Bush Whacking

(Fox News) - A liberal advocacy group plans to spend $8.5 million this year in an effort to keep President Bush's approval ratings down — and tarnish his legacy. Americans United for Change is a labor-funded organization. It says it will buy ads criticizing what it calls the president's failures in Iraq — the response to Hurricane Katrina — and failing to stop the mortgage crisis.

The group hopes to keep Mr. Bush from gaining any positive momentum that could help Republican candidates in this fall's election. And it wants to do whatever it can to negatively affect the president's legacy. The organization outlined its plans last week to representatives of about 30 liberal and labor organizations. It intends to air its first ads in advance of the president's State of the Union address Monday.