Newsview: Crisis Overtakes Bush's Agenda

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - Hurricane Katrina swamped President Bush's second-term domestic agenda, reordering his priorities and changing the political landscape.

His open-ended commitment to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast has become his No. 1 domestic imperative.

Swept away was Bush's pledge to cut the budget deficit in half. His centerpiece proposal to restructure Social Security — in trouble even before the storm — probably is a casualty, too.

Also suddenly endangered are his proposals to make permanent certain tax cuts, repeal the estate tax, overhaul immigration law and rewrite tax laws.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050917/ap_on_go_pr_wh/katrina_bush_agenda

Read on...lots of good stuff here...

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Every day, the world rolls over someone who is sitting on top

of it. Welcome to the club shrub.

[rodeodance]

2. says puts at risk his legislative agenda. But seems to me the Rupugs

will carry this out anyway.


.....Also suddenly endangered are his proposals to make permanent certain tax cuts, repeal the estate tax, overhaul immigration law and rewrite tax laws.

[barbaraann]

3. Ummm... he's happy as a clam.

So is Grover Norquist. His domestic agenda is to bankrupt the government, spread death and chaos, transfer the federal treasury to his cronies, and institute martial law. Things are right on track!

[truthisfreedom]

4. if it wasn't for rove having kidney stones, bush would have already spun

this into a way to drain the last of the treasury into his cronies' pockets. mark my words... the way bush finally goes down is when he's caught guiding someone's hand into the cookie jar.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

5. Aw shucks. Now I can't balance the budget.

Hey, I was JUST about to start on it.

[Dover]

6. Don't be silly. Bushco LIVES for crisis. Chaos is their strategy.n/t

[0007]

7. What issue or crisis hasn't junior fumbled the ball?