Dems: GOP again targets Social Security (and CO Sen. race)

[rodeodance]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1153AP_Democrats_Social_Security.html

Saturday, September 23, 2006 · Last updated 8:43 a.m. PT

Dems: GOP again targets Social Security

By JENNIFER TALHELM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON --......

"We can and must stop them - right now, before it's too late," Ed Perlmutter said in the Democrats' weekly radio address. "Just last year, Democrats stood up to President Bush and the Republicans in Congress, and fought back against this dangerous proposal and defeated it."

Perlmutter, a former Colorado state senator, faces Republican Rick O'Donnell in a fierce contest for a House seat being vacated by Rep. Bob Beauprez, a Republican running for governor.

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Instead of looking out for taxpayers' interests, Republicans "are sending billions of dollars to special interests in giveaways that taxpayers are paying for," he said.

"There has never been a more critical moment to ensure that we take our nation in a new direction," Perlmutter said.

Perlmutter, 53, has made Social Security a key issue in his race because his opponent, O'Donnell, wrote a paper in 1995 that advocated "slaying" the benefits program. O'Donnell, 36, has since enrolled his mother in Social Security and proposes that experts start from scratch to identify a permanent fix.

[bronxiteforever]

1. every Democratic party candidate for federal office should force

the gop candidate to state for the record their position to maintain social security and not vote for private accounts. Our party should trumpet the lock box of Gore and fully fund social security like the requirements of private pension funds-stop the gop thievery!!! K & R

[lovuian]

2. The more the GOP go after Social Security the lower the

polls

[Ignacio Upton]

3. That's a House race, not a Senate race

Also, Democrats MUST make Social Security privatization a national issue. Bush and his surrogates (including Paulson and Boehner) have said that they want to try AGAIN in 2007! And Michael Steele, Mike McGavick, Rick Santorum, Conrad Burns, Jim Talent, Mike DeWine, Tom Kean Jr. have all said that they support privatization! The DSCC, DCCC, and DNC need to do more than to print out press releases detailing the GOP candidates' stances on privatization; they need to BOMBARD people's tv's with ads!

[tabasco]

4. The robber barons slobber when they think about looting SS.

Why do they feel entitled to steal our SS money?

[AnneD]

5. for the same reason

they feel 'entitled' to go after their oil under Iraqi soil, their timber on our public lands. They are just entitled.