Social Security rehab died first under Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, impeachment ended his overhaul...

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/11/5 | Carolyn Lochhead

[SmithL]

Another blown opportunity.

[dirtboy]

Another blown opportunity.

Yet another stain on Clinton's legacy. Social Security reform was close, but no cigar. It just wasn't in the Starrs.

[pookie18]

Rush read some/all of this today on his radio show...thanks for posting it.

[Vaquero]

"Yet another stain on Clinton's legacy. Social Security reform was close, but no cigar. It just wasn't in the Starrs." I understand the Clinton liked his cigars dipped in cider.

[dirtboy]

I understand the Clinton liked his cigars dipped in cider.

He likes them on the tart side.

[Bommer]

Wrong its A) Harry Reid. Clinton was all talk and no do!

[hflynn]

Listen, anyone or anything under Lewinsky had a very good chance of dying.

[dead]

Answer: D – Monica Lewinsky

Naturally, she acted alone.

[lilylangtree]

"It's kind of the Nixon-goes-to-China theory," Stenholm said. "It takes a Democrat to do some of the hard choices in social programs."

Yeah, right! (sarc)

[GailA]

Knowing slick willie as we do can you doubt he'd of fixed it by raising the age for retiring and adding more taxes to SS?

[BenLurkin]

The Bent One's only successes came when he adopted parts of The Contract With America and later took credit for what the congressional Republicans had conceived.

[BenLurkin]

The Bent One's only successes came when he adopted parts of The Contract With America and later took credit for what the congressional Republicans had conceived.

[BenLurkin]

The Bent One's only successes came when he adopted parts of The Contract With America and later took credit for what the congresional Republicans had conceived.

[nj26]

Well, better that private accounts weren't started at the height of the stock market boom. Imagine if the funds had been invested at 2000 prices.

[dirtboy]

Well, better that private accounts weren't started at the height of the stock market boom. Imagine if the funds had been invested at 2000 prices.

They'd still be worth much more than the assets in the so-called Social Security Trust Fund.

[MoodyBlu]

Knowing slick willie as we do can you doubt he'd of fixed it by raising the age for retiring and adding more taxes to SS?

Any plan that Bush signs will also raise the age and no doubt lift the current $90K cap, a tax increase. There will most likely be some means testing and hopefully a change away from wage indexing as well.

We shall see but like someone said above, only an honest democrat could get meaningful SS reform. A Republican will get killed by the media as we see what's happening now.

MoodyBlu

[knarf]

All President Bush has to do is start calling it the Clinton Plan ... and I-gar-own-tee-you bubba, we'd hear no more from the dims.

[CyberAnt]

Looks like somebody was listening to Rush this morning.

[SmithL]

Nope! I don't get Rush in my corner of the planet.