Bush's Real Mandate

Don't start any large new projects until you prove that you can fix some of the nasty messes you created in your firs term. I can't see why anyone would trust you to start a big new mess when you still won't:

• show any seriousness about budgets. Instead we hear more programs from you that are going to further blow out the deficit you created.
  
• Get Iraq on the right track and stop our soldiers from getting killed over there.
  
• Make a serious dent in terrorism with a grand strategy beyond Iraq --where an assault on Fallujah is about to incite a bunch more people to hate the U.S.
  
• Have an economy that lifts people out of poverty rather than adding to their roles.
  
• Rather than having fewer people with health coverage, have more.
  
  Maybe when you fix a few of those horrific problems, I'll trust you to do something else.
  
  If not, then no.