TPM: Here, There And Back Again: Sharron Angle's Circular Journey On Phasing Out Social Security

[sinkingfeeling]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/here-there-and-back-again-sharron-angles-circular-journey-on-phasing-out-social-security.php

Sharron Angle has taken a long, winding journey on Social Security -- only to end up back in the same place, at least in some respects. She started off calling for the program to be phased out, then scrambled to walk that position back, and is now kind of creeping back toward the original -- perhaps unintentionally. In many ways, Angle's motions on this big issue reflect the classic pattern of a political campaign: Go to extremes for the primary, and inch to the middle for the general election.

Back during the Republican primary, Angle famously said during a debate, "We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized," also adding: "I'm saying it can't be fixed, it's broken." She also said during a radio interview in May that the only room for argument was one of implementation and the timeline: "The idea of privatizing and getting out of Medicare and Social Security is not up for grabs."



Read the rest of the loony toon's shifting stance at the link.

[Skink]

1. What we need is a penal colony that we could ship these people off to.

[Demeter]

2. It's Called the District of Columbia

unfortunately