DNC: Bush's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

[madfloridian]

http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/02/bushs_terrible.php

February 7, 2006
Washington, DC - President Bush had another bad week. His lackluster State of the Union Address offered no new ideas, received low marks from newspapers across the country, including many conservatives, and did nothing to repair his shattered credibility. Specifically, his tired policy prescriptions on energy independence and health care are deeply flawed and don't mesh with the reality of his Administration's record. Next week looks just as bad for the President, with the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on his domestic wiretapping program set to begin.

"The nation heard what the President had to say and they just don't like it and aren't buying it," said Democratic National Committee Communications Director Karen Finney. "The country is craving honest and open leadership that serves all Americans, not the closed-door, special interest-driven style of leadership that the Republicans are offering. Democrats remain committed to a fresh, positive agenda that puts the interests of the American people first."
See below for excerpts from newspaper editorials on Bush's bad week as well the challenges he faces next week:

BUSH'S VERY BAD WEEK

Bush's Speech Offered Nothing New:
Washington Post: Bush "Displayed Little Ambition" To Tackle Challenges. "The president's future horizons are constrained by his past choices, budgetary and political. At home, expensive tax cuts and a Medicare prescription drug entitlement limit his scope for new initiatives. Abroad, the commitment of troops, money and diplomatic capital to Iraq has narrowed the president's options. ...The speech reflected Mr. Bush's changed political circumstances, and it displayed little ambition to tackle some of America's greatest challenges at home or abroad."

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Bush's Record Is Dismal." "... if you gauge the president's success by the goals that he himself set in his historic State of the Union speech in 2002, Bush's record is dismal."

Robert Novak: Conservatives: Bush's Worst State Of The Union. "While jumping up on cue to cheer during the speech and delivering rave reviews afterward in the Capitol's Statuary Hall, conservative members of Congress were deeply disappointed by George W. Bush Tuesday night. It was not merely that the president abandoned past domestic goals. He appeared to be moving toward bigger government. The consensus on the Right was that President Bush's fifth State of the Union Address was his worst."

Baltimore Sun: Bush's Ideas "Biting Off Progress In Small Chunks." "...his policy prescriptions often failed to match his soaring words. He spoke of American leadership, yet advocated biting off progress in small chunks."

And there is a lot more here at the link:
http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/02/bushs_terrible.php

[rodeodance]

1. maybe, but WH is still pulling ahead on the snooping stuff and it worries

me. seems like even with all the bad news--Dems just putz along (and i know many are trying hard)