I see you've crawled out from under the Murrysville rock once again.
The public has NOT rejected privitization. Unless your position is that people really want to be taxed out their ass?
No action, like you espouse, is the kiss of death for the Ponzi scheme known as Social Insecurity.
Bush is absolutely correct to believe that that kind of battering-ram repetition strategy has worked well for him in the past. The problem is that it doesn't make for a particulalry limber stategery when the hard sell doesn't gain him any ground at all, as in the Social Security fight, and consequently he ends up in a rut with little by way of exit strategy.
Republican politicians in Congress must love Bush for his latest series of gaffes.