Whit Ayres
Whit Ayres
historical unusual
the most challenging of his presidency, but not that unusual from a historical perspective.
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A lot of it depends upon how the program evolves over the next few months. Every major program is going to have growing pains. That's almost inevitable. The real question is not what seniors think of the program today as much as what they think of it at the end of the enrollment period.
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always underestimate George Bush, and they are still doing it.
critical demanding issue people reached
This issue has reached critical mass. People are demanding that something be done.
amount attention authentic gains increasing social voice
This gains him an increasing amount of attention as an authentic voice for social conservatives.
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First, there's general concern about globalization and its effect on American manufacturing jobs. We see low unemployment, but the headlines are dominated by the thousands being laid off by General Motors and Ford.
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There's obviously a lot of confusion at the start of any major new program, but the real test will come in 9 or 10 months when seniors have made the selection of a plan and some of the initial kinks have been worked out.
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The David Souter example - and to a lesser extent Anthony Kennedy - have made conservatives exceedingly skeptical of any urge to just 'trust me,'