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May 17, 2006
Could Bush Succeed After All?
Topics: Political News and commentariesQuin Hillyer at The American Spectator offers some reasons why, apart from Congress, the White House still has a fighting chance for some real policy successes, and also some suggestions for how to maximize their opportunities.
First, change the subject from immigration as fast as possible. Bush just isn't winning on this issue. And he's wrong, politically, to insist on comprehensive reform all at once. The best thing he could do would be to convince Congress to pass a bill heavy on enforcement and heavy on improving the INS bureaucracy, along with a mere fig leaf for a guest worker program -- something like a very short-term, temporary guest program combined with one of those usually useless commissions to study the issue farther.As for the Democrats, Hillyer describes them as prone to self-destruction - captive to the left-wing special-interest groups, overly shrill and angry, and hopelessly out of touch with middle America which means that they can be counted on to remind Americans that their (the congressional Democrats') values are out of whack and that their policy preferences are so wacky left as to be a turn-off.
Posted by Richard at May 17, 2006 9:36 AM
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