The President's Three Part "Comeback Plan" -- THEY MUST BE STOPPED

[emulatorloo]

Time Magazine

more at

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1103526-3,00.html

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By late last week, Administration aides were describing a three-part comeback plan. The first: Spend freely, and worry about the tab and the consequences later. "Nothing can salve the wounds like money," said an official who helped develop the strategy. "You'll see a much more aggressively engaged President, traveling to the Gulf Coast a lot and sending a lot of people down there."

The second tactic could be summed up as, Don't look back. The White House has sent delegates to meetings in Washington of outside Republican groups who have plans to blame the Democrats and state and local officials. In the meantime, it has no plans to push for a full-scale inquiry like the 9/11 commission, which Bush bitterly opposed until the pressure from Congress and surviving families made resistance futile. Congressional Democrats have said they are unwilling to settle for anything less than an outside panel, but White House officials said they do not intend to give in, and will portray Democrats as politicking if they do not accept a bipartisan panel proposed by Republican congressional leaders. Ken Mehlman, the party's chairman and Bush's campaign manager last year, told TIME that viewers at home will think it's "kind of ghoulish, the extent to which you've got political leaders saying not 'Let's help the people in need' but making snide comments about vacations."

The third move: Develop a new set of goals to announce after Katrina fades. Advisers are proceeding with plans to gin up base-conservative voters for next year's congressional midterm elections with a platform that probably will be focused around tax reform.Because Bush will need a dynamic salesman to make sure that initiative goes better than his Social Security proposal, advisers tell TIME there is once again talk of replacing Treasury Secretary John Snow. There are no plans to delay tax cuts to pay for the New Orleans reconstruction or the Iraq war, and Bush is likely to follow through on his vow to veto anticipated congressional approval of increased federal funding for embryonic-stem-cell research.

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[Jade Fox]

1. Where is the one thing that might actually work?

I'm mean doing something about gas prices.

The rest of it sounds like business as usual. Earth to GOP: your business
as usual program is becoming less and less effective.

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

5. Business as usual

That's what I was thinking. Throw lots of money at the problem with no accountability, blame everything on the Democrats, and then move back to the agenda they were pushing before--tax reform.

It doesn't even sound as if they plan to make changes so this sort of disaster (the response, not the hurricane) doesn't happen again.

[Jade Fox]

8. One thing I've noticed about these folks running our country...

is that they are s-l-o-w learners. They don't get that just because
something works once (or even several times) it won't work forever.

I wrote on another post yesterday that smart crooks and liars know
every time they con someone, they lessen their chances of getting
away with conning that person again. It's a symptom of the Bush
Adminstration's arrogance (and class priviledge) that they have none
of that sort of street smarts.

[Meldread]

2. Don't forget about gay bashing!

He needs to propose another Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriage, because we know THAT is what is REALLY destroying America.

:sarcasm:

[revree]

3. If the American masses fall for this...

they deserve everything they get. This is ridiculous and I pray to all the gods, goddesses and whatever the hell that the people do not buy this shit for one second.

[joanne]

4. No plans to delay tax cuts??????

I must be having a nightmare.

[electropop]

6. No, it's a dream come true.

Americans are going to be amazed at the continuing and growing disconnect. The more blatant the better. Buh-bye Bush!

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

7. When do we get to hear the trifecta speech again?

Only this time it will apply to the things that happened this term that "prevented" him from balancing the budget. Katrina is obviously one of them. Maybe Iran will be another. He can't claim a recession so I don't know how he'll justify the tax cut.

[emulatorloo]

9. kicking n/t