NY TIMES...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 - President Bush's plan for overhauling Social Security, the centerpiece of his second-term domestic agenda, met with a cool reception Thursday on Capitol Hill, where some influential Republicans expressed skepticism and all but one of the Senate's 44 Democrats vowed to oppose any proposal that increases the federal deficit.
As Mr. Bush traveled to North Dakota to begin a five-state tour to sell his idea for personal retirement accounts, the Democrats engaged in a bit of political theater of their own, trekking across town to the memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Social Security's creator, to denounce the White House plan.
There, they unveiled a letter calling any proposal that would boost the deficit "immoral, unacceptable and unsustainable." Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, whose heavily Republican state is on Mr. Bush's itinerary, was the only Democrat who did not sign.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/04/politics/04cong.html
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