NYT: Speech Gives Republicans Lift in Social Security Fight

[ailsagirl]

WTF is this crap????

:mad: :spank: :grr:

The New York Times
By ROBIN TONER and ELISABETH BUMILLER

Published: April 30, 2005

WASHINGTON, April 29 - House Republican leaders announced on Friday that they hoped to draft Social Security legislation by June, trying to demonstrate new energy behind President Bush's long-stalled initiative. Mr. Bush, a day after embracing a plan to restore the pension program's solvency by curtailing promised benefits for most future retirees, declared, "I'm confident we're going to get something done."

Mr. Bush ended his 60-day campaign to highlight the financial problems in Social Security with the public still skeptical about his approach, but he said he was confident the mood would shift: "The more they understand the nature of the problem, the more they're going to be saying to those of us who are serving, 'Go get it fixed.' "

But Mr. Bush's latest Social Security proposal, unveiled in a prime-time news conference on Thursday night, brought a firestorm of new criticism. Democrats asserted it would amount to deep cuts in benefits for most retirees and transform Social Security from a broad middle-class entitlement to a program aimed at the poor. AARP, the powerful lobby for older Americans, also dismissed the latest Bush proposal, with John C. Rother, policy director for the group, describing it as "an unnecessary and unfair benefit cut for the middle class."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/30/politics/30social.html

[Technowitch]

1. Typical NYT biased reporting, at a guess.

Judging from their prior reporting habits, this is no different.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Feh. Elizabeth Bumiller.

She's a reliable bushsucker. Wouldn't give a second thought to the crap she spews.

[ailsagirl]

5. Thanks, ocelot... that makes me feel better

Gads-- I thought pretty much everyone was united in declaring his little speech a disaster. As Malloy called it, "practically incoherent."

Except the freepers, of course, who posted things like:

"He looks good"
"Nice suit"

:puke:

So reminiscent of the debates when he made such a pathetic showing. Yet, amazingly, by morning it had transformed into a killer performance!!!!!

:grr:

[billbuckhead]

3. WTF?

:wtf: I don't even think Faux News said that.

[ailsagirl]

4. It's hot off the presses, as they say...

Suddenly everything is rosy for * and his SS plan??

I thought it had crashed and burned??

WTF indeed!!!

[billbuckhead]

6. The Fox News poll said faggedaboutdit!

There's so much money for the whores to make from this privatization scheme.

[RBHam]

7. Pathetically sycophantic...

Just imagine what Rove has on Blusmiller...

[teryang]

8. It's the "new improved" social security plan

Propaganda media including national public radio are lapping up this unadulterated bullshit.

NPR had a Heritage foundation "expert" explaining how "fair" it was.

[Demeter]

9. I Think It's Whistling Past the Graveyard

The GOP is going after Bush's Tar Baby, and with any luck, they will all get stuck to it.

Then we can turn up the juice on America's Third Rail and have a good old fashioned GOP barbeque!

[deacon2]

10. Elizabeth Bumiller - they installed turn signals on Bush's ass

so she wouldn't disappear up it. Give this the same weight as something you'd read in Reader's Digest - absolutely none.