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...Washington last week, the Democrats rehearsed a new line: President Bush is approaching Social Security reform the same way he entered Iraq-precipitously, declaring a crisis where none exists, creating a solution that promises to be disastrous. They were also, privately, mystified. Why was George W. Bush choosing to waste his honeymoon political capital on this particular can of worms? The polls indicate no great public clamor to change the system (and the Democrats were right about the absence of a crisis-there is a Social Security problem; there is a Medicare crisis). Indeed, there were rumblings of discontent among...
...will eventually feel the same allegiance to Bush and the Republican Party that their grandparents felt for F.D.R. and the Democrats. And beyond the politics and ideology, there is the President's style: Bush loves bold. He sneers at small, is annoyed by niggling. If you're going to reform Social Security, why not Roto-Rooter it? In this particular case, he has a point...
...Abbas, we hope he remains committed to his declared anti-violent stance and to accelerating reform in the Palestinian Authority. We expect that his choice of future government officials and cabinet members be based on their qualifications and capacities to serve the interests of their people—not their allegiances to political, family or tribal affiliations. Only this kind of government can properly build a healthy foundation of a free, democratic, prosperous, and peaceful state...
...that served to inspire hate and rage against Israel and the United States in the Arab world. This time, images from the West Bank and Gaza of people standing in lines waiting to cast their votes will work in the opposite direction and transmit the notion that democracy and reform are within reach...
...warned that without major structural reform, the council would see “more bounced checks, more out-of-touch social events and more weeks where the council is ready to mutiny...