Half credit: Bush's Social Security plan--that is, non-plan--just gets more and more unpopular. But the Democrats shouldn't revel in their brilliance.(Dispatches)
American Prospect, The, May, 2005 by Cocco, Marie
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DURING GEORGE W. BUSH's FIRST term and especially after his reelection, Washington settled on a conventional wisdom about his presidency: Bush may be prone to dangerous policy blunders, but his political instinct is unerring.
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The unpleasant predicament in which the White House finds itself on its signature second-term domestic-policy initiative--revising Social Security by undoing the New Deal program's social-insurance protections and replacing them with private investments--has upended the consensus. Despite the president's personal public-relations offensive, ...
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