It’s still going to take us a bit longer to get our Social Security database up and running. So for now we’ve added this little box you see there on the right with links to the most up-to-date lists of the Fainthearted Faction as well as the Republicans’ rapidly growing Conscience Caucus.
Look at this piece in tomorrow’s Post on Republican resistance to the president’s Social Security phase-out bill. The spark to the piece is Rep. Rob Simmons, a Republican from a pretty competitive district in eastern Connecticut, who says flat out that he’s not going to vote for the president’s bill.
More revealing is the fact that Republicans themselves, according to the Post, estimate that between 15 and 40 members of their House caucus agree with Simmons. And note Bill Kristol’s also sounding a note of opposition, both on the politics and even the substance of the president’s plan.
