Democrats Play Social Security Scare Card Early

The Democrats had Bruce Braley deliver their national radio address Saturday. For those of you who don't recognize his name, which I suspect is everyone who isn't Mr. Braley's relatives, he's the Democratic candidate for the open House seat being vacated by Jim Nussle, who's running for governor. During his speech, Mr. Braley brought out the formerly tried-and-true Democratic boogeyman-- Social Security. Here's what he said:
"If the Republican plan is allowed to pass, future generations both here and across the country will be saddled with decades of debt and no guaranteed retirement security,'' Bruce Braley said in the Democrats' weekly radio address.
It used to be that playing on peoples' fears worked for Democrats but it doesn't anymore, thanks to conservative talk radio and the Right Blogosphere. People simply don't get scared when partial privatization of Social Security is brought up, thanks in large part to 401(k)'s.

I suspect that Mr. Braley's mentioning Social Security is either a sign of desparation on his part or he doesn't understand where the American people stand on this issue. What's worse is that he didn't stop there. His next quote sounds totally paranoid.
Braley said Social Security is under attack, with President Bush and congressional Republicans making privatization a top priority in 2007. He also accused the Bush administration of "plundering the Social Security trust fund while giving billions away to special interests, like big oil.'' "They are spending the money seniors rely on while making no effort to balance the budget or protect the limited funds we have for retirement security,'' he said.
That's a bald-faced lie & he knows it. After getting beaten up on Social Security immediately after getting re-elected, President Bush and the GOP legislature hasn't brought up the subject of Social Security reform.

Part of the motivation behind Mr. Braley's diatribe is the Democrats' belief that they can win by scaring people that Republicans are far outside the mainstream of American politics. They think that works because their Bush-hatred is that advanced. Unfortunately, that isn't where the American people are.

Democrats haven't come to grips with several important facts:

* Republicans are the majority party in America;

* America doesn't hate politicians nearly as much as Democrats hate Republicans; and

* The American people won't vote for politicians who stand for nothing but hating their opponents.

At the end of the day, I suspect that the elections won't turn out to be nearly as gloomy for Republicans as the Agenda Media and other moonbat Democrats are predicting. In fact, I'll predict that: (a) Chuck Schumer and Rahm Emanuel will turn on Howard Dean for wasting a ton of cash in the Southern states where Democrats don't stand a chance of winning and (b) the Daily Kos and others of the moonbat fringe will run a ton of conspiracy theories as to why they lost.


Posted Sunday, July 9, 2006 6:05 PM

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