I’m not sure sure whether this counts as a trick question. But what does it mean precisely to have the likes of Rep. Jim McCrery say you’re ‘unserious’?
McCrery, you’ll remember, is the congressman from Shreveport, Lousiana, who first supported phase-out, then rejected it, then recanted his rejection after a trip to the White House where he apparently did a spell in The Chamber. And all in about a week and a half.
More recently, after again embracing privatization, he had his lawyer threaten the Campaign for America’s Future and a local cable system with a lawsuit for running an which claimed he supported privatization.
But today, at the first Ways and Means Committee hearing on Social Security, Rep. McCrery told Democrats: “If you want to be serious players, then you will stop this nonsense of saying, ‘We won’t (accept) personal accounts.'”
That’s the best he can do.
It’s amazing how many Republicans (and how much of Washington, or at least the titled caste) can’t get their collective heads around the idea that Democrats won’t vote to replace a portion of Social Security with private accounts.
