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You heard it, Vice President Cheney said there\u2019s nothing to the coziness between President Bush 43 and 41 and Bill Clinton other than just it\u2019s an elite club and time changes and heals all wounds. That there is not a political calculation behind this, and anybody who is trying to make one is — he didn\u2019t say this — but it is trying to be too smart by half. Of course, if there was and is a political calculation that is behind this, I doubt that it would be admitted to anyway. It\u2019s the same old thing. If you had a marketing plan, you don\u2019t tell people what it is. You just execute it. The problem with telling people what the marketing plan is, is that you give them an opportunity to brace themselves for it, and that obviously is not something they want to do. <\/line>One more thing here on Social Security. The president was in Memphis and he said yesterday, “I\u2019m saying for the members of the Congress, let\u2019s fix this system permanently, no Band-Aids. Let\u2019s do our duty and I believe that when this debate gets moving hard and people get educated about the realities of Social Security, woe be to the politician who doesn\u2019t come to the table and try to come up with a solution.” So make no mistake about it. The president was heckled, by the way, at one of his stops yesterday in Louisville. He was interrupted three times by hecklers, two of whom criticized Social Security. The interruptions were a relatively rare occurrence among crowds that are usually screened but the heckling didn\u2019t stop the president from trying to turn up the pressure on members of both parties. You know, he again said, “When Congress realizes people all over the country say we got a problem, then I pity the politician who stands in the way of the solution.” And I just have to tell you, he\u2019s dead on right about that, and when public opinion turns on this, and it\u2019s going to be the president and Vice President Cheney that do this, when they turn public opinion on it, you\u2019re going to see all of these followers get in line. The Democrats may be the last to go, but there\u2019s some cracks in their armor out there. If you listen very carefully, read between the lines, and read certain places, the Carville memo, Martin Frost, who is no longer in Congress, lost out to Howard Dean for the democratic national committee chairmanship, he\u2019s also saying we got to do something here, we can\u2019t just sit here and do nothing. And there\u2019s more and more Democrats saying this, but the leadership, Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi are holding fast in saying, “We\u2019re not going to do anything. We\u2019re not going to do jack diddly. You can keep on talking the rest of you Democrats about how we have to do something.” It\u2019s going to tear the Democrats apart, and folks, I alluded to this in one of my questions to Vice President Cheney. <\/line>The left is talking about a 70-year-old plan, and they keep talking about its design. They say Social Security was not designed to be a retirement plan, it was intended to be a safety net. Well what is this not designed? That\u2019s an amazing confession for them to make. A 70-year-old plan and its design is sacred? The left is talking about a 70-year-old plan and therefore we can\u2019t touch it. That means we cannot tamper with the original intent of Social Security. That\u2019s what the Democrats are saying. So I guess we\u2019re to conclude that the original intent of Social Security is sacred but the original intent of our governing document, the Constitution, is not sacred to them. We can find things that are not in it, and say they\u2019re in it. And we can say and look at things that are in it and say, “Well, they shouldn\u2019t be there. The Founding Fathers would have never put that in there if they\u2019d have known what society was going to be like today.” So when it comes to the law of the land, screw original intent. When it comes to one single entitlement within that law that gives the Democrats almost 90% of their political identity and self-esteem, the original intent of that plan cannot be changed. <\/line><\/p>\n

I mean, the absurdity here is just blaringly loud. I could fill three hours with illustrations of the absurdity here. But as a professional broadcaster, I\u2019ll center on but two. One was Social Security and one that\u2019s unrelated to Social Security. Was Social Security designed to take from many citizens more money in payroll taxes than income taxes? Was it designed to do that? No. Nope. Although I\u2019ll tell you something, I have a theory. I think all this talk about what a wonderful program, “Oh, it\u2019s so compassionate and we have recognized early in our nation\u2019s history the need to supplement the retirement income of our great seniors,” blah, blah, blah, I think this whole thing had — I think the design — if you want to talk about the original intent of Social Security, the original intent is on display with the Democrats\u2019 unwillingness to change it. The original intent of Social Security was to put as many voting senior citizens beholden to the Democratic Party as possible. It was a political move by FDR who not only with this, but he tried to pack the Supreme Court with his own judges and didn\u2019t get away with it. That\u2019s what led to the amendment, 25th Amendment limiting terms of the presidency. You have here a plan that FDR knew full well that if it was not tampered with for long enough, it would become the single biggest ticket to re-election that Democrat politicians would have. Because everybody knows that the older demographics vote in greater numbers than any other demographic, and if you