Frist gives second opinion, SS privitization DOA

First it was Bush's lap dog in the House, Dennis Hastert, who said there was no hurry to tackle Social Security Reform. Now Steve Soto at the Left Coaster reports that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has jumped ship.

On Social Security, for his part, Frist tended to agree with recent comments by House Speaker Denny Hastert Friday that there wasn’t a need to rush ahead with the president’s plan to privatize Social Security.

Mr. Rove, this is known as losing control of your own agenda.

So now another key weekend has gone by with no new momentum from the GOP to support Bush's plan, and in fact it can be argued that with Hastert and now Frist in the "go slow" camp, Bush is losing the urgency argument hands down. Which is why the Democrats should keep pounding away on both Social Security and Medicare by pointing out which special interests the GOP is serving by cutting Social Security benefits and rejecting cost controls for Medicare.

But his handlers still have Georgie Boy out there talking it up. That "political capitol" is looking more like "mission accomplished" all the time.