The Hammer



Here's Charles Krauthammer's most recent analysis of the "debate" on Social Security. As mentioned before, he seems to believe that the Democrats' strategy of criticizing Bush and offering no substantive proposal of their own may work in the short term (meaning 2006):

"This is about as fair and progressive a plan as you can find. Even the inveterately, reflexively, often apoplectically anti-Bush Michael Kinsley expressed admiration -- and indeed puzzlement that the president would offer it without any prospect of short-term political advantage.

Leave the quest for short-term political advantage to the Democrats. They have finally gotten a Republican president to openly propose "cuts" in Social Security and they intend to win seats in 2006 running all-out against them."

The Democrats seem so confident in their agenda of criticizing anything Bush (whether it's social security, taxes, the war or judges), that they have honed their political arguments to a single word.

Posted: Sat - May 7, 2005 at 12:07 PM          

©