Gaming the Social Security issue

[Walt Starr]

Remember back in Clinton's first term? Everything bad in the world was going to ahppen if "Hillarycare" passed and Clinton's healthcare proposal became an albatross hung around his neck. Ads terrified the public of what would happen if healthcare reform passed.

We have to do the same to Bush over his plan to dismantle Social Security, and polls show we have the right stuff here. If Democrats can keep pounding on this and framing it as "dismantling Social Security", we could actually take back Congress in 2006 because we could nationalize the election over this albatross Bush has hung around his own neck!

[ewagner]

1. Agree 100%

We need to start educating the public now...we need to do it before BUSH* does......

another post quoted a WH spokesman saying that Bush* hasn't begun to "educate" the public yet......

but the Social Security "War Room " is open.

look out..... here it comes..........

[papau]

2. I agree - I'd actually like to see 401k private accounts absorb payroll

tax excess generated by total wage cap removal - since this would increase savings and be good for the economy.

But then Hillary care would have been good for the economy.

Universal child care would have been good for the economy.

But this is politics - and the 1994 screwing we got is now set up to get the GOP in 06 if we just do not cave on private accounts.

Will some Dems trade what is good for the country - total wage cap removal w/ private accounts - for the political gains that are certain in 2006? I do not know.

I do know that if a partial wage cap removal - say the raise to $200,000 that seems on the table - is all they can get - then screw those Dems that agree.

:-)

[Walt Starr]

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