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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Monday, May 02, 2005

Social Security Reform

From Jamie Dettmer, the director of media relations at the Cato Institute. He covered the Margaret Thatcher years for the London Sunday Telegraph in the mid-1980s:

Republican lawmakers reportedly are facing skepticism in their home districts about Social Security reform and have returned to Washington from their congressional break ready to express their nervousness to the newspapers. Did they really think, though, that reforming the "crown jewel" of the New Deal would be a skip in the park?

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