Here's the lead paragraph from
Deb Riechmann's AP story last night about Dubya's stop on the Neverending Social Security Roadtrip in upstate New York [
emphasis added]:
GREECE, N.Y. (AP) - President Bush, facing an uphill battle on Social Security in Congress, worked Tuesday to persuade moderate Republicans to resist pressure from constituents and support his ideas for changing the nation's retirement system.
Now ain't that just American democracy at its very finest? We wouldn't want our elected representatives to pay attention to what we ask them to do, now, would we?
I must acknowledge that I basically stole the idea for this diary directly from my near-neighbor Shaun Dale's excellent blog Upper Left. Shaun reads dKos, but (to my knowledge) doesn't post here. He's well worth your attention.