Friday, October 21, 2005

How Bush can get his mojo back

Daniel Henninger wrote in OpinionJournal Herewith, a four-step plan to ensure there will be no talk of ducks for the next 27 months outside the Crawford ranch.

  • Withdraw Harriet, nominate Edith.
    I completely disagree with this. Miers may or may not have been a good nomination, but if he withdraws the nomination there is not a snowball's chance in hell that one of the people the conservatives would have preferred will get through the weak willed Rinos in the Senate. The only chance of getting a strong conservative in when Stevens dies or retires is to stand strong for Miers and get her confirmed.
  • Go to Baghdad - Rally America's GIs and rally the Iraqi people
    The security implications of this are frightening, but I think our military is up to it, and I agree this would be a wonderful idea.
  • Nail the Greenspan succession - naming a Fed chairman who can read the lips that said in the 2004 State of the Union speech: "For the sake of job growth, the tax cuts you passed should be permanent."
    Very good idea
  • Embrace the sequester.
    I agree completely.
    By embracing the across-the-board spending sequester in the House before it disappears, Mr. Bush at a stroke would become the de facto leader of an effort that would sweep away the ill will of a spending record that for now dilutes his legacy.

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