No Plan from Bush--Again!

[Doug]

Bush Is Said to Have No Plan if GOP Loses
By Kenneth T. Walsh
US News & World Report
Posted 10/13/06

Some Republican strategists are increasingly upset with what they consider the overconfidence of President Bush and his senior advisers about the midterm elections November 7–a concern aggravated by the president's news conference this week.

"They aren't even planning for if they lose," says a GOP insider who informally counsels the West Wing. If Democrats win control of the House, as many analysts expect, Republicans predict that Bush's final two years in office will be marked by multiple congressional investigations and gridlock.

"The Bush White House has had no relationship with Congress," said a Bush ally. "Beyond the Democrats, wait till they see how the Republicans–the ones that survive–treat them if they lose next month." GOP insiders are upset by Bush's seeming inability to come up with new ideas or fresh approaches. There is even a heightened sensitivity to the way Bush talks about advisers who served his father.

At the president's news conference on Wednesday, allies of his father complained that the president seemed dismissive of former Secretary of State James Baker, who remains close to his dad and is cochairman of a bipartisan panel studying the war in Iraq.

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[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Actually, that worries me more than if he did have a plan. Remember when they called FL for Gore and his seemingly dumb comment was, "My brother promised me Florida" - that he has no plan for losing sounds like he has a plan for staying in power, even if he doesn't actually win - just like 2000 and 2004. We need UN pollwatchers at this election in the worst way. We won't get them, of course. America still has too much pride (hubris?) to admit to the world we need help with honest elections.