Yahoo! News - Bush Isn't Ready to Reveal Soc. Sec. Fix
Georgie plays "I've Got A Secret" while the rest of his party twists in the wind. This tells me he is going to stick to his method of "fear-monger first", and, so far, that hasn't worked. The more he talks, the less people like it. So, keep it up George!

WASHINGTON - President Bush signaled Thursday he is not ready yet to reveal how he would fix Social Security's looming insolvency, saying he has to first persuade people there is a problem.

"I got a lot more time to tell people that there is a problem," Bush said in a speech to newspaper editors.

Bush spoke to the American Society of Newspaper Editors after a Republican lawmaker called him to disclose precisely how he would fix the retirement program's inevitable insolvency problem.

Bush has talked for weeks about his proposal to create a system of private investment accounts for Social Security but has acknowledged that those accounts would not solve the program's financial problems. He has not said how he would address the insolvency issue but has invited members of Congress to propose solutions.

Bush said that some members of Congress would rather not tackle Social Security because it is a politically sensitive subject. He said the political consequences would be worse if lawmakers failed to address the problem.

How so, George? You keep saying this, but right now it sounds like empty threats. Sounds like you're trying to bully Congress into coming up with a plan because you actually don't have one of your own, besides the "give the money to Wall Street" one that you are touting. This is not about "fixing Social Security", it's about stealing more money from the poor to give to the rich.

Here's some other fun things from his address-

He has ordered a review of plans to tighten re-entry rules at the Mexican and Canadian borders. He said a requirement to show passports could "disrupt the honest flow of traffic." Bush said he first learned about the new rules by reading the newspaper and his first reaction was, "What's going on here?"

Uh, George, I thought that you didn't read the newspapers. Someone must have taught him how to read. Good deal.

Said there is no inconsistency between his support of the death penalty and his espousal of "a culture of life," which he invoked in trying to get federal courts to intervene in the case of Terry Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman who was at the center of a heated political, legal and medical battle. "The difference between the case of Terry Schiavo and the case of a convicted killer is the difference between guilt and innocence," he said.

Ah, so it's OK to kill "guilty" people. Gotcha. And that takes, what, a whole fifteen minutes to decide? Plenty of time to "err on the side of life".

The government has to judge the need to protect its citizens against the right of people to demand access to government documents. But he said the presumption ought to be that citizens should know as much as possible about government decision-making. Bush said he does not use e-mail because he wants to protect his privacy when communicating with his daughters and others.

Bye bye Freedom of Information Act. That pesky little thing.

Sigh. Isn't it time for another vacation, George?