Social Security Rhetoric

Gerald Sieb from the WSJ quotes RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie:

"The political risk of doing nothing is fast exceeding the political risk of doing something when it comes to Social Security reform."

Unless your short-term memory is akin to that of a goldfish, this method of persuasion probably sounds familiar:George Bush on March 6th, 2003:

"The risk of doing nothing, the risk of hoping Saddam Hussein changes his mind and becomes a gentle soul, the risk that somehow inaction will make the world safer is a risk I'm not willing to take for the American people."

Is there an echo in here? Things are getting risky again. You gotta hand it to the Repubs: they find something that works and they stick with it. From their rhetoric one can only assume that they have already decided what they're going to do. Lets hope the War on Social Security goes a wee bit better than that Operation Iraqi Freedom snafu. I think that there is reason for optimism: old people are much easier to kill than insurgents.

(Though it hasn't picked up much steam as of yet, I still say that my earlier suggestion of an army of elderly-draftees could solve the Iraq and Social Security problems at the same time.)