As private accounts lose favor in polls, GOP scrambles

[Contrary1]

It's gonna be fun watching shrub trying not to get pissy in public about this.

"WASHINGTON - As a new round of polls showed public support waning for President Bush's plans to dramatically change Social Security, Republicans attacked the AARP and Democrats on the issue Wednesday, struggling to rekindle enthusiasm for the president's call for private investment accounts...."

More... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7067242/

Poll: Who do you trust most on the issue of Social Security?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7068949/

[applegrove]

1. Don't let Rove near the guy with the briefcase & the nuclear codes.

[fob]

2. I like how they split the anti-bush* vote with a three way poll

Who do you trust with SS

bush* 23%

Congressional Democrats 41%

AARP 37%


And since that's 101% I GEAR-ON-TEE they gave the extra 1% to shrubnuts*.

[Glenda]

3. Does the AARP regret not fighting the medicare bill, I wonder?

Maybe they learned their lesson with that

[Skidmore]

4. A couple of days ago, I heard a snippet of Weedspeak in which the

Weed himself was boasting SS being the Third Rail, and "I touched it". I hope he gets scorched good. Couldn't happen to a nicer jerk.

[xchrom]

5. they've dragged greenspan out now -- and he's urging

faster action on social security.
last week -- or something like that -- he thought going slow on private accounts was a good idea -- this week -- go faster and no word about going slow on private accountss.

we haven't seen the last of what ever the gop is going to do regarding the busting up of social security.

[demgrrrll]

6. I think they have overplayed the Greenspan hand. He has gone

to bat for them too many times on other issues that have not worked out well.

[Frances]

7. Greenspan said that the U.S. had enough money to fund

tax cuts for the top 1% of U.S. citizens,

but now he says the U.S. doesn't have enough money to pay social security.

Wow!