Ambitious Goals Will Test GOP's New Muscle(SS destruction/tax code 1st up)

[papau]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gop23nov23.story

Ambitious Goals Will Test GOP's New Muscle
By Janet Hook Times Staff Writer November 23, 2004

WASHINGTON — Republicans may have picked up only a handful of seats in Congress on election day, but they have been acting ever since as if they'd been carried by a conservative landslide.

Emboldened Republicans have strengthened the hand of their conservative leadership and have brought moderate colleagues to heel. In last week's postelection session of Congress, they jammed an antiabortion rider into the last budget bill of the year.

And Republican leaders, apparently undeterred by the fact that they still will have a relatively narrow majority when the new Congress opens in January, embraced President Bush's ambitious second-term agenda of overhauling Social Security and the tax code.

"My fellow conservatives, we have waited our entire lives for the chance the American people have given us in the next two years," a triumphant House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) said in a recent speech to a conservative group. "I pledge to each and every one of you, we will seize it."<snip>

[Dhalgren]

1. This is war.

Plain and simple.

[Straight Shooter]

2. I think "emboldened" is entirely the wrong word

I think "Hitlerized" is much more descriptive.

Seize this, Delay!:nuke: