"pie in the sky"?
Whatever.
Fact: Every single time he has stumped for tax cuts he has gotten them. You want to make them permanent? Great. It doesn't diminish his success in this arena. This is one of the few domestic policies Bush has been reliable on for the conservative side.
I have NO cause to believe I have to worry about his intentions to campaign hard for more substantive changes in the tax code. In this arena, it is NOT Bush we need to lean hard on. It is the Senate.
I don't give a flip about "his" success. What matters is what's good for the country. And temporary tax cuts are no better for the country than no tax cuts at all, because they provide ZERO incentive for government to cut spending. They'll only cause the deficit to increase, and then at the end of the ten-year period, the taxes will go up automatically, and the whole idea of cutting taxes will have become discredited in the public eye, because of the way they added to the deficit.
If they're not made permanent, then it's all for nothing. Yes, Congress needs to be pushed, but so does the President, most definitely. It's not a complicated task for them in the slightest. Once that's done, then we can talk about letting him play around with his other ideas.