Kerry with Republican Congress

[classical liberal]

The same as with Clinton.  Except now the exuse Bush used to get a Republican senate, along with just who is up for reelection in the midterms, will probably win the senate and possibly the house for the Democrats.

[classical liberal]

Index retirement age to life expectancy retroactively to the SSA's inception.

[classical liberal]

When I said retroactively I meant make the age 105%percent of the current life expectancy.  FDR devised the program with a retirement age at 65 when life expectancy was at 62.

[classical liberal]

the part that got onto the recording did not specify that Kerry was talking about Reps.  His campaign has already denounced the efforts to make the comments seem to be personal attacks on the President.

[classical liberal]

Personally,
I think that there should be no "side of the isle" in congress.  The delegations should sit together, like they did in the first few congresses.  That's why the senate chamber has pairs of seats, one pair of seats per delegation.  If the delegations sat together, there might be a less partisan and more constituent-centric tone about the entire thing.