Posted on 08/25/2010 2:02:05 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
Deficit Commission Co-Chair Apologizes for Calling Social Security 'A Milk Cow with 310 Million T*ts'; Feminist Groups Call for His Ouster
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Former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., the GOP co-chair of the president’s deficit commission, apologized today for sending an email to a female activist for seniors in which he described Social Security as “a milk cow with 310 million t*ts.”
“Over the last 40 years, I have had my size 15 feet in my mouth a time or two,” Simpson wrote in a letter to the activist, Ashley Carson, on the official stationery of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. (You can read his letter HERE.) “To quote my old friend and colleague, Senator Lloyd Bentsen, when I make a mistake, ‘It’s a doozy!’”
The White House said it didn’t play a role in Mr. Simpson’s mea culpa. “He was a senator and been around politics long enough to come to the realization on his own,” one senior White House official told ABC News.
Carson, the executive director of the National Older Woman’s League (OWL), told ABC News, “I appreciate his apology and that it was such a rapid response, but what he said calls for greater action.” Carson said she doesn’t think Simpson “has the judgment to make decisions that impact so many Americans, and in particular I represent older Americans and older female Americans.”
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I’ll have to masticate on your reply for a while...
Read the 1936 Social Security brochure and laugh... http://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/ssb36.html
He must have accidently absconded with Joe Bidens diary.
I am proud of our former senator Simpson, he tells it like it is.
“Deficit Commission Co-Chair Apologizes for Calling Social Security ‘A Milk Cow with 310 Million T*ts’; Feminist Groups Call for His Ouster”
How’s that Hope & Change working for ya’, liberals!
That line just shows that no one is paying attention!
I wish people would quit apologizing every time the truth slips out — it’s not like a fart.
Oh good grief. I’m a woman and I have no problem with this. It’s accurate and I’ve personally made remarks about someone sucking the government tit more than once. They DO NOT speak for all women and I wish they’d get it through their pea brains. They don’t like it cause he spoke the truth.
>> with 310 Million T*ts’
T**ts’
Can’t any politician Buck up and say: ‘Yes I said it, and I meant it !’ ?
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