There Is A Plan and A Republican That Wishes Liberals Were Dead
Don't forget how these same Republicans rode AARP to victory in the Medicare sham bill last year. Now they're doing this, GOP Lawmakers Attack Democrats, AARP. Here is what the Majority Leader had to say:

Republicans attacked the AARP as well as congressional Democrats on Wednesday as they struggled to build momentum behind President Bush's call for personal investment accounts under Social Security.

The AARP, which claims 35 million members age 50 and over, is "against a solution that hasn't been written yet," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay after a closed-door meeting with the GOP rank and file.

To me that means the Republicans haven't written or seen a plan from the President yet. But that article ends with this:

Younger Americans would be allowed to invest a portion of their payroll taxes on their own. In exchange they would receive a lower government benefit than they are now guaranteed, on the assumption that the proceeds of their investments would make up the difference. In addition, though, even younger voters who choose not to establish personal accounts would receive a reduced government benefit under Bush's plan, according to GOP congressional officials who have been briefed on the plan.

Another bright spot in the Republican Party
Nevada Democrats decry Gibbons' remarks

"I say we tell those liberal, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals to go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else," he said.

He added it was "too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket" to become human shields in Iraq.

Gibbons' comments in Elko came a week after he apologized for calling those who oppose corporate donations for President Bush's inaugural parties "communists."

I hope he wasn't planning on too many cross-over voters in his run for Governor.
- posted by Mom/Dad @ 1:45 PM