[DManA]

Starts out sounding sensible. Then he starts sounding like a fool: Because the fact is if he’ll do his homework he’ll find there is such a thing called the Social Security Trust fund, and the Social Security Trust fund will be able to pay seniors their checks for many months to come even if Congress does nothing.”

[quintr]

Even if he did try to withhold Social Security payments, surely he realizes that he would make as many Democrats upset with him as Republicans. I mean — does he really believe that only Republicans get Social Security checks?

And does he really want to lose the entire state of Florida, which is loaded with seniors?

If he does try to withhold Social Security payments, it would seem to me that it’s political suicide.

[henkster]

As soon as I heard the statement about “can’t promise we’ll issue social security checks” I knew we’d heard another lie. It’s for exactly the same reason you stated; Social Security is paid for by funds specifically collected for that purpose. This statement was just another heavy-handed Marxist scare tactic. Of course the media was all over that...NOT!

The problem is that Boehner doesn’t come right out and refute it as a lie, which it is.