I read this article over the weekend, and thought it exceedingly sad. Bush is going to be President for two more years (impeachment notwithstanding), and he has no real agenda, no plans to make the country a better place, and apparently has nothing better to do than stimulate partisan bickering.
Letter From Crawford: White House Delivers a Spring Break Punch to Get Back in the Fight
CRAWFORD, Tex., April 7Three recess appointments have helped put the White House back where it likes to be: in a robust fight with the Democrats.
On its face, President Bush’s decision to use the Congressional recess to fill three administration posts with appointees Senate Democrats had vowed to block — including a man who helped finance attacks against John Kerry’s war record in the 2004 presidential race — was a puzzler.
With Democrats in Congress pressuring him to fire Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and scale back in Iraq, and polls registering continued low approval ratings, Mr. Bush seemed to be poking a sharp stick at Congressional Democrats from weak ground — in the middle of a major clash over war financing, no less.
But the calculation behind the moves, White House officials said, was as plain as the logo on the coffee mugs for sale down the country road from Mr. Bush’s ranch here that read, “W: Still Our President.”
The recess appointments helped put the White House where it likes to be: in a robust fight with the Democrats that even the president’s most dispirited backers can get excited about. As one administration official put it, “It allows us to get our footing back, at least, on issues that resonate with the public.”
One could argue Bush has never been interested in anything that might concern regular citizens who didn't donate to his election slush funds, but pasta-damn, at least pretend to care a little, will ya? Manufacturing reasons to fight with the Democrats just to get PR is pathetic.
and Bush's loyal 32% are a classy bunch, eh?
Last month, the White House came under criticism from its own supporters for not charging hard enough at the Democrats, with Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard writing that Mr. Bush was having a “crisis of presidential leadership.”“He’s responsible for leading — and defending — his administration and the Republican Party,” Mr. Barnes wrote. “He’s failing in both of these duties.”
The fighting spirit of Mr. Bush’s core supporters was on full display here Friday when Cindy Sheehan, the war protester, marched near Mr. Bush’s ranch. A clerk at a local gift shop told a story of the protesters flashing a peace sign at two elderly women who support Mr. Bush and had driven out to get a look at his ranch. The women responded, the clerk said, by flashing “half a peace sign.”
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