Bysh's 50 state approval ratings from SUSA

[Beet]

Personally, I think GOP's 72 hour plan was so successful in 2004 that it was like putting someone on crack: for about 3 days, the state of Ohio was actually deluded into voting for an incumbent that had screwed them over big time, and now that all the battle-harded young "rangers" and "pioneers" are gone they are waking up to it like a washed up sailor with a hangover.

[Beet]

The 2003 tax cut was better.

Anyway, he should push to make his tax cuts permanent. Then focus on tax reform when his panel makes it recommendations this fall.

I doubt he will do that. He might make some noises but he would never try hard to enough to actually get it done. That would look bad for the deficit projections, and he doesn't want to take any fiscal pain that he can leave to his successor.

Remembers, politics comes before ideology for Bush.