Throw Them An Anvil
Feb 28th, 2005 at 10:19 am by Susan
This is pretty funny. Santorum is offering to allow the Democrats to be blamed for a tax hike for something we’re winning on, anyway:
WASHINGTON - Sen. Rick Santorum, the conservative from Pennsylvania who ranks third in the Senate Republican leadership, said Sunday that he was willing to discuss increasing the Social Security tax rate as a way of helping to assure the program’s solvency.Santorum said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that raising the Social Security payroll tax might be the price Republicans have to pay for Democratic support for diverting some of the tax revenue to private retirement accounts, as President Bush has proposed.
Not only that:
Santorum, who is chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said the one issue that he would not negotiate with Democrats was his ? and Bush’s ? insistence that there be no benefit cuts for today’s retirees and workers 55 and older.
Those horrid, horrid Democrats! Insisting that all the older people be cut loose and left to fend for themselves… But worry not, Little Ricky and Bubble Boy are bravely protecting the workers from something no Democrat will propose, anyway.
It reminds me of that knight in “Search for the Holy Grail” who’s had all his arms and legs sliced off, and is still insisting he’s winning the battle.
They’re drowning. Throw them an anvil.
