Yahoo! News - Bush Repackages Plans for State of Union
WASHINGTON - President Bush is ready to challenge Congress to approve a stack of politically divisive measures he has proposed before without success, from major changes in Social Security to a loosening of the nation's immigration laws.

Bush will go before Congress and the nation with his annual State of the Union message Wednesday night with the lowest approval rating of any second-term president since Richard Nixon. Yet he is in a feisty mood, insisting that his re-election has given him a mandate for change and political capital to spend in pursuing his agenda.

The poisonous relationship between Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill also complicates Bush's task.

"We have the most polarized Congress maybe since the 1930s," said Terry Madonna, a professor and pollster at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. "I don't think there's any way Democrats are going to roll over on these issues that they feel very strongly about. Bipartisanship is virtually obsolete in Congress."

Hey, just keep calling us "crazy" and "unpatriotic" and whatever vitriol you can spew our way, and see just how far your plans get. Any Dem that rolls over for these guys now ought to be drummed out of the Party. Time to stand up to the bullies.

This, to me, shows just how bad a "leader" George really is. A smart man would find ways to compromise, call off the attack dogs, and work with the opposition. The current power grab is over-the-top and could potentially backfire.

Let's hope his hubris brings him down.