Welcome to FreeRepublic. If the senate Republicans think that they are immune from acting on social security because they didn't mention it in their speeches they are wrong and they are playing games. The president, at the GOP convention, made it clear that Social Security reform was one of the top issues on his platform. As the leader of the majority Republican Senate and majority Republican House, I expect him and them to deliver. Otherwise, they can count on one less vote.
To suggest that Social Security reform - to include private accounts - isn't a Republican issue is to play a political game that I'm not interested in.
Most people don't actually take anything said at the conventions seriously, we should all know this by now. It's nothing more than scripted pageantry.
Like it or not, SS privatization is a LOSING ISSUE, and given that the future of this country (judicial appointments) will be settled within the next 10 years, we do not need to give the Democrats any ammunition
It is much better for the country for us to wait on this and get our judges passed, then for us to push it so that the Democrats can beat us by scaring the elderly and get their judges passed.