STATE OF THE UNION


Quick take on Bush was that he plans to hold fast on foreign policy, tax cuts, and opposition to gay marriage. On just about everything else - education, health care, even prisoner rehabilitation he plans to return to the 2000 strategy of Compassionate Co-option. The big difference now is 1) he's doing it in the face of massive deficits, 2) he's trying to fool moderates on domestic issues for the second time. So the challenge for the Dems is to do what Al Gore could not - uncover Bush's lies without getting tagged as negative, pompous or strident. I can't think of a Dem politician worse than John Kerry for this job except for...Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. In their anemic response they pretty much encapsulated why the Democrats are currently the minority party in both houses.