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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (172748)	8/19/2001 10:36:49 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769667

You can take your choice, but it's good news either way: 1) The Democrats have forgotten that the squealing about "protecting Social Security" has to be suspended around appropriations season when there's a Republican president. By forgetting this, they will be hammered as Bush threatens veto after veto and widely publicizes the outrageous and unnecessary spending that Congress engages in each Autumn. The Dominici's and Lott's deserve the hammering also, of course. But they'll get mostly off the hook, because the White House is in friendly hands. At the end of the day, Daschlegephardt will wind up dealing Bush many concessions and reforms they haven't even dreamed of yet-then retiring to lick their wounds. OR 2) Daschlegephardt knows full well that this is the wrong time to beat the Social Security fear drum, but they've made a conscious decision to do so anyway. The reason is they are completely beaten already. Bush has not only outmanouvered them on all the issues to date, but is in a position to comprehensively kick ass on appropriations. Thus their only chance is to try to demagogue the whole thing by scaring the aged-as they have been doing so well for a generation now-and hoping the left wing media rides in to save them at the last minute. #1 is, IMO, less likely. #2 won't work. The 2002 elections are going to be fun to watch...