Saturday, January 29, 2005
Conyers: Privatization Is Going Nowhere
A friend of mine from the Motor City sent this in to me yesterday:
This morning on the Nancy Skinner Show (WDTW-AM 1310, Detroit), Rep. John Conyers said, "Just between you and me and half a million listeners, Social Security privatizing is going nowhere." I got the distinct impression that he was providing the inside scoop based on what he's heard from his colleagues.Doesn't surprise me. It's one thing to attack programs that Republican voters don't think benefit them directly -- Head Start, etc. It's quite another to go after Social Security. Plus, we've managed to get out in front of the privatizers on this issue. Bush's deceptions and coyness -- remember how he got the media to bash Kerry for (correctly) calling Bush a privatizer? -- have backfired, allowing us to frame it first. And it takes a lot of effort/money/time to overcome an initial framing of an issue. Furthermore, the rumblings of China's central banks are being heard. Greenspan whored to get Bush a second term by keeping interest rates artificially low, but he's now jacking them up again because he must.
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