Democrats are not obsessed with Schiavo, but with stopping what Republicans are trying to do with the country.

I have been thinking deeply (for me anyway) about this lately, namely do the Dems and especially their supporters have any real force/effect/clout on what will happen to the balance of power in this country, or will that balance depend on something else!  Some folks talk about the pendulum effect on political moods/ideas, and that if you wait long enough, the pendulum will almost always go the other way.  Why would that be? If the most utopian political culture took over, would that pendulum effect still drive their ideas out of power, and again if so, why?

Has anyone posted anything on this material from The Center for Public Integrity?  This is so typical of Ridge and all this administration.  Rules are for other folks, not them!

Senator Rick Santorum is going around PA to many sites, but especially to college campuses, to show the need for social security reform.  His first such talk yesterday at Duquesne University was on local cable TV.  I think it is critical for supporters of the current SS concept to understand clearly what the Repubs are trying to do and have simple to understand, realistic, and appealing solutions to their tactics.

A complete and well done (polished) presentation of the Repub position can be found at the following Repub SS site.  As for Santorums talk, I will refer to the title of slides in my discussion below, and these slides can be found at the following Santorum website.  I can only refer to the specific slide because these are PDF files, and I don't know if I could insert them directly in a blog diary?