[Racehorse]

But there is no real interior line of defense for Bush based on the merits and the numbers. Thus there isn't much prospect that he will turn it around.

You're right, I think.  Bush and team need to start talking first about program solvency, and then tout individual investment accounts.  Listening to the Whitehouse team, they come off as if they are trying to sell a half-baked, half-formed and incredible vague flicker of a plan.  The first question most people want to know is, how are you going to save the program?  Bush has failed to deliver the answer.

Thanks to a fellow poster, I've pretty signed on to support Congressman Paul Ryan's ideas.

[Kuksool]

I fear Bush may have given the RATS an unintentional PR victory. If the RATS win on social security, it would emboldened them to spread other lies such as the return of the Draft, minority voting rights repealed, and rising gas prices are GOP funbdraising schemes.