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A party of one.


Recently on Jim Lehrer's "News Hour," during the Brooks/Shields segment, David Brooks David Brooks is the name of:
  • David Brooks (journalist) (born 1961), commentator for The New York Times and other publications
  • David Brooks (politician) (1756–1838), United States representative in the Fifth United States Congress
, in contending that the Republicans were much more flexible on Social Security reform than the Democrats, said that they were willing to raise the payroll tax Payroll Tax

Tax an employer withholds and/or pays on behalf of their employees based on the wage or salary of the employee. In most countries, including the U.S., both state and federal authorities collect some form of payroll tax.
 on incomes over $90,000. After Brooks had repeated this point several times, Mark Shields Mark Shields (born May 25, 1937 in Weymouth, Massachusetts) is an American political pundit who appears frequently on CNN and PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer as a liberal commentator.

Shields graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1959.
 leaned over and said, "Who are they?" Brooks sheepishly sheep·ish  
adj.
1. Embarrassed, as by consciousness of a fault: a sheepish grin.

2. Meek or stupid.



sheep
 answered, "Bush and Lindsey Graham." Since on this issue Bush has been ambivalent at best, that leaves a "they" of one.
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Title Annotation:Tilting at Windmills; Social Security reform
Author:Peters, Charles
Publication:Washington Monthly
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Apr 1, 2005
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