dude can still raise big money
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=3
The President’s Dinner:
Last night in Washington, DC President Bush raised around $27 million
dollars for candidates in the November midterm elections, reports
Reuters. LINK
With a gargantuan model of Congress as the backdrop, the message of
the NRCC’s elaborate President’s Dinner last night was clear: keep
Congress. Lasers, bottomless wine, and Gretchen Wilson music (yes,
she even played “Redneck Woman”) treated over 5,000 onlookers before
and after two quick, feisty speeches from congressional leaders
Hastert and Frist and the $27 million man, President Bush.
Looking tanned (10 minutes in the sun in Baghdad works wonders),
President Bush gesticulated passionately from the stage when
addressing troop withdrawals and his tax cuts. Bush suggested the
Kerry-Murtha-Feingold alliance is waving “the white flag of surrender
in this war on terror.” Although Bush did not garner raucous ovations
like President’s Dinners of the past (and only 30 applauses rather
than 70 in 2004), he received a surprisingly warm response to his not-
so-popular-among-party-faithful guest worker program.