Frist Rejects Social Security Concerns - - FLIPPITY FLOPPITY

[jefferson_dem]

Frist Rejects Social Security Concerns

By LAURA MECKLER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Thursday that Congress must confront Social Security (news - web sites)'s problems this year, dialing back comments earlier in the week that action might have to wait.


"We need to do it this year. Not the next year," Frist said Thursday on the Senate floor. "We are working towards this goal."


Two days ago, Frist noted intense Democratic opposition and suggested he might not be able to move a bill to the Senate floor this year, as Bush has pushed for. "I want to be realistic," Frist said on Tuesday.


Other Republicans have expressed skepticism about the Bush plan, and polls have shown public support falling.

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&u=/ap/20050303/ap_on_go_co/social_security&printer=1

[Avalux]

1. * gave him a talkin' to -

Frist got reprimanded real good, yesiree. :spank:

[jefferson_dem]

9. YUP. Fristy has surely spent the last couple nights in the gimp suit

and tucked away in the trunk...only to be dragged out for his hourly reprimands. It's truly sickening how "REAL" an image that is.

He's got to be hating life right now. Say "buh bye" to your presidential aspirations fuck-face!

[blm]

24. Actually, Bush promised them he would boost his popularity soon

so that they could push his proposal for SS.

Anyone think it's just a coincidence Bush brought up Bin Laden and terror attacks today?

Something's coming and it will be soon. Expect Bush to be portrayed as the hero, just so they could push through his fascist goals.

[tanyev]

43. Probably Rove, actually.

[Nite Owl]

2. The puppet got his

strings yanked.

[Pinboy]

3. Fresh from the woodshed

[TahitiNut]

4. Any concern he may have had about votes in his state ....

... have obviously been allayed by Diebold and ES&S. "Who cares what you think?" is the motto of elections systems in our country today.

[mermaid]

8. No Shit!

I'd like to make a spoof commercial for Diebold voting Machines, the slogan being "Who cares what YOU think??"

[xxqqqzme]

5. spoke outside the script for the day

Do it again, bill and no '08 ticket place 4 U!

[RobertSeattle]

6. Was probably a "Trial Balloon"

...filled with lead.

[librechik]

7. the dauphin stomped his little foot

now the entire court is rushing to put a pillow under it.

Republic my ass. This is a monarchy obviously.

I think Shrub just loves the town halls. He gets so much love at those screened events that it makes him think he actually has support.

[mermaid]

10. That's Why He Bowed Out Of The Town-Hall Meeting In Europe

he found out the audience would get to question him directly!!

He couldn't handle that, so he ducked.

What an asshole...he refuses to be held accountable to his own people...now he even refuses to be held accountable by the Europeans!!

[TahitiNut]

13. It doesn't even have to do with "accountability" ...

... since, I'm sure, he regards such events as granting people an audience with the King. It's condescension.

[Igel]

11. No, it's "flappity floppity flip"

"Flippity floppity" would entail "flap", which doesn't rhyme with "strip". Schroedinger's mouse.

"Flappity, floppity, flip
The mouse on the mobius strip;
The strip revolved,
The mouse dissolved
In a chronodimensional skip."

Sorry, I'm having great difficulty being serious today. :eyes:

[Weembo]

17. Good one (eom)

[cascadiance]

28. Flip'in and Flop'in!! :)

[Guckert]

12. And the Problem is BUSH. Maybe he will start dealing with him.

[Itsthetruth]

15. A Republican Change In Course To Attack Social Security

I believe that Frist is suggesting that Congress act on Social Security's non-existent solvency "problem" rather than privatization.

He along with other Republicans hope they can reach a "bi-partisan" agreement with some Democrats on legislation to cut social security benefits and/or coverage by some price indexing scheme and increasing the retirement age and early retirement "penalties".

[finecraft]

14. I hope all the rats go down with the sinking ship

Let him "flip-flop" and "stay the course" with Bush.....because when this "social security modernization" ship sinks, it ain't gonna be pretty.

[indepat]

16. Frist will not have done one thing in the public interest by the time he

leaves public office IMHO.

[applegrove]

18. The War with Iran is in June guys - the fight for SS will be ignored.

They have to do it this year!! What is not to understand?

[trogdor]

20. So who's going to fight it?

Can't get that many trainees through the system by then, and all the current troops are either in Iraq, preparing to go there, or just came from there. Bet they didn't think about that, either.

