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April 30, 2005
What are Democrats Doing?
John Tierney writes that President Bush has called the Democrats' bluff on Social Security:
...on Thursday night, when he promised to improve benefits for the poor while limiting them for everyone else, he sounded more like Robin Hood, especially when he rhapsodized about poor people getting a chance to build up assets that they could pass along to their children.
The political capital Democrats are expending on "opposition" politics is astonishing; but even liberals aren't pleased with this. In liberals' view, there's been little resistance to issues like bankruptcy reform and the energy bill.
Complains Matt Taibbi:
On the front pages, the Democrats feud with the Republicans like pit bulls over a bunch of idiotic and mostly irrelevant social issues, usually involving Jesus—Terri Schiavo, judicial nominations, the bankruptcy claims of anti-abortion terrorists. Whenever the cameras are on, they trot out a shrill hag like Nancy Pelosi—a personage very proficient at being loud, but suspiciously ineffective at instilling party discipline—to hysterically denounce the Republicans as the spawn of Satan. But once the lights are off, they hand the party reins to a few dozen whores who make sure the money votes go the right way.
Posted by bill at April 30, 2005 02:07 PM
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