Tuesday, March 1, 2005
GOP Senator: Social Security Privatization Scheme Is In Trouble...
I could've told him this awhile ago. The more people know about Bush's scheme, the less they like it...
Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the chairman of the Finance Committee, said Monday that if public opinion did not soon begin to swing in favor of President Bush's Social Security plan, it would be an indication that the plan was in trouble.
After a meeting with the other Republicans on his committee, Mr. Grassley repeated to reporters what he has been saying for weeks - that the success or failure of the plan depended on whether the president could persuade voters at the grass roots that the Social Security system was in jeopardy and that his approach was the right way to fix the problem.
Another interesting tidbit:
No Social Security legislation can get through the Senate without bipartisan support, Mr. Grassley said, and he acknowledged that Democrats were now united against the Republican proposal.
Without naming names, he said he knew of "four or five Democrats that feel they ought to be sitting down with Republicans and working with Republicans" on the issue. "Right now," he conceded, "none of them are hot on private accounts."
Ooooooh! He said the P-word!!! I'm telling!!!
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