■ Okay, they’ve bought our presidency, stolen our nuclear secrets, and menaced Taiwan—but they can’t beat our women’s soccer team. Rah.
■ Is George W. Bush starting to take conservative support for granted? Three recent signs point that way. First his spokeswoman, Karen Hughes, waffled on the minimum wage. Then the Wall Street Journal reported that Bush would cut taxes only after funding Social Security, Medicare, and the military. “If there is any money left over, it ought to be returned to the people,” said Bush, in a formulation indistinguishable from President Clinton’s. And in Iowa, Bush called for “disaster relief” for farmers, the disaster being low prices. (To be fair, he also sensibly urged free trade in agriculture as a longer-term solution for farmers’ difficulties.) We do hope W. isn’t going to start standing for “wobbly.”
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