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...Bush has a ceiling of 52%, says Republican pollster Whit Ayres. "It's hard to imagine anyone who didn't vote for his re-election would approve of his job performance." And aides felt the President had aced his recent appearances. The strategy--a latter-day version of "let Reagan be Reagan"--was to get Bush out of rigid, scripted settings and have him adopt a looser, more self-deprecating style so that people would see the casual side that had originally won the country over...
...than a speech. As recently as 1964, the speech was given at midday to a much smaller television audience. The State of the Union we know for its theatrics is all relatively new, with the tradition of inviting and singling out special guests only begun by (who else?) Ronald Reagan in his 1981 speech...
...Bill Clinton's second term. And they point out that Bush has not vetoed a single bill since taking office. "It's hard to veto something from a Congress dominated by your own party," says Murray Weidenbaum, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan, "but Bush should have been tougher on the spending side. That's been a disappointment...
...Bush never promised the U.S. another Ronald Reagan. That President went to Washington declaring that government was the problem and vowing to do away with whole agencies. Bush pointedly never called for eliminating traditional conservative targets like the Department of Education. "Those efforts typically aren't successful, and they weren't at the core of animating this President's view of conservatism," Bolten said. Instead, Bush's "compassionate conservative" philosophy called for more limited but still robust government, including creating an office for faith-based initiatives and backing the No Child Left Behind...
...When Reagan and President George H.W. Bush saw their deficits spinning out of control, they both raised taxes. But this President has adamantly refused to rescind any of his tax cuts. He wants to make permanent many cuts that are due to expire--such as the estate tax and the 15% rate on capital gains...