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Thursday, January 13, 2005
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Social Security
Josh Marshall: "Sen. Wayne Allard of Colorado has an interesting approach to the Social Security and the Trust Fund. He says that the US government will simply go into default and never pay the money back. You'd think that would make some news."
6:28:03 PM 
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D. Note
Coyote Gulch has been wondering if Dani Newsum is upset about the similarity in names between her weblog d.note and the new weblog Dem Notes? 
7:09:35 AM
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Social Security
Harold Meyerson: "Politically, however, Social Security is facing the gravest crisis it has ever known. For the first time in its history, it is confronted by a president, and just possibly by a working congressional majority, who are opposed to the program on ideological grounds, who view the New Deal as a repealable aberration in U.S. history, who would have voted against establishing the program had they been in Congress in 1935. But Bush doesn't need Karl Rove's counsel to know that repealing Social Security for reasons of ideology is a non-starter."
6:56:32 AM
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State of the State
Today Governor Owens will deliver the State of the State address for 2005. Afterwards there will be a 30 minute private press conference with the Rocky Mountain Alliance of Blogs. Thanks to Mt. Virtus for the heads up.
6:52:35 AM
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Iraqi Election
Juan Cole is an outspoken critic of the President and the war in Iraq. Here's his latest post on the upcoming election. Cole writes, "Every path forward has costs. Postponing the elections leaves in place the increasingly unpopular Allawi interim government, populated by old CIA assets, which destroyed its credibility by acting as a cheering section for the US destruction of Fallujah. It could be argued that the Sunni Arab guerrilla war benefits from the perceived illegitimacy of the Allawi government, which has disappointed those who hoped it might restore order. Postponement would risk radicalizing Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the most respected leader in Iraq, who has already once demonstrated his willingness to call the faithful into the streets in the hundreds of thousands if he did not get his way on one person, one vote elections on a fast timetable. A postponement without his acquiescence would be dangerous in the extreme. On the other hand, the credibility of elections in which the candidates have to remain anonymous to avoid being killed, and in which Sunni Arab candidates are increasingly unavailable, and in which half the lists have rushed to withdraw, is also very low."
6:41:17 AM
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