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...Lice evolved with us and depend on us,” Pollack says. “Too bad we can’t claim them as dependants on our IRS tax forms...
...where does this leave us? The pragmatic solution is to throw gay people out of the party, tell women their rights just became a secondary priority, and go into the heartland with a Bible and a tax plan. And that’s why the pragmatic discussion is so limited. Social liberalism isn’t a campaign strategy we picked up for this election. Democrats believe in equal rights because we are the party of every group that has ever had to fight for respect. We know what it feels like to be second-class citizens, and we have...
...terms are about legacy," said a G.O.P. establishmentarian. "I think you'll see a midcourse correction and admission of errors on Iraq now that the Democrats can't make a negative ad about it. I think you'll see him make a real move on expanding health care and tax simplification. He may try some small Social Security--privatization demonstration projects. He will have to address the budget deficit. He will want to find ways to cooperate with Democrats to get things accomplished...
...hang tough in Iraq, he'll also confront Iran about its nuclear arms program, not give an inch to North Korea and stand shoulder to shoulder with Ariel Sharon. He will aggressively pursue the privatization of Social Security, the voucherization of health care and the dramatic simplification of the tax code. He will do this, supporters say, because he thinks he is a leader of rare vision or because, detractors say, he is a leader of rare arrogance. You saw how bold he was without a mandate in 2000, the thinking goes; imagine how he'll be with a victory...
...first term the President came to be preoccupied with foreign policy--a tendency shared by most Presidents, even in peacetime. Domestic policy isn't much fun: there's a Congress and an army of interest groups to be tended. Bush was successful at first. He passed his tax cuts, his No Child Left Behind Act; he tilted the playing field toward the needs and desires of corporate America. He will have a tougher time getting his way in a second term because of the soaring budget and trade deficits--which, taken together, economists call the current-accounts deficit. "This...