Is it really possible that the Republican Congress in 2006, during a Republican administration, could set these wheels in motion? From the Democrats one might expect this sort of myopic infantile pandering, but from the Republicans? Aside from the Iraq invasion and the climate change issue, what most disappoints me about the Bush administration and his Congress (2000-2006) is that they adopted so many of the worst habits of the Democrats--this is merely one of many examples. I suppose the most notorious instance remains Bush's vast new Medicare entitlement program (the costs of which his people criminally and, I believe, intentionally underestimated when trying to push it through Congress). But this, working toward a new quota system in our university science departments, this is as much as to stab a vital organ necessary to the life of American competitiveness in economic and military spheres.
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