Fox: "Bush Spends Vacation Plotting Second Term"

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This isn't what I'd call earth-shattering news, folks...my reason for posting it is the somewhat Freudian slip of the word "plotting" in regard to Bush's plans...

Regarding Trent Duffy's comment below, I think Bush has already decided what he wants to tell the American people, and it's "Vaffunculo"...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142589,00.html

WASHINGTON — President Bush (search) began his post-Christmas vacation Sunday contemplating a hefty second-term agenda on both global and domestic fronts, including expectations of continued violence against U.S. troops in Iraq.

"This week is going to be about thinking about what he wants to tell the American people for the inauguration speech as well as the State of the Union," Deputy White House Press Secretary Trent Duffy told reporters.

Bush is spending the last week of 2004 formulating his second-term goals, which include tax and Social Security (search) reforms, dealing with an increasingly expensive war in Iraq, possible nominations to the Supreme Court, an Israeli-Palestinian peace effort (search) that remains in flux and tensions with Iran and North Korea over nuclear weapons.

Bush planned a low-key visit to the ranch in Crawford with few, if any, public appearances planned before his return to Washington on the weekend after New Year's Day.