David Limbaugh has m…

David Limbaugh has more to say about how Social Security, while it was a crisis under Clinton, is no big deal under Bush.

Two major changes have occurred since those long-forgotten days when Democrats were identifying Social Security as a crisis that had to be fixed immediately: The problem has gotten worse, and Democrats have proven they weren’t sincere in the first place.

Bill Clinton pretended to be adamant about fixing the problem. Al Gore lectured his presidential opponent George W. Bush for not approaching the problem with sufficient urgency. Allusions to the ephemeral “lock box” were Algore’s favorite sound bites.

That was then. This is now.

One would think, then, that President Bush would be entitled to some credit for his willingness to tackle the notorious third rail of politics. He has little to gain politically from pursuing a solution.

Think again. In response to President Bush’s plan to add a private accounts option, Democrats insist that two rights make a wrong. That is, even if the president’s reform would enhance the average American’s retirement security, it must not be permitted if it would also help big business, which Democrats openly despise. You see, it’s not just the whack jobs on the Left, but the entire Democratic leadership apparatus that is saying the president is doing this as a sop to Wall Street.

Limbaugh notes that Democrats are turning to semantics to try to come up with an issue to oppose the President on.

Like little kids, they are arguing over the semantics of whether we are currently facing a “crisis” in Social Security or just a major “problem.”

Add Josh Marshall to the list of little kids who want to leave Social Security just the way it is; broken. (He’s even doing his own semantic two-step; handing out “bounties” for folks who can find places where a government official used the word “privatization” in the same sentence with “Social Security”.)

For Democrats, their view of the issues is so heavily colored by the party of the person sitting in the Oval Office that they can’t really be taken seriously.

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