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...cruel hoax” in 1936 and Barry Goldwater to advocate the repeal of Social Security in 1964. In 1978, a young Bush ran for Congress claiming that Social Security would be broke by 1988 unless private accounts were established. Unfortunately for the would-be Congressman, he was wrong. Unfortunately for all college-aged Americans, Bush is trying to phase out Social Security once again...
...wisest words at the end of Terri Schiavo's life came from her sister, Suzanne Vitadamo: "We would ask that all of those who support our family be completely kind in their words and deeds toward others." That turned out to be a bridge too far for Congressman Tom DeLay, who called down fire and brimstone upon the American judiciary. "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today," said the congressional jihadist, whose unholy combination of ethical relativism and moral vitriol has been, well, a godsend for Democrats...
...Democrats' relative silence on all this has been prudent, but telling. Their implicit position has been to err toward law. "The notion that Florida failed to do its job in the Schiavo case is wrong," said Congressman Barney Frank, one of the few Democrats willing to speak about the case. "Procedurally, there was a great deal of due process." Frank was right, but it was a curiously sterile pronouncement, bereft of the Congressman's usual raucous humanity. It exemplified the Democratic Party's recent overdependence on legal process, a culture of law that has supplanted legislative consideration of vexing social...
...Volcker is still probing his dealings. A third report covering that and broader questions of U.N. culpability in Saddam's vast rip-off is due in June. But sources tell TIME that the reports on U.N. mismanagement are already damning enough for longtime U.N. critic Henry Hyde: the Republican Congressman is drafting a bill to make U.S. financial contributions contingent on sweeping U.N. reforms...
...installations. Presumably, Jeb has George's cell number, but Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the chief bullet biter. That's why California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger buttonholed him at January's presidential Inauguration; the Golden State has 62 bases to protect. The Governator has also enlisted former Democratic Congressman and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who says, "Having a California Governor who campaigned for this President spells political power...