We told you on Tuesday night that Rep. Ron Kind (D) of Wisconsin was getting his papers in order to leave the Fainthearted Faction. And tonight he filed them.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel quotes Kind calling the president’s plan, “economically and morally irresponsible … I am strongly opposed to any privatization plan that cuts current benefits or increases the federal deficit. Further, the president cannot continue his raid of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds on one hand and on the other hand allege that Social Security faces a financial crisis.”
To the AP, he said: “The president’s proposal to overhaul Social Security would drain more than $2 trillion from the Social Security Trust Fund over the next decade, endangering the benefits of current retirees and leaving a legacy of debt to our children and grandchildren.”
These are the sorts of statements that are a bit vaguer on the policy nitty-gritty than we like to see. But it’s the sort that got Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) of California out of the Faction. And he makes up for vagueness with vehemence. So, on the totality of the evidence, Kind’s out of the Fainthearted Faction.
That brings the House Faction down to a mere five members, two of whom already have OFO? status.
