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[november3rd]

William Raspberry of the WaPo has a fix on which http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50122-2005Jan30.html">way the wind is blowing around this SOTU on Wednesday.

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It is important, says Edelman (who quit the Clinton administration in a protest against the push to radically downsize public assistance), not to look at this budget program by program but at the thoroughgoing reordering of the government's role. He sees it as a major advance of the goal articulated by the influential conservative Grover Norquist of shrinking government "to the size where you could drown it in a bathtub."

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I first saw the story in The Stakeholder, http://blog.dccc.org/mt/archives/002045.html">Reform of Fundamental Systems.