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(Archived document, may contain errors) POLICY, IDEOLOGY, AND PRAGMATISM IN THE REAGAN REVOLUTION

"We must hang together, gentlemen," Benjamin Franklin warned his fellow colonists during the American Revolution, "else, we shall most assuredly hang separately."

Welcome aboard, Alan Greenspan. In congressional testimony just a year ago, the Federal Reserve chairman urged Congress to make the president's 2001 tax cuts permanent and asked lawmakers to slash government spending as much as possible. He also said they should cut back the increases in Social Security benefits they're promising to future retirees.

Some years back, a newspaper comic strip showed lemmings running toward a cliff. One said to another, "Don't worry, this was a bipartisan decision."

Imagine a profession where you're expected to be an expert on criminal procedure, congressional redistricting, wetlands regulation, abortion and war -- among other topics. Well, welcome to the world of a federal justice.