While the president was glad-handing those cussed Europeans, America's lawmakers were in their districts, taking the political temperature on George Bush's top domestic priority: Social Security reform. Both Democrats and Republicans had strict instructions from their leaders. Equipped with snazzy PowerPoint presentations and a video of Mr Bush, Republicans were to argue the case for private accounts. Democrats were to point out that the pension system's problems were not as dire as Mr Bush suggested, and could be fixed with more modest changes. So far, the opposition is more energised.
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