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...Another nominee might have added some fabric softener after the primaries, concentrated on more centrist stuff, and a lot of senior Republicans argued privately for Bush to do just that, to pick up John McCain's more austere economic plan instead, emphasize debt reduction and iron out the wrinkles in the tax plan. But Bush held fast because he believed he alone, not his royal mathematicians, had broken the code, concocted a proposal that was big enough to please his base and fair enough to satisfy the middle. Over time he got better at talking about it; he stopped confusing...
...know their names, but in all truth, you don't care. Because when you see the girls draped in Gucci, wearing Prada shoes, flaunting diamond Rolexes, dripping with Tiffany jewelery, you're not worrying about names or individual identities. They're a concept-interchangeable and a dime a dozen. Ironic, isn't it? They're not bad people, these Pearl Girls. They're just, well, intolerable. But their reign over campuses like Harvard, urban meccas like New York and popular culture is indisputable. Snotty girls rule with attitude and an iron fist. Not only will they be the next editors...
Accommodation or deterrence? Open hand or iron fist? Peace now or peace through strength? Rarely does history settle such debates as decisively and mercilessly as it has this...
...Asian population that is lactose intolerant; sorry kids), suddenly milk has become scrutinized, controversial, even-gasp-dangerous! It all seems like backlash to those ubiquitous "Got Milk?" ads that tell us so bluntly that if we don't drink milk, then we can't have iron pecs like Mark Maguire or shoulders like Serena Williams (read the fine print at the bottom: "Milk is part of a complete, healthy breakfast. Including steroid supplements.") Let's see what spawned all the Moloko Madness...
...fuzziness, doesn't take these beliefs to their logical conclusion. Why should we tax the wealthy at all? And certainly, if we want to keep children from low-income families poor, it would be best to not educate them at all. We can only hope that Bush will gradually iron out these inconsistencies in his agenda, so that eventually, if he becomes president, only Texan oil billionaires will be able to feed their children. Until this happens, we are reduced to surmising where exactly Bush's philosophy of unfuzzy politics will take...