Alan Simpson Resignation Roundup

[deminks]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/08/alan-simpson-resignation-roundup/62132/

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North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Elaine Marshall, on Thursday:

"Alan Simpson's remarks were disrespectful to women and to social security recipients. He should resign or the President should fire him," Marshall said, speaking at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte.

"The fact that he thinks this way shows that he can't do his job with an open mind. We should be doing everything in our power to strengthen and protect Social Security, not attacking the recipients who depend on it."


New York Democratic Congressman Jerrold Nadler, on Thursday:

We cannot trust the integrity of any product or recommendations of the Commission as long as former Senator Simpson is the Chairman. His insulting and outrageous comments reveal his own mistaken belief that Social Security is a) in crisis, b) about to collapse, and c) contributes to the deficit. None of this is true. In fact, the Social Security Trust Fund has a $2.5 trillion dollar surplus, and it will be able to pay 100 percent of benefits through 2037, according to the Social Security Board of Trustees. What's more, Social Security has not contributed at all to the federal deficit. It is well known that Simpson has tried time and again over the years to raise the retirement age and cut Social Security benefits, and he makes no attempt to disguise his goals and attitude toward Social Security in his most recent comments.

Furthermore, Simpson demonstrated a total disrespect for women and an unjustifiably contemptuous attitude toward Ashley Carson, Executive Director of the Older Women's League. His comments were offensive, ignorant, and misleading, and he should be fired immediately.

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Dissolve the whole Catfood Commission. Now.

[Poboy]

1. K&R

[Poboy]

2. More, surely, to come.

OWL-affiliated National Council of Women's Organizations, in a petition circulated Wednesday:

Social Security Works Executive Director Eric Kingston, on Wednesday:

AARP, saying the remarks undermine the fiscal commission, on Wednesday:

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, on Wednesday:

North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Elaine Marshall, on Thursday:

New York Democratic Congressman Jerrold Nadler, on Thursday:

The Strengthen Social Security coalition, in a petition circulated on Thursday:

More, surely, to come.

[femrap]

3. I am calling the WH

again tomorrow.

:mad: :grr: :nuke:

[femrap]

4. I am calling the WH

again tomorrow.

:mad: :grr: :nuke:

[Bitwit1234]

5. I wish I had saved a copy of the email I sent to the white house

I was mad as hell and ask Obama what gave him the right to accept an apology that was aimed as women and seniors. I called him a republican pretending to be a Democrat and that he had to show us he wasn't one. I told him republicans hate him and would never vote for him and that he kiss republican butt trying to appease them. That he has to show us that he is a Democrat and that he is working for us. And I told him about the 2.5 billion in I.O.U.'s the country owes the Social Security Fund. That Reagan stole from it to balance the budget and Bush stole from it to make WAR. That it was his job to tell the country that and to also tell them that the government owes those billions and that the people who paid into social security are not the same as welfare. And I told him twice that I am waiting for a reply and want him to explain his republican actions. And that instead of republicans he needed Democrats to get re-elected and he better remember that.

[Historic NY]

6. Mr. Potus send the old fool packing..he hasn't changed his spots.

[MrMickeysMom]

7. Dear Mr. Simpson...

Die, please.

Thank you.

[indepat]

8. Simpson was just the man, the person of the RW ideological bent wanted, for this hatchet-job

on social security. :P

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Now Now...

Your Social Security is a small price to pay for "Bipartisanship" with political terrorists.