I Took Your Dog Out

I took your dog out to the track tonite.

He ran alongside me as we jogged in the darkness. As we ran around in circles with a half-moon above, he kept his nose forward and mostly resisted the lure of the shadows and the sounds in the woods.

Who would have guess that this little black dog with his barking and jumping would do this so well? Who would have guessed that this nervous tail-wagger would focus himself and run beside me so long?

I took your dog out to the track tonite, and he's been mighty quiet ever since we returned. But he did a good job, and I know that tomorrow he'll come into the study after dinner is through and sit on the carpet and look into my eyes and ask if we can go do it again.

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Social Security

Joshua Marshall/Talking Points Memo has been closely covering the difficulty the White House seems to be having in translating their mandate into the beginnings of the end of Social Security. In an entry today, he posts some eyewitness reports to a public meeting called by Representative Jim Kolbe (R) of Arizona. It seems that he and Social Security Deputy Commissioner James Lockhart were faced by a less-than-accommodating crowd:

Several times Kolbe called for people to allow Mr. Lockhart to continue his presentation, at one point testily exclaiming, "Folks, come on!" One of Mr. Lockhart's slides, a quote from President Bush's recent State of the Union speech, drew loud boo's and even raspberries from the crowd.

But take a look at the coverage of the event by the so-called liberal media:

on the only local news that carried the story that evening, the reporter barely covered the strong opposition, then gave both Kolbe and Lockhart time to make their points and concluded by stating that something needs to be done.

One step forward: the public isn't playing dead.

One step back: far from being liberally biased, the media go out of their way to lob softballs to the Republicans.

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