Health and Security Overhaul Is Underway

GOP fast tracking health accounts for the well-off.

Probably the last Democratic president who held views roughly similar to President Bush's was Grover Cleveland in the late 19th century. Cleveland embodied the resistance to activist government that dominated the Democratic Party through its first century and fuels the GOP today. But Bush and the GOP try to play up weak links to Democratic Presidents.

GOP has wanted to privatize Social Security for years. All that government mandated gambling with their supporters getting 'the vig'.