WP: Events Pull Attention From U.S.: Experts Say Bush Agenda Waiting

[DeepModem Mom]

Events Pull Attention From U.S.
Bush Agenda Ends Up Waiting, Experts Say

By Jim VandeHei and Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, May 7, 2005; Page A04


He has traveled from coast to coast pitching his Social Security plan, devoting speech after speech and even a rare prime-time news conference to his top legislative priority. But as much as President Bush wants to turn more attention in his second term to domestic policy, the rest of the world keeps forcing itself back onto his agenda.

Whether it be fresh violence in Iraq, threats of new nuclear arsenals in North Korea and Iran, or even unexpected complications in his feel-good trip to Europe this weekend celebrating the end of World War II, Bush keeps finding foreign affairs intruding on his home-front plans.

The president departed for the Baltics and Russia yesterday after a week in which the Gallup polling organization found public support for the Iraq war at its lowest point ever, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bush's closest and most valuable European ally, won reelection but lost considerable power when more than 60 members of his Labor Party fell victim to strong anti-Iraq war passions.

Bush, who talks often of how his legacy will be linked to the spread of democracy but who also wants a bold domestic accomplishment, has been persuaded by aides that he has about one year to restructure Social Security. After that, aides said, Bush can follow past presidents and spend his time in public talking about global affairs....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/06/AR2005050601360.html?sub=AR

[Missy M]

1. Bush should spend his time in public....

...milking horses that way he can't do any more harm. I meant to say male horses

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Indeed! nt

[Mountainman]

5. It will be hell on the horses, maybe he could milk cows instead

[Missy M]

6. That wouldn't be any fun for him.

[ima_sinnic]

3. Bushit's "legacy will be linked to the spread of democracy"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
:puke:
:nuke: :argh: :nuke: :argh: :nuke:

[liveoaktx]

4. Yeah, that'll be excuse when the final nail is in his SS coffin

[pretzel4gore]

7. it took 2 merdiawhores to spin this crap?

well, their names are on the record as bushevik pigs, so we shouldn't complain....someday, the bushsukk media will be held accountable

[KoKo]

8. Thanks all for the great chuckles on this thread...

:D

[DemBeans]

9. uh-huh...this is why his domestic agenda is failing...

Because that pesky rest of the world keeps "forcing itself" back onto his agenda.

This will probably be the spin for his failed domestic policies - that he had to put them aside to deal with, say, North Korea (which he's ignored or bumbled so far, causing the crisis). And "fresh violence" in Iraq? Excuse me? It's been violent since day one.

His domestic agenda is failing because the American people utterly reject it, but the press will continue to scurry like rats in a dump to find excuses for him.

[AlCzervik]

10. The nerve of those outside of the us events dare take away the

attention from Bush's wall street boondoggle! How dare the war he started illegally intrude on his agenda! Why do outside the US events hate freedom?

[DawnneOBTS]

11. He should spend the rest of his term behind bars n/t