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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Saturday, January 22, 2005

Conspicuous absence

Is it just me, or is there something missing from the President's weekly radio address?

Terrorism? Nope, it's there.
"building democracy?" Nope, that too.
No Child Left Behind? Oh, there it is.
Tort reform? Tax code simplification? He mentioned that too.

Social Security privatization reform?

Social Security reform isn't mentioned at all. I realize no one really pays attention to these things, but I would think the President would want to get the word out on one of his biggest proposals.

Is the "bait and switch" truly on?

*UPDATE* I realize, after a couple more reads, that the sentence, "And our most valued institutions will be better prepared to meet the new challenges of a new time." Is no doubt geared toward the plan. Of course, he still doesn't mention the thing by name. Maybe the drubbing the prospect has taken from recent politicians has him spooked?