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La Shawn Barber blogged I didn’t listen to George Bush’s speech last night, but I’m told he plans to do what he does best: spend, spend, spend other people’s money. True?

He said he was going to spend money, that is true, but his repeated references to ownership and incentives and handups rather than entitlement and gifts and handouts was definitely conservative.

And he didn’t sufficiently address the rampant Hurricane Katrina race-baiting. If he didn’t, that’s his fault. When it comes to liberals and the media, Bush is like the proverbial deer caught in headlines. What he’s afraid of, especially at this point in his presidency, I don’t know.

There is nothing he could have said on the race baiting that he has not already said.

Bush could easily disarm the whole lot with a few “Who cares what you creeps think?” speeches from the heart designed to communicate the essence of conservatism and why it works in ways liberalism can’t begin to. Liberals and MSM hate him anyway, so what’s he got to lose? I wish I knew why he’s so timid and…hate to say it…ineffectual.

The press is controlled by the left, but now that the American people have seen what Bush proposes, they are going to have a much more difficult task to distort and blame Bush.

Bill blogged But I think Bush went overboard in his relief proposals, and I'm worried because the federal government doesn't have a good track record when it comes to making sure our tax dollars end up where they're needed most. All I can see are a bunch of smiling members of congress looking on as Bush signs the big legislation check.

The governor says she expects the Feds to pay for everything. Bush said we would be paying a big part, but there would be a lot of Inspector Generals watching where the money went.

You'll think they're smiling because they're able to help victims of Katrina, but they're really smiling because the bill being signed also contains a healthy dose of pork for unnecessary programs in their home state.