Stop what you’re doing! Spit out your drink!
Does Sen. Ben Nelson (D) of Nebraska want out of the Faction?
We’re not going to make any precipitous decisions, given how thoroughly Fainthearted we’ve long understood the senator to be.
But according to this article just out from Bloomberg …
Private accounts should be set up as an addition to Social Security rather than a partial replacement, said Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, a key Democrat working with Republicans on reform.
Any political solution to the controversial Social Security restructuring must include some “tweaking” of the program, such as raising the retirement age and increasing the $90,000 cap on taxable income, Nelson said today in an interview. Nelson, who is in talks with Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said a Republican proposal to change the formula for calculating benefit increases would be a “a non-starter.”
How lame is Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) of Arkansas going to feel if Nelson leaves the Faction before she does?
What about Evan Bayh? I can just see the 30 second primary ads now. Cue ominous music: “Bayh left the Faction after Ben Nelson. Can we trust Evan Bayh? I’m John Edwards and I approve this message.”
Oh, the humanity …
After we get done with the smelling <$NoAd$> salts we’ll try to bring you more on these startling developments.
