Bush to gather advisers in Texas to focus on economy

[private_ryan]

CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- The president will gather top advisers at his ranch Wednesday to highlight an issue Democrats think is his Achilles' heel: the sagging economy.

Three members of President Bush's Cabinet and a host of other top officials charged with economic policy will participate in a morning meeting and a working lunch to look at the state of the economy, the effect of the president's tax cuts and other means of stimulus beyond those cuts.

While a senior administration official said no new policy proposals will be introduced, participants will spotlight Bush's push for energy reform, legal reform and expanding trade initiatives.

A poll from the Pew Research Center released late last week showed nearly six in 10 Americans, 57 percent, say the economy -- not terrorism -- is the most important presidential priority, up from 39 percent this time last year.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/13/bush.economy/index.html

[hatrack]

1. Including Senor Wences, Bozo the Clown and Johnny Knoxville, I'm sure

Can't wait to hear about the pre-fab presentations and minutely scripted camera positions!

[pfitz59]

2. Best advice: reinstate taxes! cancel cuts!

Will Shrub listen? No way in hell!

[bluedog]

number 1 item

stop wasting our fuel monies and hold your meetings in DC you know the Capitol of the United States..not Crawford!!!!!!

[MaineDem]

3. Another summit in Waco?

Didn't he do this last summer, too? Maybe this year something constructive will happen.

:eyes:

[Cocoa]

10. ha ha, I forgot about that!

that was one of the bigger jokes of this presidency.

Pictures of Bush sitting in on the discussions were a hoot. :-)

[htuttle]

4. They aren't going to work on the issue -- they're going to 'highlight' it

Totally political event:

While a senior administration official said no new policy proposals will be introduced, participants will spotlight Bush's push for energy reform, legal reform and expanding trade initiatives.

Hey Bush, I know some people who could use some 'highlighting' on their next rent payment. Got any help for them other than PR?

[Journeyman]

5. Why do they feel the need to "highlight". . .

the mess the economy is in -- we can all see that! What we need to "highlight" is what needs to be done to improve the economy . . . but then, I don't expect BushCo to push for election of a Democrat anytime soon.

[qanda]

6. Hasn't he heard, the tax cuts are working...

The economy is now in GREAT shape.

[gristy]

18. The tax cuts aren't "working".

They aren't supposed to be working. This way he can ram through more "tax cuts" (read: loot more of our treasury) before he is finally railroaded out of office next fall.

I am becoming increasingly convinced Rove/BFEE's plan is to LOSE the election next fall. Why? I really don't know. But how else to explain the ongoing shit they're pulling?

[rwork]

7. I saw on news this morning

the props set up on stage behind bush*" Jobs Recovery". Although we know it is'nt true, they will subliminally try to implant that phrase in the American peoples minds.

[mjb4]

8. did same thing last year

remember that cockeyed kiss of that black woman..

[Larkspur]

9. Economic summit or planning the next great Treasury robbery?

Remember Al Gore's speech in which the former VP quoted that Nobel Prize winning economist who said that what we have going on in the US today is a form of looting.

[bif]

11. What's the rush, George?

More tax cuts for the wealthy coming?

[Medical Speaking]

12. Dumby

This is nice, but nothing will happen. Another photo op. What America needs is a regime change and jobs for Americans and I dont mean Wall Mart type jobs. This idiot has no clue.

[Best_man23]

15. Welcome to DU

:-)

[Shadder]

13. Ya wanna know what pisses me off about this?

We have to pay to fly all these people down to this pissant hellhole of a ranch so they can tell wonderbunny what he wants to hear. So they have to waste untold thousands of dollars to talk about how to turn the economic conditions around. Great thinkng there, just friggin great.

Get your sorry ass back to the White House and pretend to do the job you stole. You wanted it so bad, do it for a change.

[malachi]

14. Bush Advisers

HHH and AH

[paulk]

16. as usual with this administration

talking about something equates with actually doing something, at least with his supporters.

[onehandle]

17. Emergency!!!!!

The top 1% of earners are in desperate need.

Help those poor souls, Dubya!!

[xxqqqzme]

19. 'a morning meeting & a

working lunch'...that's about how much time squatter devoted 2 the economy last year...about the same time 'n place 2. Look at the great results reaped from that 'sycophant of the year' competition! So, of course, it deserved a repeat.

[Snellius]

20. They're planning to invade Canada as "jobs creation" program

Remember the bill to guarantee terrorism insurance? A "job creation program." "Tort reform", also known as the corporate giveaway? A "job creation program." The enery bill, also known as the big oil welfare bill? A "job creation program." Everything's a "job creation program." War? A "job creation program."

[SpiralHawk]

21. Bush advisers craft snappy Summit Slogan:

From atop a towering termite hill at the famous 2003 Pig Farm Economic Summit in blazing hot Texas, George W ? Bush* announced the snappy new slogan that he and his band of crack advisers were able to come up with. He said they had decided to do pretty much nothing about the economy for a while, and just let the snappy new slogan inspire all citizens to sit down and shut up.

The snappy new Republican slogan:

"A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts"


*Clearly rejected by patriotic and discerning American voters in the 2000 election; appointed to office by the so-called supreme court.