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...THAN A month since George W. Bush began getting specific about his plans to reform Social Security, but bookmakers in Washington are lengthening the odds of its passage. Republicans have returned from a weeklong recess telling stories of meetings on the issue with voters who ranged from suspicious to downright hostile. At a town-hall gathering at the Madison #1 Middle School in Phoenix, Ariz., G.O.P. lawmaker John Shadegg faced a crowd of 280 people, 30% of whom by his estimate were there to voice angry opposition to tinkering with Social Security. "They rushed to the microphones," says Shadegg. After...
First, it’s downright cheap...
...matter is by no means easy to swallow. And it is a credit to the production cast that they managed to perform the sobering “Memory of Her Face” and the comedic “My Angry Vagina” back-to-back without seeming downright sacrilegious...
...bought any of the other kids those valentines that say things like “Won’t You Bee Mine” with a cartoon bumblebee grinning on the front. But at the same time, I couldn’t help but be a little excited and downright flattered when people would give theirs to me. And of course, as a certified momma’s boy, I was always happy to give my mother something that I had bought or made for her. As I got older and first started dating, Valentine’s Day became...
...from nonroad diesel engines and enacting legislation to accelerate the cleanup of thousands of polluted sites around the nation. Yet in recent years, the Republican Party's reputation as a steward of the environment has dramatically deteriorated, and the party is now widely perceived by the American public as downright anti-environment. Our efforts have been overshadowed by those in the Administration, and in key leadership roles in Congress, who never seem to miss an opportunity to dismiss environmental protection as a priority. Rather than forcefully and consistently making the case for more innovative environmental policies, the approach in recent...