They’re so funny, someone should give those guys a talk show. I mean it. Get them away from the levers of government, someplace where they can do no harm. Like a talk show.

“By using cautious estimating assumptions, reserving the Social Security surplus for debt retirement and Social Security reform, and preserving an additional large reserve beyond the Social Security surplus, the Administration has made it easier to adjust the budget in the future to meet new requirements as they arise.”

Ironically, that $2.6 trillion they carved out from the Social Security surplus woulda been just enough to pay for the transition costs over the first ten or so years of private social security accounts.

Of course, these weren’t real dollars they were talking about, and that pipe dream went up in smoke after the tax cuts and 9-11…

Ha, ha, good one! Actually it makes me violently ill if I actually think about it . . . .

I remeber this. For a while in the 2000 campaign bush was going around with four dollar bills in his pocket that he used to represent what he was going to do with the surplus: $1 in tax cuts (it’s your money!) $1 to pay down the debt (heh) and $2 to save social security.

But of course, as Dear Leader said back then, that was only if there wasn’t a war, a recession, or a national emergency. And then he hit the trifecta! (Wait for nervous audience laughter to die down.) Except he never said any such thing. No qualifiers.
None.I’m laughing so hard, tears are running down my face.

I’m surprised you fell for that obvious forgery. If you look closely you’ll see that all of the words in the linked page are spelled correctly. Does that sound like Bush to you? And it’s posted on that internet thingy that Gore invented so it’s obviously a Democratic Party plant. Besides, hurting the credibility of our government just helps the terrorists win. Did Dan Rather put you up to this?

But…

(all together now)

“…9-11 changed EVERYTHING!”

/right-wing puppet