A reader chimes in with the following question …
Dear Josh,
Over the years, David Broder has regarded himself as the voice of fiscal responsibility. Yet he also has expressed openness to SS privatization from time to time. Now that we know Bush’s plan will require upwards of $4.5 trillion in new federal borrowing over 20 years, what sayeth Lord David? He has been mysteriously silent on the subject of privatization.
We’re curious too.
Part of a larger story about Washington’s journalistic establishment and conventional wisdom, or the wages of Russertism …
Ask Fred Hiatt. He may have something to add.
