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I understand about the left and what it wants.

I don't blame Bush for the mess we're in. I don't think there's much he can do--unless he wants to risk impeachment, and he would probably fail even then.

My concern is that failure to accept the reality of the situation will make Bush and the Republican Congress sitting ducks for socialist demagoguery. The way to avoid that is to make radical proposals to fix the economy, that at least seem plausible, but that the left could never accept. For example, Bush could propose elimination of the income tax, and cutting all unconstitutional government spending. Actually, he could do all that by Executive Order, although the political risks would be very high, and he would risk impeachment.

The strategy would then be to blame Democrat opposition to the radical proposals for everything bad that happens in the economy. The President and the Republicans in Congress would need to incessantly blame every lost job, every bankruptcy, every stock market fall on "do nothing" Democrat intransigence to Bush's "Free Society Program." Eventually, the Democrats would either start losing elections, or they'd cave under the political pressure.