Hey, Bush* aides! Yes, I'm talking to you.

[sepia_steel]

Grow a backbone. Know what it feels like to have the power of conviction and intergrity. Know that you'e done the right thing.

Stop taking the flack for our so-called leader's fuck-ups.

[emulatorloo]

1. Bush Aides have a plan -- and it doesn't include doing the right thing

1. Throw money at NO, with no concern of how to pay 2. Blame Democrats 3. Cut Rich Peoples Taxes

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1103581,00.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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[pushycat]

2. Bush Plan courtesy of K Hughes?

Her rapid deployment SWAT-type teams must have come up with this 3-pt plan, eh? Our tax dollars going going gone

[emulatorloo]

3. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

I can see you think as much of Karen Hughes as I do. . .

[pushycat]

4. Hughes is really scary

Like a steamroller, she rolls over anything in her way. Blinders on and SWAT-team $$$$$ behind, she will drown any opposition to the talking points. Imagine, handing talking points to our Ambassadors and threatening to 'call them on the carpet' for deviant, independent, actions. How embarassing to these career people, to have a former news reporter in control of our best negotiators AND actually admitting it in public. more shame on US

[sepia_steel]

5. Yeah, I know it was a lot to hope for

but I was hoping that, like typical bushbots, they would care more about themselves instead and might speak up.