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Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 08:34 PM by TayTay
This fall we face: Another effort by the Rethugs to destroy Social Security by trickery and subterfuge. They plan on bypassing the SenFinComm in getting an SSI bill to the floor. They know the Senate will not pass a bill with Private Accounts in it, so they will get any old bill they can passed on the floor by trickery and by forbidding amendments. Then the House will obey the orders of the little dictator Delay and pass a bill with Private Accounts in it. (Leaving the vote open for three hours, as the Rethug House did during the Medicare Drug bill and the ConfComm thing as they recently did with the Energy Bill that pissed Kerry off no end.)
The Rethug leadership will forbid Dems on the conference committee from having any say whatsoever with what comes out of ConfComm. They will then bring the ConfComm bill to the floor, possibly invoke the 'nukular opshun' to forbid a filibuster and ram this bill through.
You better believe that a certain tall Senator from MA who serves on FinComm is going to scream bloody blue murder on this one. The Rethugs may try and do this under cover of the Roberts hearings or during national debate on Iraq when they think attention is elsewhere. Pay attention to this one. We must save Social SEcurity. Be prepared to write LTTE, call Rethugs and Repubs on the Hill (like the Maine girls, who are reasonable.) This is critical. (Any, may I say, that I believe both my Senators will fight like hell on this. Teddy will be tied up in the Roberts hearings, doing his job. So my Jr. Senator has to carry water on this one. It's vital that he and other Dems do so. Vital. We need the Avenger and the Warrior side to come out, big time.)
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