Bush refusing to budge on private accounts …hopes to salvage policy on SS

[kskiska]

Bush refusing to budge on private accounts
He hopes to salvage unpopular policy on Social Security

Washington -- President Bush has gone from threatening Democratic lawmakers that they'll suffer politically for not supporting his Social Security overhaul to cajoling Republican lawmakers with promises of campaign help if they do.

Neither tactic is working. Bush's poll numbers continue to sink, driven in part by his plan to add private accounts and reduce benefits in the giant retirement program.

Democrats appear on the verge of scoring a huge political victory over Bush by defeating what had been the centerpiece domestic policy of his second term.

Bush's hopes of salvaging even small private accounts now rest entirely on the two Republican leaders of the committees in charge of Social Security: former college professor Rep. Bill Thomas of Bakersfield, the shrewd and unpredictable chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee who is a master of the tax code and entitlement programs, and blunt-spoken Iowa farmer Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

Both men face unbroken Democratic opposition and disagreement and resistance within their own party.

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[iconoclastic cat]

1. Strap yourself to that anvil, Shrubby.

[Beetwasher]

2. Haw Haw Haw Haw!!! What a Fucking Moron

Keep it up dumbass...

[AnneD]

12. That's 'moran'.....

to you. Let's keep the spelling correct so they can understand. That's it Dubya....keep hanging on to that third rail.

[ozymandius]

14. Morans to you too.

[BrainRants]

3. Butthead said it best: "Dumbass!" n/t

[cthrumatrix]

4. he doesn't hear well ---- we don't trust you--- raise the cap and

quit spending OUR soc sec contributions on the budget needs

[rocktivity]

5. Go, Chimpy, go! Rah rah rah!

Keep up that incompetence, greed, and stupidity! Alienate those moderates! Take your silver spoon and dig your grave! GO GO GO!!!


rocknation

[More Than A Feeling]

6. I wonder how long it will be before people just stop listening to him

He has been flailing about for so long that some might start to feel that if you want honest answers, or even the right questions, Bush isn't the man to go to.

It would be about time.

[izzie]

7. Hard to give in when you are sure you are right. And he -----

does seem to think he is always right, I guess it is sort of proof of how unsure he is of what he thinks.

[kodi]

8. stay the course, and go milk a horse, george

.

[wallwriter]

9. God says SS funds should be in private investment accounts...

I think it's in the New Testament somewhere. Right next to the passage about oil wells in Israel.

[MichiganVote]

10. Cuckoobananas is hoping to shove the blame on the Dem's

[Robeson]

11. Little Georgie has a hard time with the Reality Based World....

...its hard work being based in reality, its easier for him to live in a delusional World...

[mom cat]

13. Savings and loan scandal, retirement fund bankruptcies, stock market

bubble burst, housing market bubble about to burst, Social Security fund. The thing that all of these have in common is all of us hard working stiffs struggling to put money in places we bought were safe only to find the corporate elite rating the piggy banks and getting filthy rich. They want it all. Every last dime. They want to break us all down to the point where we are at the indentured servants beholden to the company store. We have to stand firm on this one.:grr:

[ninkasi]

15. Sadly, Mom Cat, I agree

There really seems to be no end to their greed. Having money enough to live like royalty for several lifetimes isn't enough. It's more than them just always wanting more, more, more, when they have so much now...they want to take every last cent away from the rest of us.

What do they lack in their souls, to be so filled with greed and drunk with power? Bush is a perfect example of that kind of thinking. They are destroying America more completely than 100 Osamas could have done.

[mom cat]

16. That is the aim....and to bring down anything that loks like

democracy...and replace it with "Freedom Fries": corporate freedom uber allis!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

17. That is what happens when spoiled little boys

who are never denied anything grow up...
They become spoiled little men who think they are entitled to everything.

[donco6]

18. Jeez, George, give it up already!

The SS thing is dead as a doornail.

[Demeter]

19. Give a Thief Enough Rope

and he'll tie himself in knots. Way to go, Bush! May all your plots fare as well!