush_dc

Apparently two key elements of Bush's speech will be his proposals for "lifetime savings accounts" and "retirement savings accounts," two dynamic programs which will assist Americans in saving money. This will come as great news to any Americans who have jobs that pay a "living wage" or have not burned through their entire life's savings in the last two years in order to survive. To quote the late, great Muddy Waters, "You can't spend what you ain't got."

Quotes from the article:

Bush: "Our economy grew at its fastest pace in two decades in the third quarter of 2003."

snip

Reuters:

The latest employment reading from the government showed a rise of just 1,000 jobs in December. That was the fifth straight monthly increase but fell short of private economists' expectations for a gain of 130,000 jobs."

snip

"We will work to expand opportunities for all Americans to own their own business. We'll press forward on an agenda of economic growth so that everyone who wants to work can find a job," Bush said.

End of quotes

Unfortunately, Bush (at least in this preview) failed to mention some of the programs he has kneecapped in the last year that WERE of direct benefit to small business owners. Although it does make it easier to "expand" opportunities if you've already swept away the existing ones, right?

[tinrobot]

21. Everyone who wants to work can find a job - in India...

Please fingerprint yourself before boarding the Bangalore express...

[midnight armadillo]

24. The Dem response

Exactly. The Democrats should respond to this by saying something like:
"Everyone who wants to work can find a job, unfortunately this appears to require emigration to India."

I want to see Daschle or someone say that in the rebuttal. Then mention companies reincorporating in Bermuda while retaining all the benefits of being based in the US at the expense of American workers and how they're unpatriotic shitbags and Bush supporters. Time to draw the rhetorical knives!!!

[gate of the sun]

20. Let's get married

oh honey and fly to the moon or maybe mars!!!!!!

[hedgetrimmer]

22. fly me to the MOON

Let me sing among those stars
Let me see what spring is like
On jupiter and MARS

he he he HA!

[indypaul]

23. Is this going to be another $2,000 per plate affair?

Clinton lied to save his pride.
Bush lied and people died.