Exit Strategy on Social Security Is Sought

[BurtWorm]

:evilgrin:

Republicans seem to want to exit from Bushland almost as much as we do!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/15/AR2005061502300.html

GOP Leaders Cite an Impasse With Democrats on Proposed Private Accounts

By Jonathan Weisman and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, June 16, 2005; Page A09

With the Senate Finance Committee at an impasse on Social Security and House leaders anxious about moving forward, Republican congressional leaders have told the White House in recent days that it is time to look for an escape route.

Senate GOP leaders, in discussions with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and political officials, have made it clear they are stuck in a deep rut and suggested it is time for an exit strategy, according to a senior Senate Republican official and Finance Committee aides.

[RalphReedsWreckedEm]

1. They bent over, and now we're gonna put it in

They failed, pure and simple. They overplayed their hand and now it's time for us to play for all it's worth - and then some.

This could finally be the trump card for 2006.