Today is a very good day for the Republicans. It looks like GW Bush and his advisors have overcome the problem the Republican party had for 8 years under Clinton, in that when they try to go after something the Democrats are or aren't doing they always end up in personal attacks against the Democrats and lose.
The other day the Democrats unvieled their economic stimulus package, which includes huge tax cuts for corporations. Something they called irresponsible in Bushs proposal.
After letting the Dems show their hand, GW launched his offensive today. Instead of naming Dems and calling the cold bad people, like the Republicans used to do, he just referred to the Senate leaders. He then went on to say that Oct 4th and so many lost jobs ago, he proposed his package which the house promptly passed. He said the Democrats didn't even want to schedual a vote and they must expect the economy to recover soon or later.
The nail in the coffin is that he then talked about families who know of and people who are unemployed and said they would prefer action sooner than later. Today he is having a town hall meeting in a hispanic community where unemployment is very high, not only is he appealing to them about this issue, but since he shows he cares about the people, it's going to help in the 2002 elections. Then later today he has another stop planned in a community where unemployment is at 7%.
It looks like GW learned from Clinton how to connect with the American people. The Dems are going to get stomped on. Let me remind you that if pro-gun people sweep the 2002 election, which is very likely. Then no one will want to touch the AW ban right before the 2004 election.