Bush the Wonder Boy Fights for Social Security Reform

[lady lib]

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EDITORIAL
Social insecurity
It is a wonder Bush continues his fight for reform at all

May. 2, 2005 12:00 AM

The effort by President Bush to refocus national attention on Social Security reform is welcome in the way that one's bruised forehead welcomes the brick wall falling down.

Does this mean the bashing will stop?

What American, after all, is not growing tired of current federal operations? With phony "virtual" filibusters mocking the concept of "advise and consent" in the U.S. Senate? With obstructionism against important presidential nominees who are deemed too mean for the likes of the United Nations?

And with murky, minority-party vows to shut down government operations altogether at some distant point - as if any lucid person watching Congress wouldn't conclude that such an awful "shutdown" hasn't already happened?

The short answer is that the president's press conference last Thursday just added more bricks to the wall to knock his head against.

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Given his opponents' poisonous, anti-anything smog machine, it is a wonder Bush continues his fight to reform Social Security at all. (Emphasis mine)

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So according to the editorial board of The Arizona Republic, it is the Democrats who are practicing "inexcusable," "hyperbolic," "murky," "partisan," "oppo" politics. Dear God it just never ends.

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[JDPriestly]

1. Who writes this stuff?

I'd like some biographical information on some of these right-wing "news journalists." I don't want to contact them or cause them trouble. I just want to figure out if and where they were educated. How in the world do they come up with this stuff? Why are they so stupid? Did they graduate from Bible colleges? Do they write this trash just for the money? Where does the news media dig these guys up? They seem to have no clue about human history or behavior. Who are these idiots? Unless we know who they are as individuals, what their backgrounds are, who pays them, how they get their jobs, we really can't know how to deal with them.

[lady lib]

2. What's really amazing about this is

that's it's TYPICAL for them. They write swill like this on a regular basis. And it used to be even worse when the Quayle family owned the paper. Now they're owned by Gannett Co. - as in USA Today.

[JDPriestly]

3. Seriously!

We need to get some information on the kooks that misinform the public like that. What expertise do they have?

[lady lib]

4. Their website isn't helpful

except to say that it ranks 11th among U.S dailies with 1.5 million readers per week, it's been around since 1890 when it was more honestly called The Arizona Republican, and it's the largest non-national newspaper owned by Gannett. Their editorial page obviously has substantial influence on Arizona's political climate, and quite frankly I'm surprised by the poor quality of this editorial. (I'm not surprised by the content however, as I said that's their typical partisan slant.)