Talking Points Memo: The president and the White House have now compared their build-up to the Iraq war with their push to phase out Social Security
December 26, 2004

Talking Points Memo:

The president and the White House have now compared their build-up to the Iraq war with their push to phase out Social Security enough times, that it seems worth creating a detailed taxonomy of the Bush White House approach to major policy initiatives in order to predict their efforts over the next two years. This would suggest that we're now in the lying and fear-mongering phase of the campaign, which would be followed of course by a later phase in which a specific policy remedy is brought forward, nominally meant to address the fake problem. Read more...

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