[LS]

You are flat wrong. First, Bush has issued three quiet but very important Ex Orders that have reversed 20 years worth of abortion rulings. One had to do with abortions on military bases. Just this week, the "privacy" reversal said that teens who went to a hospital for an abort had to have their parents notified. There was a third I can't recall, but I noted it when it happened.

Second, you are TOTALLY off on the significance of the welfare reform bill. Food stamps was a virtually meaningless part of it. The critical issue, which Bush is actually strengthening, is the end to AFDC, which broke up families. By combining that with "faith based," he has actually improved the GOP 1995 welfare bill.

[FITZ]

is the end to AFDC

I consider all the handout programs ---SSI, foodstamps, WIC, Medicaid, free health clinics and hospitals, CHIPS, Headstart, free daycare, TANF and all the many others welfare. Just ending or renaming them doesn't get the people out there working or have girls stop having babies out of wedlock. It seems now we're going to be taxed to provide a 50% increase in global welfare programs.