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Politics : Is Secession Doable?

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To: Road Walker who wrote (1830)	12/13/2004 2:07:15 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 1968

He's supported and passed the biggest new entitlement since Johnson (drug benefit). He's created a whole new level of bureaucracy with Homeland Security, and is about to do the same with intelligence. I'm not a fan of any of those moves, but the political momentum behind all of them might have been unstoppable. If someone else besides Bush was president all of those moves probably would have passed. The drug benefit is something politicians in both parties have been promising for many years. The intelligence "reform" was pushed by the 9/11 commission and over half of Washington either thinks or acts like they think that the commission was so perfect that anything they recommended has to happen. Anyone who staid in its way would probably pay a big price and only delay the changes, or perhaps make other worse changes happen. Its not much of a defense of Bush to say "almost anyone else would be just as bad", but that's about all he deserves on these issues. If he tried to fight them and lost he would be facing more attacks, but I would be giving him a more vigorous defense (for all the insignificant good that would do him). Tim

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