To see what choices welfare reformers will embrace, we only have to examine the preferences of their 19th-century counterparts.

Curb the Regulators, Shut Down Congress, Humiliate the President: This Is the Real Republican Contract

"The feeling on the left right now may be that we need to abandon our cultural focus and get seri­ous. I think we need to get serious about culture — as serious as we've ever been"

“As the New Dole dawns, we peer into our Kristol ball and see two years in Limbaugh with our Newtered president making ever more feeble attempts to recast himself as an old-fashioned TruMan.”

The pods that were so diligently planted are beginning to sprout.