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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

A lead balloon

People loved Rick Santorum's presentations on Social Security so much, they often booed and jeered him.

Meanwhile, I say bits of Dem. Steny Hoyer's presentation on Social Security in Maryland today. He did very well for himself, pointing out that payments for the working class will be cut in the future so Bush's rich friends, the top 1%, could have a tax cut now. He called this passing of the buck immoral.

I also got him telling the audience that Bush was wrong when he described private accounts as "like the Thrift Savings account" because those investments were in addition to Social Security not in place of it.

He seemed well received.

And over at MyDD, they note Republican's chanted "Hey Hey, Ho, Ho, Social Security has got to go." Make a nice commercial clip, wouldn't it?