Bush to Bash Congress on Birthday
President Bush will mark his 67th birthday Wednesday with a domestic policy address berating Congress for failing to heed his pleas to pass his crime and transportation bills within 100 days.
In announcing the speech Monday, Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said that Bush, accused by Democrats of paying insufficient attention to domestic matters, will deliver the address at 8 p.m. EDT to guests at the White House. Aides said it probably would last from 12 to 15 minutes.
Fitzwater said the Administration was not asking the television networks to carry the prime-time speech. There was no word whether any of them would do so.
In a post-Gulf War address to Congress on March 6, Bush said: “If our forces could win the ground war in 100 hours, then surely the Congress can pass this legislation in 100 days.”
Congress never embraced the deadline, which falls on Friday.
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