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To: irish guard
Precisely. I think Bush's trouble is with the middle class, which is the group that so revered Reagan and helped him achieve those landslides. I think he has a residue of personal popularity out there, but I hear a growing unease ... even from conservatives ... about the economic situation because it's the middle class folks taking the hit.

And one of the biggest things, people are just foaming at the mouth about this, is the overtime rules change. I can make a conservative philosophical argument why that's the right thing to do. From a political and P.R. standpoint, I can't put into words how stupid I think that move is, especially a year before the election.

Now, I personally do not believe you can lay economic problems totally at the feet of the president of the U.S., whether it's Bush I and II, Clinton or Millard Fillmore, because I think business cycles are beyond human control. But rightly or wrongly, people think the guy in the Oval Office is the one responsible for making things right. Not Greenspan, not the Treasury Secretary, but the president. And I know things are turning around, but how fast are they going to turn around? Again, I realize it's not going to happen overnight, but I think this country has collective ADHD when it comes to patience.

70 posted on 08/24/2003 7:43:04 AM PDT by GB
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To: GB
You're kidding, right? How many people in the United States Of America are going oppose W's re-election based upon his change of the overtime rule? Two?
71 posted on 08/24/2003 7:46:44 AM PDT by Cedric
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