Reply #1: Gee, another anonymous post that eliminates ALL credibility.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

Just like in the D.U. too!

Hey! I've got an idea! Why not submit this to the Gray Lady? Maybe you can get this posted in their op-ed?

In case anyone is actually interested in what the real DLC is saying about Social Security, here are a few articles for your perusal:

New Year, Old Problems

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Here at home, the president was forced last month to reassure jittery international financial markets that he would at some point in the near future deal with the increasingly dire fiscal situation of the federal government. Yet his political team is gearing up for a full-court, multimedia campaign to promote a partial privatization scheme for Social Security that will make that fiscal situation far worse, in no small part because Bush is taking the pain-free approach of promising future retirees they can stay in the old system with full benefits even as a portion of the payroll tax that finances it is diverted into private accounts.

And if there was any doubt whatsoever that the GOP intends to govern without any real gestures towards compromise or bipartisanship (other than the bogus bipartisanship of demanding total surrender), it has been laid to rest by the president's contemptuous decision to resubmit all the judicial nominations he was forced to abandon in the last Congress.

At the Summit of Economic Incoherence

There won't be any real discussion of the federal budget deficit this administration has engineered, or of the one-to-two-trillion-dollar transitional costs associated with Bush's free-lunch, defer-the-benefits-cuts approach to Social Security reform. There won't be any acknowledgment of the GOP's determination to permanently shift the burden of self-government from wealth to work. And given the White House's continuing inability to admit any mistakes, there certainly will be no admission of the fundamental weaknesses and vulnerabilities of the U.S. economy that have accompanied a relatively weak business cycle recovery.

Many of the private-sector participants in the summit appear to have been chosen for their robust financial support of the Bush-Cheney campaign. "This is payback time for Bush contributors," conservative economist Bruce Bartlett told the Los Angeles Times. "They get invited to a White House conference. They get to pretend they have some influence. They get their picture taken with the president. That's it."

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