Thursday, September 15, 2005

Bush speech- Was it enough?


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President Bush this evening addressed the American people with his plan to help rebuild the Gulf Coast. Several good ideas included an inducement for business to go to the region and an offer to use the military to do more.

What was missing in the speech was the price tag for this, as well as what on his agenda is he willing to give up to help ease the pain and pay for this. Some suggestions which would have shown some courage would have been to keep the estate tax, not make the tax cuts permanent, appointing a 9/11 type commission, rather than Congress, to investigate what went wrong at the Federal, State and Local level of government. He did take accountability again. Overall the question reporters are asking is was this good enough to save his dropping poll numbers. It didn't yet for me but time will tell. I would rather focus on results, not speeches.

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