arrange a situation where those members in the older demographic are totally dependent on a single government program for their lifestyles, you own them. You\u2019ve got them. You have them in the palm of your hand. They\u2019re not going anywhere. And all you have to do is threaten the other party with taking that program away and you are sitting in fat city. <\/line>And I think the original intent of this program was Democrat Party dominance from now or then as far as the eye could see. And all of the rest of this is a bunch of hocus-pocus. All the compassion that\u2019s supposedly in the program is a bunch of hocus-pocus because I\u2019m telling you, if you listen back just five or six years and you listen to Democrats whining and moaning about Social Security, they make it sound like it\u2019s not enough. People that only have Social Security are basically living in poverty. Remember all the stories about dog food versus medicine? So what do we do? We came up with a prescription drug entitled for them during the Bush administration to try to lesson the pain so they won\u2019t have to use their precious Social Security income. And what did the Clintons do in 1993? The Clinton tax increase raised the amount of Social Security income that\u2019s subject to taxation, income taxation on the part of recipients. So the Democrats have done a number of things here. They\u2019ve kept a program, basically a poverty level program, they\u2019ve increased taxes on it. They\u2019ve made it so that people who only rely on it basically live in poverty, and today they come and say, “We need to reform the program,” they say, “no problem.” So they basically want to maintain the status quo, the original intent of a program that is guaranteed a poverty — by American standards, anyway — a poverty level lifestyle for those who are recipients of the program. <\/line>Here we are in the 21st century, and one of our two major political parties is so backward-looking, they want to stay with the original design of the program. The original design of the program was the original design of our income tax system to withhold taxes so that citizens wouldn\u2019t see how much they\u2019re paying, no. That didn\u2019t start till World War II. The original intent of the first income tax bill — very few people paid income tax and the percentage was what, one or two percent? Talk about original intent! We reform every government program every year. We can\u2019t reform Social Security, the Democrats say. Why not? It\u2019s got to be in as big of trouble as any other government program is after all these years, and we know it is because we fix it every five or six years and say it\u2019s been fixed. But we don\u2019t fix it, we just delay the onset of disaster by another 10 years or so with the smoke and mirrors and budgetary tricks and so forth. They have been talking about how desperately in trouble the program is for a number of years, but now all of a sudden, when they\u2019re threatened with political irrelevance, when their power is waning, when their monopoly they used to have of the mainstream media has been shattered, when they are finally in the minority in the House of Representatives for now 11 years after owning it for 40, when they continue to lose seats in the Senate, they are desperate to hold onto the one thing they think launched them to that never-ending power, and that is Social Security. You can poke holes at their thinking on any aspect of this. You can take any government program that started 20 years ago and say, “Has it been touched or not? Has it been reformed?” <\/line>Look at welfare. We\u2019ve had welfare reform. It wasn\u2019t working. We\u2019ve a number of different programs that have come and gone, programs that always change from the income tax system to the Social Security tax system, any number of changes. But Social Security, we must protect the original intent. Why? What was the original intent? Maintaining Democrats in power! And they think if they let go of this program and let it be reformed, their hold on the one program that guarantees them the best guarantee of power is out the window. And that\u2019s why they\u2019re afraid of it, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re opposed to it. The last thing they\u2019re thinking of is Social Security recipients. The last thing they\u2019re thinking of is old mom and pop, mama and paw paw out there basically choosing between Medicare dog food and steak because they couldn\u2019t care less about that. They\u2019re concerned about their own power base and their ability to regain it and they think it\u2019s centered around Social Security remaining the way it is, and they\u2019re so off base on that, it\u2019s another illustration of how out of touch by at least 30 years they are. They\u2019re going to have their hands tied on this. They\u2019re going to be running around in circles. By the time this is all over, they\u2019re not going to know which way is up. In fact, they haven\u2019t seen up in I don\u2019t know how many years. Their whole view is down and they\u2019re heading in that direction and it\u2019s only going to be accelerated by the time the Bush Administration finishes this massive 60-city tour to convince the American people of the need to reform this program as we\u2019ve reformed any number of other government programs. The Democrats are just so focused on themselves, so concerned with their own happiness, their own power, that they cannot see what\u2019s actually happening and they can\u2019t see what would be the best thing for them to do to actually try to become relevant again — all to our benefit by the way.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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