The Democrat's plan

The Dem platform on Social Security has always been solvency and not dismantling. Until we get a majority in office, there's not a lot to talk about. Introducing legislation that has zero chance of passing through a republican-controlled Congress and House is stupid. It will only give the right-wing time ot build their bullshit arguments and wall of lies.

Some of the solutions include raising taxes, or at the very least, returning to pre-Bush tax numbers. Those are not the kind of evening news soundbites that the Left can win hearts and minds with. You know it and I know it.

Make no mistake about it, Bush won on the fear platform. They were supposed to protect us from the terrorists. No surprise then that they've decided not to report that worldwide terror has gone UP (doubled?) under their leadership. They made terror the defining issue of the campaign. No one in the White House is talking about the 11 Americans killed over the weekend. Wonder why.

Now, Bush has made Social Security the most important thing on his agenda. It is the Democrat's job to call him on his bullshit. Some pundits on the Right say the Left needs to present their ideas, but fail to call Bush to the floor to do the same. His entire privatization roadtrip has been personal accounts-this and personal accounts-that wih no concrete proposal in place. The only detail he gave out last week is that anyone making over $20,000 is going to get their benefits cut.

Doesn't sound like such a great plan to me.