Bush to Stimulate US Economy

G.W. is concerned that the "little guy" is being hurt economically by rising health care costs and gasoline prices. So G.W. is working on an economic stimulus package. I wonder what he will propose?

But it is a safe bet that tax cuts, long a centerpiece of the Bush domestic agenda, would be a feature of any administration initiative. And it is an equally safe bet that Democrats, who are contemplating their own economic stimulus package, would object, saying further tax cuts are unaffordable.

I'm willing to bet that any proposed new tax cuts will not be targeted towards those who need them most. Nosir, the taxcuts will go to the same people that have benefited all along....the wealthy. The "little guy" will have to gather what "trickles down".

But potential presidential candidate Mike Huckabee sees things a bit differently.

Huckabee is the one Republican candidate in the race who has talked often about working class and middle class Americans and the anxieties they have even in an economy that by the numbers looks pretty good. In an interview aboard the Huckabus, the candidate once again discussed the economic situation of "people at the lower ends of the economic scale," who because of rising energy, health care, and education prices "don't have the same level of disposable income they had this time a year ago."

Huckabee wants to help the "Sam's Club Republicans" not the "country club Republicans...at least that is what he claims.

Huckabee has yet to fashion economic policies that might appeal to middle and working class voters--"Sam's Club Republicans," as they have been called, in contrast to the old "country club Republicans." But at some point his campaign presumably will have to offer policies to match his rhetoric.

That's why Huckabee has the Republican establishment so upset with him. It will be interesting to see how they attack Huckabee in order to save their favorite candidate Willard Romney.