Isn't he usually for anything Bush wants?
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040913&s=chait091304BUSH'S SCHEMES TO FLEECE THE POOR.
Up and Away
by Jonathan Chait
SNIP...
"One of the many, many problems with the Bush administration is that its slogans are crafted by powerful and highly competent wordsmiths and strategists, such as Michael Gerson and Karen Hughes, while its domestic polices are crafted by anonymous nobodies like, uh ... say, who is in charge of domestic policy these days, anyway? Thus, Bush frequently finds himself making eloquent pronouncements whose policy ballast is formulated off-the-cuff and discarded just as easily. Early this year, the White House announced a great civilizational commitment to landing on Mars, apparently without consulting any scientists first. Bush declared, "We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon, and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own." Or not. Bush failed to mention the proposal in his State of the Union address six days later....."
Take time to read his explanation of the ownership society. Pretty good. SNIP...."It's tempting to conclude that the "ownership society" won't actually come to pass if Bush is reelected--that it's merely rhetoric generated by campaign strategists concerned that the president lacks a second-term agenda. And that might be. But it's important to remember that Bush used the 2000 and 2002 elections to spur his redistributionary agenda, even though the Republicans won both times in spite of, not because of, his economic proposals. Right now Bush faces strong public opposition to his economic record and has avoided spelling out the details of his plans.
If he wins, it won't be on the strength of the "ownership society"--but that won't stop him from claiming next year that the people have demanded new upper-bracket tax cuts and privatized Social Security....."