Bush "fired up" over S.O.T.U. speech, "expected to dismiss claims that the nation is in a recession"

Last Chance for Bush to Redefine Legacy
President Will Make His Final State of the Union Address Tonight

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/BushLegacy/story?id=4204128&page=1

By CHARLES GIBSON and GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS
Jan. 28, 2008



Tonight's State of the Union address is one of the last chances President George W. Bush will have to frame his eight-year presidency. A person familiar with the president's thinking said Bush is "fired up" going into the speech and plans to attempt to reassure Americans who are nervous about the economy. While he will acknowledge uncertainty in the economy, the president is expected to dismiss claims that the nation is in a recession.

The president will urge Congress to pass a bipartisan $150 billion economic stimulus package. The legislation, which Democratic leaders have agreed to, would distribute rebate checks of up to $1,200 to 117 million families.

Bush will also remind the nation about improved security in Iraq and attribute the improvement to his plan to build up troops there last year. A senior White House official has told ABC News that the president hopes to have 20,000 troops coming out of Iraq this summer. However, these are not new troops withdrawals, and there would still be 10,000 more troops in Iraq than before the "surge."

Tonight the president also plans to give a "full-throated" appeal to Congress on immigration reform, the source tells ABC News, despite the fact that his immigration reform proposal stalled in Congress last year and isn't expected to be revived. The issue has become a political hot potato in an election year when Republican candidates are running away from Bush's proposal to account for millions of undocumented workers.

It will give all the Republican candidates a tougher row to hoe......

All you need to do at this point in history to guarantee that the average working man or woman won't vote for you is mouth the words "We are not in a recession."

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the more people watching are going to be scratching their heads and wondering just what the hell planet he's living on.

I guess there isn't one if you've got all your paper wealth tucked away someplace you think is 100% safe. Not that anyplace is.

And read, "Abba dabba dabba dabba abba dabba dabba dabba said the monkey to the chimp..." or maybe, "I'm a little teapot, short and stout..." I'd pay to see that!

That would be something new.

Or maybe he actually said "wired up".

Every time he speaks during NYSE hours the market goes down and I lose money.

Pigboy Rush was saying the same thing on Friday.

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That's all I need to know about him.

his daddy did the same thing. denied there was a recession going on, when he did finally admit it - it was too late for him

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it's Bill Clinton's fault ..."