Promoting a "dead horse"

WaPo:

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) predicted yesterday that partisan warfare over Social Security will quickly render President Bush's plan "a dead horse" and called on Congress to undertake a broader review of the problems of an aging nation.

Encouraging...

*UPDATE* Even more encouraging, Harry Reid's response:

"The president's plan is a 'dead horse' not because of partisan politics, but because it is a privatization plan based on massive benefit cuts, risky Wall Street accounts and $2 trillion in new debt," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "It will undermine Social Security at a time when we should be looking to strengthen the program and help Americans save."

Reid also made much of Thomas' remarks on gender adjustment, charging that "Republicans are aiming to push even deeper cuts for America's women."