The New Big Lie

Two items stacked nicely today on T. Goddard's political wire:

President Bush "plans to reactivate his reelection campaign's network of donors and activists to build pressure on lawmakers" to pass his Social Security plan, the Washington Post reports."The campaign will use Bush's campaign-honed techniques of mass repetition, never deviating from the script and using the politics of fear to build support -- contending that a Social Security financial crisis is imminent when even Republican figures show it is decades away."

Bonus Quote of the Day"George Bush and the Republicans are going for broke. They know that a second-term president has no more than eighteen months to force his agenda through -- and they won't waste a minute." -- James Carville, quoted by the Washington Times.

From the folks who brought you WMD in Iraq, Saddam masterminding 9-11 and the Swift Boat Liars for Slander and ReElection, the drumbeat is going to be Social Security is going to hell, and the way to fix it is to destroy it. Sort of the Drill in the Alaskan Wildlife sanctuary philosophy on a grand scale.

It is a lie. There is no crisis, just a problem caused mostly by the fact that presidents like the Bushes have robbed the social security trust fund for such critical items as Star Wars and to line the pockets of their contributors. They are the real thieves and cheaters damaging social security.

So far the Bushie push isn't working. But it's no time to relax, as we learned in November. The Dems smell blood in the water but we all have to resist this Big Lie.