Democrats and Social Security

Sam Rosenfeld gets it right.

ON BUSH'S TERMS. As the President’s grand Solutions In Search of Problems Summit wraps up today with a panel on Social Security reform, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have issued a joint statement on the issue that, one supposes, sets the terms for the Democratic position in Congress, just as the Campaign for America's Future begins framing the issue for liberal interest groups. “Battle,” though, is not quite the word that comes to mind reading this:

"The President's economic summit should have been an opportunity to begin an honest discussion about strengthening and improving Social Security, and we have been encouraged to hear that the President would like to work on a bipartisan basis."

Let's see, what's missing here? Sam tells us:

What’s missing, above all else, is a strong and clear claim that this is a phony crisis -- something trumped up by the GOP. If the White House manages to win the argument that a real Social Security crisis exists, it seems likely that Democratic piddling over the details isn’t going to make any difference. Once there's agreement that something needs to be done to address a crisis, it'll be done on the president's terms.

We need to contact the Democratic "leaders" in the House and Senate to get their act together. When will these mindless fools learn that there is not a bipartisan bone in Bush's evil body.