Hoyer whipping the GOP -29 repubs on list against bush SS plan

[Rose Siding]

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Given the GOP’s 14-vote margin in the House, Hoyer reasons that Republicans will need to initiate a more serious conversation with Democrats if they are nursing any hopes of passing a plan this session.

Hoyer’s cross-aisle whipping is indicative of the Democrats’ swelling confidence that the Social Security debate cuts in their favor and tracks with Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel’s (D-Ill.) strategy. He has been attempting to brand vulnerable GOP lawmakers who appear open to the president’s proposal, despite their stated opposition to privatization, as “flip-floppers.”
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At his weekly gathering with reporters yesterday, Hoyer provided reporters with statements, drawn from press accounts, from 29 GOP lawmakers, with some of them voicing general opposition to “privatization” and others offering explicit rejections of “personal accounts.”

Hoyer said, “It has on here 29 names of individuals who have categorically said to their constituents we will not support privatization of Social Security, or personal accounts, or taking money out of Social Security.”

“If these 29 people were telling their constituents the truth, there are not the votes to pass the president’s outline,” he added.

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/021605/hoyer.html

[lancdem]

1. If it's true, this is great news

We absolutely must kill Bush's Social Security phase-out plan, or we can kiss a big part of FDR's legacy goodbye.

[rodeodance]

2. I applaus him--but no one really knows what the Bush 'plan' really is at

this moment in time. Best not count our chickies before they are hatched.

[moggie12]

3. This is good news - Bush losing the SS battle will be a watershed event

Apparently, Alan Greenspan raised some concerns about the privatization plan today in his sem-annual testimony before Congress -- that'll help the cause, too....

Bush and the right-wing nuts are experts at propaganda, however, so I think we still have to pull out all the stops and fight hard. If you haven't already signed this, take a look at the AFL-CIO's petition -- they're going after the Wall Street/corporate guys involved in the propaganda effort:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1599342

[KittyWampus]

4. Democrats OWN This Debate & It's Great To See Them Demonstrating

that they DO know how to kick ass properly.

[Toots]

5. If these Republicans were telling the truth..Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

Republicans would not know the truth if it were shoved down their throats. Hoyer should remember that Politicians LIE and not count his chickens just yet.

[Inland]

6. Yeah, we know how that goes.

[jjtss]

7. Yes, Virginia there is.......

Intelligence in the Republican Party. They hide it well most times.