McClellan: Dems "simply put up a stop sign and say no to solving" SS

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

WTF?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050622/pl_nm/retirement_dc

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats said on Wednesday they would not be drawn into a White House "bait and switch" strategy on Social Security and insisted President Bush take private investment accounts off the table. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said Bush's insistence on individual investment accounts stood in the way of bipartisan negotiation over the retirement program's financial future.

"Until the president publicly takes private accounts off the table, bait and switch is still a real possibility," said Baucus. He said a flurry of new Social Security proposals by Republicans in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives were part of a "last gasp" effort to keep private accounts alive in the face of growing public opposition.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the Bennett proposal "calls the bluff" of Democrats. He said Bush still felt any permanent solution to overhauling Social Security needs to include personal retirement accounts.

"I think what the real question here is: Are Democratic leaders going to start coming forward with ideas and solutions or are they going to simply put up a stop sign and say no to solving this important priority for the American people?" McClellan said.

[ck4829]

1. Memo to McClellan: "Something tells us that destroying SS will not fix it"

from: Everybody with a Brain

[Cha]

2. Shut up, scatty!

The adults are talking.

Liar! It's bush who's trying to steal our SS..the Dems are trying to prevent the sneaky bush liar from doing his evil agenda!

Put that in you crack pipe and smoke it, scotty.

[Rude Horner]

3. I like how ....

they twist things to make it sound like this whole SS thing is something that the American people are asking for, when in reality most Americans don't consider this issue to be a priority.

It's like they say "The American people are demanding that we solve this crisis, and the Dems are standing in the way". Um...The American people are asking for this? Hmmm...seems to me that * is the one who's making this an issue.

[madrchsod]

4. what the fuck is their problem?

they control the senate and there are enough turn coat democrats to pass anything bush wants...so scotty what`s the problem?