Final Talking Points: President Bush's First 100 Days
(From the White House Communications Office)
– President Bush is a strong leader who is doing what he said he would do.
– The President's plain-spoken and straightforward leadership is helping replace a culture of gridlock and cynicism with a constructive spirit of bipartisan respect and results.
– The President is leading with a steady and measured hand while tackling many of America's most pressing problems - from education to energy, from the economy to foreign affairs, from confronting poverty to racial profiling, from airline strikes to Medicare reform.
– The President is focused on his compassionate conservative agenda of education reform, cutting taxes, empowering faith and community-based groups, laying the foundation for Medicare and Social Security reform, and rebuilding our nation's military.
– The President's disciplined leadership and focus on results has led to notable early accomplishments.
- The President has made bipartisan education reform the cornerstone of his Administration. The President wants to ensure that no child is left behind by holding schools more accountable and insisting on results. The President and Congress are near an agreement on a comprehensive, bipartisan education reform bill.
- The President has shifted the tax cut debate from a rancorous, partisan debate over IF there will be tax relief, to a bipartisan discussion of HOW MUCH tax relief Americans will have.
- The President's budget framework which cuts taxes, funds important priorities and pays down historic levels of debt was approved by the House and Senate with bipartisan support. The budget was passed earlier than usual with the support of 15 Senate Democrats - proof that the President's emphasis on teamwork is yielding bipartisan accomplishments.
- The President put bipartisanship into action by meeting personally with more Members of the opposing party in the opening days of his Administration than any other modern president.
- The President's plan to rally America's community and faith-based armies of compassion to help our most needy is moving forward in both chambers of Congress with bipartisan support.
- The President has personally taken his fair and responsible agenda directly to the people by visiting 26 states, appearing with leaders in both parties. The President's Cabinet has also traveled to 39 states to discuss the President's agenda and budget.
– On foreign policy, the President has been decisive, measured and realistic. He operates with a clear understanding of American interests and a commitment to work with our friends and allies to advance our common security in the world. During his first 100 days, the President traveled to Mexico and worked to strengthen alliances in our hemisphere at the Summit of the Americas in Canada, guided diplomacy that brought home our crew after an accident in China, and personally met with more than 20 world leaders to build relationships and discuss common interests and concerns.
– The President said in his Inaugural Address, "Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism." The President is keeping his word to bring a new way of thinking to Washington.
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