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A LAME DUCK to address the "Union" tonight at 6PM

Posted by Maggie (Guest) - Tuesday, January 23 2007, 22:40:08 (CET)
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Unfortunately, the so-called "union" is now a country divided between the HAVES and the HAVENOTS. Those who have aligned themselves with the Ruling Elites have MADE IT! Those that are half-starving, which is 66% of this country, SHOULD bring on the revolution!

The American people have GOT to realize the damage Bush has brought this nation, and for the people to rise up and take back their country!

America, what are you afraid of? Can ANYTHING be worse than what we have NOW?

-Highest deficit EVER!
-Highest inflation EVER!
-Highest Health-Care costs, EVER!
-False economy
-Failed Foreign Policy
-Failed Road map to peace
-Failed eucational system
-Failed crime Bill
-Failed Domestic Plan
-Failed Government
-Failed Environment
-Failed President
-Failed Secretary of State
-Failed Secretary of Defense
-Failed Vice President
-Failed Cabinet

What is left?

Bush to defend Iraq plan By Steve Holland
Tue Jan 23, 11:54 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President George W. Bush will try in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday to rally skeptical Americans behind his latest Iraq plan and revive a domestic agenda resisted by the new Democratic-led Congress.

With polls showing him at the weakest point of his presidency, Bush was preparing to deliver his annual address to a nation increasingly opposed to the Iraq war and unsupportive of his drive to send in 21,500 more troops.

Bush will be in the uncomfortable position of addressing a Congress entirely controlled by Democrats for the first time since he took office, a stark reminder of how much the political landscape has shifted since November's elections.

Hoping to divert public attention back to domestic matters, Bush plans to dangle a list of new and recycled proposals on health care, energy, education and immigration and urge bipartisan efforts to advance them.

"The Democratic Congress is not stepping up on a lot of these things," White House spokesman Tony Snow told NBC News. "And we're going to go ahead and offer them a way forward ... to get things done on issues that aren't going to go away."

Seeking to reassert his relevance and salvage the rest of his term, Bush goes into his speech with his popularity near the lowest level of his six years in the White House.

A Washington-Post/ABC News poll released on Monday gave him a job approval rating of 33 percent. Only twice in six decades has a president given his State of the Union address with lower poll numbers: Harry Truman during the Korean War in 1952 and Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal in 1974, the Post said.

FAILURE TO SELL IRAQ POLICY

Reflecting Bush's failure to sell his retooled Iraq strategy to the U.S. public, the poll showed 65 percent of Americans oppose a troop increase, up from 61 percent immediately after he unveiled it in a January 10 speech.

Bush has made clear that he will talk about his Iraq policy, which has been met with scorn on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are preparing nonbinding resolutions against it.

"There's no question there's a lot of skepticism, both Republicans and Democrats, and the best way to convince them that this makes sense is to implement it and show them that it works," Bush said in an interview with USA Today published on Monday.

In his speech, he is expected to defend his approach in Iraq as a vital step in the broader war on terrorism.

But he will also focus on several big issues that have been eclipsed by the raging debate over Iraq, widely seen as a catalyst for his Republican Party's election losses.

Sitting on the podium behind him will be new House leader Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record), a liberal California Democrat with whom Bush traded insults during the midterm campaign.

Bush's speech will include proposals for expanding use of alternative fuels to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil, as well as for breaking a legislative logjam on an immigration plan that provides a possible path to citizenship for about 12 million illegal immigrants.

On health care, Bush will propose what could amount to a tax increase for some 30 million Americans who now have the most expensive health care plans.

Bush has shied away from tax increases his entire presidency and hammered Democrats who talked about them. But the White House admitted on Monday that his proposal to make health insurance more affordable for more Americans would mean "some people would be paying more for health insurance."

Bush's proposal would for the first time allow people to take a tax deduction -- similar to the one used by homeowners for their mortgage costs -- when they have private health coverage on their own or through an employer.

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