So W. has flatly ruled out raising the payroll tax in order to "fix" Social Security, then in the next breath says he won't "prejudge any solution". (Except raising the payroll tax.) As in Iraq, the administration starts out with the desired outcome (in this case, dismantling Social Security) and works backwards from there to construct the justifications for that outcome. What the hell kind of logic is that? No wonder these guys don't believe in science.
White House "budget" director Joshua Bolton, when asked where the money would come from to finance the transition to private accounts (estimated at $1-2 trillion), said "I don't want to prejudge how they [costs] might be accounted for."
Is "prejudge" the Rovian word of the day? Trouble is, these people aren't interested in exercising any judgement at all. Let's hope that other members of the president's party are better at math than he is at semantics.
The fear campaign is on to try to stampede the public into believing that, once again, they must sacrifice their self-interest in order to solve a problem that, while not invented out of whole cloth, is not the "smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud" either.
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