Bush has mandate for Social Security plan, Cheney says [View All]

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - In an interview Tuesday, Vice President Dick Cheney said the Bush re-election victory provided a mandate "for the notion of personal retirement accounts" and that Democrats would pay a political price among younger voters if they blocked them.
...
But he rejected the idea that private accounts would be dead politically if they're not approved this year.

"I wouldn't say that. We want to do everything we can to move it as soon as we can. But we're going to be here for four years. And this president's very tenacious. I've seen him operate before. And he's not a man who takes no for an answer," said Cheney, who is about to assume a more public role in the debate as the White House tries to build popular support for its proposal to restructure the huge entitlement program and offer individual retirement accounts.
...
The vice president also suggested that Democrats, united now in opposition, are mishandling the issue. Cheney cited reports that some Democratic strategists, including former Clinton adviser James Carville, are warning that party members must do more than oppose private accounts - that they should more openly acknowledge the system's problems and offer their own alternative solutions.

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/politics/11084357.htm