Anybody know what the Democrats’ position is on ensuring the long-term viability of social security? We know what Bush wants, though we need more details. And Congressman Bill Thomas has a few ideas, like making it gender-specific. But what do the Democrats want? That we can’t articulate it sums up the problem with da Dems. They have no position except to be opposed to Bush’s.
After I wrote the above paragraph, I thought maybe I had missed something. So I plugged in a few terms in Google and see if the da Dems really had a plan. Well, not unless they came up with one in the past two weeks, as E. J. Dionne made note of the absence of an SS policy in a column Jan. 7. They’re planning one apparently. Meanwhile, Bush’s view of the “crisis” continues to sink in, or perhaps better, just sinks.