Not Your Sweetie

"Bush Blames Hill Republicans"


From washpost:

President Bush's campaign to enact his domestic agenda and win reelection next
year is creating political problems for congressional Republicans.

Bush, accused by Democrats of shortchanging homeland security, is blaming the
GOP-controlled Congress for underfunding programs to guard against terrorism.
Mr. Bush told the National Governors Association this week that Congress "did not
respond to the $3.5 billion we asked for -- they not only reduced the budget that
we asked for, they earmarked a lot of the money" for other unrelated programs.
"Tactically, that was a stupid thing for the (White House) to do," a senior House
GOP aide said yesterday.


and then later in the article


The president also is deploying Cabinet officials to drum up support for his $695
billion tax cut plan on the home turf of GOP lawmakers who have expressed
reservations about the proposal, a senior White House official said.