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...first to tell you. Even Dean is trying harder to lace his anger with sunshine, telling New York Times editors last week, "America's always been the country of hope and of high moral principles and ideals. Let's hope again." If you're fighting the status quo, it's better to be a happy warrior...
...economy and continued problems overseas, voters across the nation are feeling skittish and might turn to a candidate just because he promises change. There may be no single lesson from the defeat of Gray Davis last week, but it does convey a general sense of menace to the status quo. Incumbents, beware. --With reporting by Terry McCarthy, Jeffrey Ressner, Sean Scully and Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles, Laura A. Locke/San Francisco, Betsy Rubiner/Des Moines and Matthew Cooper and Douglas Waller/Washington
...Pangloss for a panhandle last week, recognizing that humility is the only way to solicit enough money and troops to quash a quagmire at least as intractable as Vietnam. U.N. help in the colonization—ahem, rebuilding—of Iraq is an unambiguous improvement over the status quo, of course, especially given the haphazard and under-funded efforts until now. Bush’s coalition of the hoping-for-favors-later is no substitute for friends with real benefits to give. International troops and money, together with a timeline for an Iraqi constitution and elections, are as valuable...
...Democrat’s worst nightmare. As it stands, the District’s schools spend nearly 50 percent more money per student than that nationwide average. And yet, the results of the spending are abyssmal. In this light, defending a budgetary black hole like the status quo doesn’t seem to be viable. One organization, Stop D.C. Vouchers, an organization supported by the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, the two largest teachers’ unions, has merely advised voucher opponents to go on the offensive. In its memoranda, the group advises politicos...
...schools are not getting better and they can scarcely get worse under the status quo, a policy that the Democrats are tacitly supporting through obstruction. Further, parents who can scrape together enough money to afford to send their kids to private schools do, and the rest of the students (by far the worst off in terms of socio-economic status) are left to languish in public schools...