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...Bolton nomination because of personal friendship (and, one suspects, just to spite the rest of the world) but has flinched from every actual ideological conflict. Bush has gone five years without casting a veto and caved on almost every domestic argument (excepting tax cuts) from Social Security to Medicaid reform—which metamorphosed from a serious reform empowering individuals to just another entitlement program. He hasn’t seen a spending bill or an expansion of Federal powers that he didn’t like. Cravenly preferring submarine judicial nominees like Roberts and Miers in place of taking...
Without any ideological ballast, the Bush Presidency resembles nothing more than the bastard child of the Harding and Johnson administrations: from cronyism at home (from Brown at FEMA to the Miers nomination) and abroad (Iraq reconstruction contracts), to overly ambitious Great Society spending at home (Medicaid) and quagmire wars (Iraq, again). If, despite a comfortable Senate majority, Bush will not or cannot nominate a bold constructionist to the Supreme Court, it is clear that the administration and the Republican Party at large are without cohesive intellectual principles, message or vision; they are unified only by their short-term desire...
...back to the Gulf Coast again this week after spending his weekend on a rare two-night stay on the road to supervise the federal response to Rita. Congress will launch its investigation of the response to Katrina and take up such legislation as aid for petroleum refiners and Medicaid reimbursement for evacuees who have left their states...
...spontaneous situations, like Belafonte's rant last week, the response is almost always paralytic silence. It would have been quite appropriate and human-and long past time-for either Clinton or Obama to push back, "Harry, do you think we'd have food stamps or Medicaid without the Democratic Party? Didn't you notice how life improved for the working poor after President Clinton passed the earned income tax credit? Tonight, when you're sipping Chablis in your New York City apartment, there will be thousands sleeping on cots in shelters. We're trying to help them. Your anger doesn...
...that problems will not arise or can be ignored. If their luck wears thin during their long years as a graduate student, their options were, until recently, limited. They could join their fellow students who accrue thousands of dollars of long-term dental debt, resort to dental clinics for Medicaid recipients, or pop pain killers between classes for months to ward off tooth pain...