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...Social Security, the key focus of the President?s second-term domestic agenda, the White House has problems of its own. On the campaign trail, President Bush avoided getting specific on how he?d change Social Security, talking only in vague terms about an "ownership society" and his determination to grab hold of the "third rail of American politics." Showing voters a detailed plan on Social Security could have sent Bush back to Crawford, Texas permanently. But having avoided airing specific proposals during the election, whatever plans he now puts forward don?t carry much of a public mandate...
...last week, Bush appointed three Harvard alums to chief posts in his second-term administration...
That doesn't bode well for George W. Bush's ambitious second-term agenda, which includes reforming the federal tax code, partially privatizing Social Security and probably naming at least one Supreme Court Justice. To make any of that happen, Bush will have to work with the opposition. But he is getting less of a honeymoon from Democrats after winning an election with a clear majority than he did after winning one decided by the Supreme Court. Leaders of both parties mouth the usual platitudes about wanting to work with the other side, but they are not backing...
...going on, so I haven't been in a very reflective mood," says the man who has just replaced half his Cabinet, dispatched 12,000 more troops into battle, arm wrestled lawmakers over an intelligence bill, held his third economic summit and begun to lay the second-term paving stones on which he will walk off into history. Asked about his re-election, he replies, "I think over the Christmas holidays it'll all sink...
...meantime, the lessons Bush draws from his victory are the ones that matter most. The man who in 2000 promised to unite and not divide now sounds as though he is prepared to leave as his second-term legacy the Death of Compromise. "I've got the will of the people at my back," he said at the moment of victory. From here on out, bipartisanship means falling in line: "I'll reach out to everyone who shares our goals." Whatever spirit of cooperation that survives in his second term may have to be found among his opponents...