Cut and Run

I'm enormously disturbed to hear that the GOP is looking for an exit strategy on Social Security.  This sort of abandonment of Social Security could let it fall to AARP.  Indeed, a reverse domino effect could take place, as liberal pressure groups sense weakness, judge the administration a paper tiger unwilling to take electoral casualties, and begin pushing for a massive expansion of the welfare state. 

First Social Security, tomorrow the minimum wage, Monday universal day care, and next month, single-payer.  The thought makes me shudder.  Moreover, this essential willingness to abandon our nation's pension programs to those who seek to perpetuate our way of life proves the essential lack of seriousness conservatives bring to domestic policy.  All of us who understand that Social Security is, as President Bush said, the foremost threat to our national economy realize that his absence of leadership on the issue betrays a willingness to abandon the country's best interest in pursuit of partisan gain. 

The seniors, it seems, have already won.