It’s a mixed day for Mainers on the Social Security front.
On the basis of two articles in the Washington Post last week, we’ve elevated Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) into “Loud and Proud” status within the Conscience Caucus.
Here Snowe tells reporters she will oppose diversion of payroll tax revenue into private accounts. And earlier in the week the Post quoted her saying that she is “certainly not going to support diverting $2 trillion from Social Security into creating personal savings accounts.”
On the other hand, Snowe’s colleague, Sen. Susan Collins (R) doesn’t seem to want to tell her constituents anything about her position on phasing out Social Security. In this letter to a TPM reader constituent, all we could divine from Collins’ opaque doubletalk was that she’s started using the last buzzword from the GOP Social Security speech code, referring to privatization as “modernization.”
