Quote:Sunday, Apr. 23, 2006
TIME Magazine's Mike Allen outlines a "five-point plan" posited by President Bush's new chief of staff Josh Bolten to "rescue" the Bush presidency in magazines to hit newsstands Monday.
The five key points include:
1) "Deploy guns and badges" -- to play to the conservative base on illegal immigration, using the cloak of Homeland Security.
2) Make Wall Street happy through tax cuts.
3) Brag more ("highlight the glimmer of success in Iraq").
4) Reclaim security by playing tough with Iran (On Iran, "Democrats will lose").
5) Court the press (pffer Tony Snow of Fox News the job of White House press secretary)
Excerpts from the TIME article follow, on the five points the Bush White House plans to use to revify a presidency whose poll numbers -- even by Fox News estimates, place the president at a 33 percent approval rating.
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full article here. Excerpts follow.
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Someone, please tell me that this was a very belated April Fool's joke. Let's break this down.
1. The very companies that love Bush love the cheap labor illegal immigrants provide.
2. Tax cuts mean nothing if our currency is worthless.
3. Bragging about the 'glimmer of success' in Iraq is really hysterical. The only success has been the financial success of companies like Haliburton, 3 years into this conflict, with no end in sight. It certainly can never be a military success, because there were never enough boots on the ground to insure that was going to happen (Shinseki told Rumsfeld the truth, but Rumsfeld just wanted to stay in his own comfort/fantasyzone)
4. Playing 'tough' on Iran. Now, just what does that mean? A pre-emptive strike, to which the Iranians will counter-attack, with our troops the sitting ducks/sacrificial lambs in Iraq?
5. Court the press? As though the press in this country wasn't just another outlet for the Aministration's spin? Please. And remember, there is no FCC law compelling the talking heads on radio or television to tell the truth. If there were, the families of our soldiers - and those soldiers themselves - would be learning about the illnesses and genetic mutations caused by the depleted uranium many of them have been breathing.