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...What an awful year for the President and the country. There was the failure of Social Security reform, a good idea that was misplaced as the Administration's top priority. There was the shameless political grandstanding in the Terri Schiavo case. There was Katrina. There is the stench of corruption rising from the Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff scandals and the appointment of so many hacks and cronies to positions of power. There is the possibility that Karl Rove and other top Administration officials will soon be indicted in the Valerie Plame leak case. There was, and is, the failure...
...failure to reform these programs, Peterson said, would be akin to choosing to “continue to ride a [dead] horse—that is not sustainable...
...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 a strong conservative stand is simply confirmation...
...public, including its opposition to George W. Bushs 2003 entry into Iraq. However, the economy has faltered throughout the entire Schrder period, and the chancellors popularity has fallen to new lows, with significant SPD losses in 2004 and 2005 regional elections. His controversial 2003 program for labor and welfare reform met with widespread criticism. This past May, Schrder declared himself incapable of governing and requested an early election. Soon the summer months morphed into a hasty electoral campaign, pitting the self-abashing chancellorthough he remained the same photogenic, forceful orator he has always beenagainst newcomer Merkel...
Maybe fear of Merkels too stringent reforms prompted her rejection at the voting booth. She proposed to raise the value-added tax in 2006, and, more saliently, chose as her prospective finance minister a Heidelberg professor associated with the flat tax, a fixed-rate income tax. According to some commentators, this may have been the innovation which sank Merkels boat. On the other hand, it was apparent throughout the campaign that the changes Merkel represented were of style rather than substance. Even within the CDU, her proposals generated controversy, casting uncertainty on future labor reforms. Further, her liberalism was circumscribed...