If At First You Don't Succeed...

President Bush once again pledges to re-push his rejected Social Security privatization/gutting next year, proving once again how out of touch he is with basic reality. This issue was so unpopular, even a GOP congressional majority (back when the armor was merely beginning to crack) couldn't get any movement on it. It was so unpopular, even the hand-picked conservative supporters at the President's numerous 'town hall' meetings in the spring of '05 were not buying. Poll after poll showed this issue, which the President hoped would be his legacy (when his real legacy was exploding halfway around the world), was overwhelmingly unpopular. And yet this President, the same one who had to be told by his staff in summer '05 to stop the PR tour and move on, thinks he is a position to try one more hard sell in '07. Whatever these people are smoking, I want some.

Washington Post: Social Security Enters Elections-

Bush Remarks Please Democrats, Perplex Republicans