Reid: Not a single Dem Senator will support Bush's privatization of SS!

[flpoljunkie]

Kudos to the Dems!

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_01_30.php#004621

Key passages from the early afternoon update from CQ Today that has the Hill atwitter ...

Not a single Senate Democrat will support President Bush’s proposal to divert a portion of the Social Security payroll tax to personal investment accounts, Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Tuesday.

If he is right, Bush’s plan will be dead on arrival in the Senate, where a supermajority of 60 votes will be needed to overcome a filibuster by opponents. Republicans have 55 seats.

“We want to make sure that the American people understand that we’re not for benefit cuts and we’re not for privatization,” Reid said. “There’s no crisis in Social Security.”

Reid said he had private commitments from all 44 Senate Democrats that they would not support diverting payroll tax revenues into private accounts, the key facet of Bush’s plan. The Democratic staff on the Senate Finance Committee has come to the same conclusion, based on polling Democratic members and their staffs.

[wryter2000]

1. Awriiiiiiiight!

You go, Dems!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. Thanks for the good news today

the whining from others gets tiresome.

[flpoljunkie]

3. Indeed, it does.

[papau]

4. :-)

:-)

[xultar]

5. SS longer effects than Gonzales maybe that is the trade-off n/t

[Beaverhausen]

6. I hear the SOTU is going to be all about Social Security

So this should make * really mad.

Good.

[moggie12]

7. Dems stickin' together -- fantastic... n/t

[Inland]

8. Have all the democrats committed to a filibuster?

[flpoljunkie]

16. You can count on it. Dems will go to the wall to protect SS from Dubya's

disingenuous schemes to "protect Social Security." Their aim is to destroy the program and relieve the government of the burden of paying back all the money borrowed from the Social Security Trust Fund to finance Dubya's tax cuts for the rich and his "spreading of democracy" through unilateral, unnecessary wars in the Middle East.

Only a Rethug president, propped by the corrupt, corporate lapdog press could escape being put in a straight jacket for what Bush has done and proposes to do.

[LSparkle]

9. I won't believe anything Reid guarantees

I get the sinking feeling our reps are just stringing us along, making us THINK they're going to stand up for a change.

[Walt Starr]

10. Yeah, but will they filibuster?

No?

Ooops, Nevermind.

[Beaverhausen]

11. I think many Repubs will vote against it too

[EVDebs]

12. Looks like raising the cap from $90,000 to $120,000 could go even higher !

And that would 'fix' the system without even creating private accounts, that Wall Street wants to 'churn' with.

The wealthiest amongst us, as David Cay Johnston's book "Perfectly Legal" points out in Chapter 8, are having their social security subsidized by Joe Sixpack. Those days are OVER. Republicans need to start looking out for average citizens...Dems already learned that lesson.

[Dr Fate]

13. We need this unity on EVERY issue...

...especially on exposing the media's Swiftboat tactics.

[despairing optimist]

14. This news made my day, week, year!

Hope he's not leading us on. It's time for the other side to back down, for a change. Make that, for NO change.

[aquart]

15. Is this why they caved on Gonzales?

Because they only have one fight in them?

[liveoaktx]

17. Good! Nice to see the Dems acting as a unified OPPOSITION party

[Guaranteed]

18. ABSOLUTELY...FUCKING...BEAUTIFUL.

We're gonna take this SHIT and ram it straight back up Bush's ASS.

[candy331]

19. The Republicans pay handsomely to defectors, so has bribery also been

discussed with the Dem Senators.