Sunday, February 26, 2006

Conservative dishonesty, Fred Barnes, social security

Witness his Weekly Standard (of 03/06/2006) article on the weekystandard.com website.
His opening paragraph:

Like few presidents before him, President Bush was poised for a consequential and potentially quite successful second term. It hasn't worked out that way (so far). Bush made one strategic error in 2005, guessing wrongly that the country was adult and serious enough to reform Social Security. Now he faces at least two immediate challenges: immigration and the Dubai ports flap.

Social security reform Bush-style failed because as a nation, we're not "adult and serious enough".

It's not because the serious adults in the nation considered the plan and rejected it.

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