[nolabels]

21. Has to be, what else could these crooked bastards be planning?

I was a little skeptical a couple of weeks ago. Now though I can see the power hungry junkies coming out in them. Some of these fruitcakes in the white house operate in their own orbit. They may or may not have a real plan for SS but it quite clear it's serving as a diversion while they set up some other plans of action.

Scot Ritter recently described them as the enemy in a more or less sense. I tend to believe the guy, he hasn't been very wrong about them yet.

[applegrove]

30. Actually I do not know about the war. But as to numbers? I would not

put it past Rummy to start a WAR, destabilize a place with smart bombs, and then insist that there has to be a draft after the gates to hell are open.

[ohtransplant]

19. Who didn't see this one coming?

That's why I called Frist's office and both of my rethug Senators' offices to offer my support for Frist's idea before * shoved it down his throat.

He had the bad luck/timing of making his statement at the same time * was revving up for the next offensive.

I believe there will still be an all-out battle on SS.

[BlueManDude]

22. the GOP has a small window of opportunity to destroy SS

must do it now or never. far enuf away from midterms to make the people forget by using gays or terrorists. also after midterms gop pres primary season starts.

[jefferson_dem]

31. Which is why they cannot afford to push the judicial nomination thingy

to the "nucular <sic> option." They can't afford the backlash bitchslapping the Dems will unleash in the Senate if they go that route. At the same time, Fristy can't run for pres having failed to ushered chimp's creepy agenda through. Interesting how this all fits together...and how it will inevitably sink the scum in their own slime.

[BlueManDude]

33. we are far from out of the woods on ss

they will have 95%+ of the gopers willing to drink the Kool-Aid - the question is can the dems in the senate defend the alamo.

[lovuian]

23. King Bush commands and Frist Bows and obeys!!!

Republicans will bow or be destroyed ... Bush never takes No for an answer!!!

[nolabels]

26. Thats what we have been hearing too

Yea *, invade Syria and Iran, gut SS, give your rich buddies another tax break and on and on.

I could hate him, but I don't think he is really worthy of it :think:

The USA is "No. 1" in nothing but weaponry, consumer spending, debt, and delusion.
http://207.44.245.159/article8191.htm

[tsuki]

25. This makes no sense. It is political suicide. The Republican Party has

absolutely lost it. Too many Thunes.

[Skarbrowe]

27. Political suicide only makes sense if you have reasonably honest voting

system.

We don't. They can do anything they want.

[BrklynLiberal]

29. Didn't Frist just announce that he is not going to run again? He said he

is going to retire from politics to find a cure for AIDS. I swear I read that! I did not make that up!! I swear...REALLY!!!

[MasonJar]

32. He'd be better off working on a cure for his own mendacity.

[Moderator]

34. kick to combine

[kskiska]

35. WP: Frist Revises Social Security Remarks, Urges Prompt Action

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who angered some fellow Republicans this week by suggesting President Bush's proposed Social Security revisions might have to wait a year, said yesterday that the legislation needs to pass this year.

"We need to do it this year -- not next year, but this year," Frist (R-Tenn.) said on the Senate floor, moments after the day's session began. He also restated his support for private accounts that would allow a portion of a younger worker's Social Security contributions to be invested in stocks and to follow the worker into retirement.

Frist had ruffled feathers at the White House and elsewhere by telling reporters Tuesday that it was unclear whether Congress would tackle Social Security revisions in "a week, a month, six months or a year." Acknowledging strong Democratic opposition to private accounts, he had added, "I wouldn't take that off the table yet."

(snip)

Some Democrats chortled at Frist's revised comments yesterday. The party's senatorial campaign committee said in a statement that White House officials had taken the Senate leader "to the woodshed." Frist's staff said he simply wanted to clarify his position on Social Security.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4183-2005Mar3.html

[Mountainman]

36. Why can't anyone stand up to Bush?

We have to put up with 60 days of his lies and bull shit. I would sure like to know what they told the talk shows to do for the next couple of months. They are trying to make this into a partisan fight which it isn't. It's the repukes against the people. We are on lookers.

[Disturbed]

37. Ass Clown Frist...

said three times in an iterview yesterday that Dems say there is no problem with SS. What freakin' LIAR.

[pdurod1]

41. Easy, corporate controlled media. Commies (CCCP) controlled TASS

Bush Admin announced that they would support "disinformation" during the first term. It's 1984, man.

[wicket]

38. FLIP FLOP!

[pdurod1]

40. If you're a repug: that would be a "floppity flip"

[dweller]

39. dupe

:D

not the OP, just my post...

dp

[fasttense]

42. There goes social security. Start cleaning out your shopping carts

you are going to need the carts to push around the remains of your property when you turn retirement age.