Not just Frist.
You have to read down to the bottom of the article in tomorrow’s Times. But it seems that the White House was also able to force a recantation from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) Iowa, who yesterday suggested that the Congress should shift its focus from private accounts to solvency. Today Grassley released a statement saying: “Personal accounts are still on the table along with all the other ideas to strengthen Social Security.”
That, of course, brings the number of White House-squeezed recanters to three: McCrery, Frist and Grassley, though today’s reports left it unclear whether Frist and Grassley were taken to the Chamber like McCrery.
