Passionate Opposition

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http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=162131ae5e7f1d24&cat=c08dd24cec417021

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You have a disaster of unimaginable proportions going on in Iraq and you have a quivering dollar” that our creditors in China could send into a nosedive, Kennedy said. It’s a political hand that should test any politician. Topping it off, President George W. Bush is going to Congress with an agenda he only touched upon in the election. “I didn’t hear a lot about capturing the courts,” Kennedy said, referring to Bush’s push to get through conservative judges that the Democrats blocked in his first term. The election wasn’t about privatizing Social Security either, said Kennedy.

A Pew Research Center poll shows that Bush begins his second term considerably less popular than other recent second-term presidents and that his domestic agenda is at odds with the public’s priorities. Americans want health care addressed, and while they’re open to the idea of private investment accounts for Social Security, they think it’s more important to preserve the guaranteed monthly benefit that is the core of the system
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With Social Security reform shaping up to be the defining battle, forget about the Democrats. In the Republican Party you’ve got one faction saying no tax increases, another saying no benefit cuts, a third saying any transition to private accounts has to be paid for and a fourth saying let’s call the whole thing off, it’s too hard. “Not only does he have to worry about a foreign-policy quagmire but a domestic one, as well,” says Marshall Wittmann, a policy analyst at the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. Almost every day some Republican raises his or her head above the parapet to take on Bush’s policies. U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donahue, usually a reliable cheerleader for the White House, says tax reform is a steep hill he’d rather not climb, and he’s noncommittal on overhauling Social Security. Bill Kristol, one of the GOP’s preeminent thinkers, likens Bush’s approach on Social Security to the Clinton overreach on health care, which paralyzed the White House for 20 long months.

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Ya Ted I wonder if he will wave to you too!!! :)