They don't even pretend to pretend anymore. Why doesn't bush just

LynnTheDem

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Fri Feb-25-05 04:04 PM
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They don't even pretend to pretend anymore. Why doesn't bush just

announce his lifetime dictatorship & be done with it, already.

From TPM:

Social Security has seven 'Trustees'.

Five of the Trustees serve ex-officio, i.e., they're automatically a Trustee because of their office -- like the Treasury Secretary, Labor Secretary, etc.

One of the two who were appointed directly is Thomas R. Saving. If you look here you'll see that he was a Trustee in 2004 and I've just confirmed with the SSA that he remains a Trustee for 2005.

Yet, according to this morning's Houston Chronicle, he has just signed on to be an advisor and spokesman for one of the lead pro-Social Security phase-out astroturf groups, Progress for America.

Are his duties as a Trustee compatible with going to work for Progress for America?

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_02_20.php#004908

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GreenPartyVoter

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Fri Feb-25-05 04:06 PM
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1. Because some folks are naive enugh to believe that, yeah, he's

got their best interests at heart.

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aden_nak

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Fri Feb-25-05 04:20 PM
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2. Why bother with a political upheaval like that?

It's a much simpler thing to just run a different NeoCon jackoff every eight years. I mean, the same group of people, from Perle to Rumsfeld to Cheney, are going to be running the show anyhow. Does it really matter what the name of the dim-witted rube who sits around in the Oval Office is actually named?

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Ramsey

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Sat Feb-26-05 11:59 AM
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3. We should be on this

We should all be calling or writing to the Social Security Agency and ask them how their trustees can also be shilling for pro-phase out special interest groups.

It's outrageous that they are appointed to administer Social Security all the while trying to destroy it!

http://www.ssa.gov/reach.htm

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Al-CIAda

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Sat Feb-26-05 12:03 PM
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4. The voting machines are now rigged, the sharade is working. -eom

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