Bush, at Low Point in the Polls, Will Push His Domestic Agenda

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Carrying some of the worst public approval ratings of any president in a generation, President Bush is heading into his State of the Union address on Tuesday night seeking to revitalize his domestic agenda but facing stiff resistance over the initiatives the White House has previewed so far.

Administration officials said Monday that among Mr. Bush’s proposals would be a plan to help states provide health care coverage to people who lack insurance by diverting federal aid from hospitals, especially public institutions. The provision is likely to draw loud criticism from municipalities across the nation and will significantly affect the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the nation’s largest municipal health care system.

Officials said Mr. Bush’s speech would include proposals to address the nation’s energy needs and global warming, partly by promoting the use and development of alternative fuels. He is also expected to renew his call for an overhaul of immigration law and to propose altering tax policies to help the uninsured.

The president’s advisers said they hoped Mr. Bush’s address would re-energize his domestic agenda by striking a bipartisan and ambitious tone as he faces further isolation on his Iraq policy.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/washington/23bush.html?hp&ex=1169528400&en=46df74d42b49cd3f&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Beetwasher]

1. I Hope He Pushes To Privatize SS Again

That'll really go over well.

I wonder what his "throw away" topic will be this year. You know, Mars Mission, Sex Slaves, Steroids in Baseball, Human Animal Hybrids etc.

[liberaldemocrat7]

12. Unlike Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter

This rock will never rise again.

Harry Truman at least rose in popularity because of his domestic agenda.

Lyndon Johnson appears appreciated for his domestic agenda too.

Jimmy Carter will get appreciated for his effort to get Israel and Egypt to sign a peace treaty and a peace that has lasted to this day.


George W Bush has no domestic agenda that people will appreciate decades from now.

Will historians look towards Bush's domestic spying on liberals, abandonment of the middle class and the poor and his failure to defend America on Sept 11, 2001 and his invasion of Iraq as something redeeming decades from now?

I predict that historians will place Bush this way.


Poularity factor

Franklin Delano Roosevelt 90
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John Kennedy 80
Bill Clinton 80
Harry Truman 80
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Lyndon Johnson 75
Jimmy Carter 75
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Dwight Eisenhower 55

Gerald Ford 40

George Herbert Hoover Bush 30

Ronald Raygun. 30

Richard Nixon 30

George W Bush 25

Herbert Hoover 20

[babylonsister]

2. WHAT domestic agenda? News to me... nt

[Art_from_Ark]

3. Domestic agenda

1) Tax cuts for the rich
2) Program cuts for the poor
3) Tax cuts for the rich
4) Giveaway of public lands and resources
5) Tax cuts for the rich
6) Keep adding to the biggest deficit in history
7) Outsource US jobs
8) Tax cuts for the rich
9) Create an Orwellian state

[dflprincess]

7. I heard on AAR that he will ask Congress to balance the budget

:wtf:

He is also going to push his "health care" (apparently that's what he's calling it) plan that mainly consists of cutting the pretax dollars many of us get to use for our share of our employer supplied health insurance.

[Art_from_Ark]

10. The man truly has no sense of irony

He inherited a huge budget surplus, and proceeded to piss it away like a drunken sailor as soon as he started squatting in the White House.

[LynnTheDem]

4. Oh good! The only thing polling WORSE than his foreign policy...

his domestic policy!

George W. bUsh; truly a MFing mountain of a fuck-up.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. His domestic policy proposals will intentionally be horrible

to provide more smokescreen for the continued agenda against Iran.

[Nite Owl]

6. His domestic agenda is even worse

than his foreign agenda. Thing is he has no credibility left, who is going to trust or believe anything he says at this point? What he wants is not what the people want. He is going to veto stem cell research most likely, his Social Security plans were a fiasco, and let's not forget Katrina. His poll numbers will be going down again after this SOTU.

[DURHAM D]

8. Oh the irony -

Whenever poll numbers have tanked for prior Presidents they have always left the domestic agenda items and started talking about foreign policy. Presidents are supposed to keep foreign policy in the bag until they need it to change the subject. Too bad - not an option.

[bobbolink]

9. Previously, his plans for this year included trying to shut down subsidized housing.

Is that still on his agenda?

[Jack Rabbit]

11. You mean privatize SS, tax health benefits and cut taxes for the rich?

That domestic agenda?

That and throwing people in the slammer and just forgetting about them.