NO SMALL BALL:

State of the Union to address health care, Iran (JENNIFER LOVEN, 1/31/06, Chicago Sun-Times)

President Bush, in his State of the Union speech tonight, will offer ideas for dealing with domestic problems like high energy and health care costs and international troubles like Iran's suspected nuclear ambitions. [...]

Unlike last year's focus on Social Security, an initiative that failed, Bush's emphasis will be more diffuse, with proposals aimed at taming health care costs, moving America away from its dependence on foreign energy sources, remaining competitive in the global economy, and getting the ballooning federal deficit under control.

Those four areas also are driving Bush's post-speech travel. The White House says Bush will give one major speech per week for the next four weeks and in each lay out one domestic initiative he introduces tonight at 8 p.m. Chicago time.

Year six and they still let him lower expectations.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 31, 2006 6:06 AM