state of the union
Managed to catch at least part of Kennedy's, Pelosi's, Daschle's and Frist's responses to the speech. I can understand everyone's focus on how and when we're going to war, but thought at least someone would point out how strangely left-leaning Bush's proposals were: billions to fight AIDS in Africa, millions to mentor the children of prisoners (quite likely locked up by the GOP war on drugs, let's remember), and money to research hydrogen-powered cars?!? Now, it seems pretty likely we won't hear the administration mention most of this again. They have so many options, see. There's "the war on terror is our focus now" line, or the "we sent our (totally unworkable) proposal to Congress who we expect will work on it (bury it in committee)" or my bet, "the Democrats are holding these efforts up for partisan gain."
Nevertheless, for the President who resisted the Democrats' Homeland Defense proposal, then acted like it was his idea (a belief strangely continued by the press), these proposals seemed so--well, how else to put it?--liberal.
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