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...technology [Dec. 6]. I can also empathize with Iranians who aspire to move peacefully and democratically toward a strong, independent country. Paradoxically, the U.S.'s extreme position on the nuclear issue has only complicated politics in Iran, giving an undeserved edge to the hard-liners while forcing the democratic-reform movement to take a backseat. That situation must be resolved soon for Iran to move ahead...
...spoke to, the drama of the Bush campaign was his refusing to. "If you know me, I guess that's called stubborn," the President says. Whenever an aide comes back to him with reports of receiving a hostile reaction to one of his policy proposals, from bureaucrats bucking intelligence reform or members of Congress squealing about his budget, Bush greets the embattled aide with the same phrase: "You must be doing something right." A Bush adviser puts it more bluntly: "He likes being hated. It lets him know he's doing the right thing...
...given his enlarged majority in Congress and the absence of any election distractions. Bush is already the most legislatively successful President since Lyndon Johnson, according to the Congressional Quarterly; roughly 80% of the legislation he supported has passed. But his domestic goals for the second term--from Social Security reform to tax restructuring to deficit reduction--mirror in ambition the foreign policy revolution of his first. In his second term, he will need to make peace with a Congress that sees the world differently from its end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Not just Democrats but fellow Republicans as well carry some...
...kinder, gentler Rove who descended on the annual G.O.P. congressional retreat at the Tides Inn on the Chesapeake Bay on the last day of November. As Bush told TIME, "Taking the issue [of Social Security reform] on will require a certain amount of political courage in the legislative body." The President's victory, Rove told the delegates, proved that voters will reward candidates who show guts on a tough issue like Social Security. But it was not lost on the lawmakers that they are the ones who will face voters in the future--some in 2006--so they pushed back...
...mandate, and he should use it. I would like to take a percentage of the funds deducted for my Social Security tax and invest it in stocks to earn higher interest than is earned by funds in the traditional Social Security retirement program. Bush's plan to reform the tax code is another brilliant course of action. Think of how much money is wasted on the Internal Revenue Service, not to mention high-priced accountants. Sam Hoff Clarkston, Michigan...