""What about overhauling Social Security? Isn't that something conservative we all wanted done? The president tried that and the republican congress is the one that backed out on that.""
Here is where conservatives desperatly need a history lesson. No one should ahve thought that SS was going to be overhauled in 2005, it wasnt. Overhauling SS is a long process that will eventually occur.
In 1975 Roanld Reagan gave a speech on welfare reform, he was dismissed even by conservatives. In 1996, welfare reformed was signed into law by a Democrat President.
Right.. that's because Congress has never wanted to help things change for the better with initivates that are bold and need undertaking even against an American public that is scared because of misleading newspaper headlines.