WP: President Is Still Mum on Agenda For Second Term

[kskiska]

Sunday, July 18, 2004; Page A01

As he campaigned around the country last week, President Bush asked voters to give him another four years to make the nation "safer and stronger and better." But with the election less than four months away, one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the president's campaign is what he would actually do if he wins a second term.

Bush's failure to detail a second-term agenda -- beyond his pledge to keep waging an aggressive war on terrorism -- represents a stark contrast to his previous campaigns, in which he set out a handful of priorities almost from the opening day and rarely deviated from them.

Throughout the year, Bush has focused on Iraq and terrorism and on drawing attention to improved economic statistics, but has barely begun to make the case about second-term priorities. Whether there is room for a bold domestic agenda, given the fiscal strains his first term has created, and whether Bush has fresh ideas on issues such as health care, education and the economy are questions yet to be answered.

Bush's advisers, in a series of interviews in recent days, were quick to rebut those questions. They asserted that there will be a vigorous new agenda and challenged those who have suggested that a second-term blueprint could be little more than a warmed-over version of what Bush ran on in 2000 but has failed to enact.

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[fishnfla]

1. tax cuts in Iraq is in the platform I hear

oh yeah and WMD's in Iran


Perhaps his campaign promises will be better when God tells him what they are.

[Geo55]

2. Yep

God's on vacation , probably ring shrubby up after Nov. 2

[Liberal Veteran]

3. He'll tell us his agenda as soon as his handlers come up with it.

And not a moment before.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. That's OK if he's mum

He won't have a second term to worry about, anyway.

[CO Liberal]

5. Because His Next Term Will Be In Prison....

:-)

[medeak]

6. bomb Iran

Syria, N. Korea...

[mzmolly]

12. You got it!

WELCOME TO DU! :hi:

[Alenne]

7. I know what it is

His plan is to fuck this country up more than he did his first term. He can't exactly tell the American people that.

[Skittles]

8. heaven help us if we have to find out

nt

[TahitiNut]

9. Four years ago, he couldn't even spell 'terraism' ...

... and now he are one. :eyes:

What a disgusting bag of vomit he is.

[madrchsod]

10. free health care for the Iraqi`s

other than that more of the same-the total destruction of the government`s social contract with it`s citizens......

[SharonAnn]

11. "Fix" Social Security and Medicare. Cut social programs.

Tax cuts, of course, and invade some other middle-eastern countries.

[MikeG]

13. Simple platform: Comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.

[montana_hazeleyes]

14. MikeG,

That is a great line!

[MikeG]

16. Thank you.

[Enraged_Ape]

15. Gee, I guess martial law, the draft, and record unemployment...

don't sell as well as they used to. Best keep them a secret.

[acmavm]

17. He needn't bother, just look at the policies of the former Soviet Union.

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