I like Fred Barnes a lot. My favorite FOX News show is Special Report with Brit Hume. When Brit Hume or Fred Barnes isn't there, it's a disappointment to me. If Charles Krauthammer is, that is a good consolation. I like CK also.
From the article:
Mr. Bush's agenda is post-Reagan in its conservatism, which means it's more far-reaching and thus more threatening to the establishment. Mr. Bush would not only reform Social Security and allow individuals to invest a portion of their payroll taxes in financial markets, he would also revamp the entire federal tax code and fill the Supreme Court with judicial conservatives. And those are only his domestic plans. In foreign affairs, Mr. Bush would make aggressive efforts to spread democracy around the world the centerpiece. The foreign policy élite is aghast.
From the start of his first term, Mr. Bush has been immune to the blandishments of the establishment. When Reagan came to Washington in 1980, he made a point of attending a welcoming party at the home of the late Katherine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post. It signified his desire for cordial relations with the establishment. Reagan mostly got along fine, while still pursuing policies (tax cuts, fervent anti-communism) frowned on in Washington. His wife Nancy became his ambassador to the establishment. If Mr. Bush had an ambassador, it was Secretary of State Colin Powell, and he's leaving the administration.
You tell 'em, Fred!!
