Recapturing the base: Welcome back "W"

The Bush administration has begun to take steps to recapture the base of support that it lost during the immigration debate. In my opinion the immigration fiasco did more to harm the president's popularity than Katrina did. In politics there is a group of people that you should never piss off, your base.

Last week I was attending the Young America's Foundation student conference. As part of the conference we had the opportunity to go to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to get a briefing from Tony Snow. Tony Snow informed us that talk show host from all over the country were invited to the White House to meet with the President. Sean Hannity had a one on one meeting and Rush was supposed to do the same. Showing that the President still regarded them as part of his base, Tony Snow jokingly said, "They're still our peeps."

Yesterday the President made it clear that he wanted to send a tax plan to Congress that would cut corporate taxes. There is little to no chance that a plan like thing would pass the Democratic congress unless it was part of a compromise that gave the Democrats something they wanted. After all the Democrats have already tried to pass mass tax increases, why would they go in the opposite direction. The purpose of this plan is for the President to regain support among his base.

The President has also vowed to veto all of the Democratic congress' spending bills until they get the excess spending under control.

All of a sudden we have a President who is willing to fight for our principles. I applaud the President's efforts to reunite the base. I hope and look forward to a George W. Bush who is willing to fight and struggle for the conservative principles he was elected to push forward. Welcome back "W".