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

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (500981)	11/30/2003 2:28:18 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 769667

and now BUSH IS GOING TO RUIN SOCIAL SECURITY ON TOP OF MEDICARE>>>>> Both Parties Claim Entitlement From Medicare Package Bush may try to parlay his legislative victory to pursue changes in Social Security, associates say. Democrats will cite shortcomings and costs. By Ronald Brownstein, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The landmark Medicare reform package President Bush steered through Congress last week seems more likely to intensify than resolve the debate in the 2004 campaign over how to provide health care and retirement security for seniors, analysts in both parties say. The legislation itself promises to be a flashpoint, with Bush touting its new prescription drug benefit as proof that he has delivered a "compassionate conservative" agenda, and his Democratic rivals portraying the bill as a giveaway to drug and insurance companies. Just as significant, Republicans close to the White House say Bush's success at forcing through Congress structural Medicare reforms will stiffen his resolve to pursue even more ambitious changes in Social Security — a potentially more explosive issue in next year's election. "This gives him the capacity to run on reforming Social Security," one GOP strategist familiar with White House thinking insisted. CC