The Strange Silence at WhiteHouse.gov

Dick Cheney has taken charge of the Social Security Demolition Derby while Georgie hides from the fundies relaxes in Crawford. Regular readers know that I've been poring over the White House transcripts of Chimpy's Social Security road show for the past couple of months.

Funny thing, though - Cheney did two Baboon-a-palooza events yesterday, one in Battle Creek, Michigan, and a second in Pittsburgh, but the White House as of 8AM CST has not posted transcripts from either event.

So I turned to local press coverage of the two events and soon found out why the White House is holding onto those transcripts. Big Time Dick is getting blasted by both the local press and his hand-picked audiences.

Unlike Dear Leader, when Cheney does a Social Security "town hall" meeting he allows audience members to ask him questions instead of placing "regular folks" on stage with him for well-rehearsed exchanges on the evils of Social Security. Turns out that was a huge mistake on Dick's part.

Read on. . .

http://first-draft.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2564&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Thank you for doing this. Thank you for your curiosity and generosity.

It is good to see so many keeping an eye on the critical issues. Found the site through Josh Marshall and will make sure they get on my regularly visited sites list.

...according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05084/477431.stm

"By design, most of the audience, and most of the questions to Cheney, were friendly. Bob Glancey, chairman of the Allegheny County Republican Party, asked him why the proportion of contributions eligible for personal accounts wasn't even larger. Mike Rubino, 19, head of the Seton Hill University Young Republicans, asked another approving question on the virtues of private accounts."

And let's not forget, Cheney is now using SS trustee projections that have been calculated through INFINITY just to make the "imaginary problem" appear as dire as possible.

OP

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"There's a lot of resistance to the notion that the federal government own that big a piece of the stock market," he said.

i thought it was OUR money, numb-nuts?

peace