RNC finds Bush-Reid tit-for-tat

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has resurrected a bill Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) sponsored when he was in the House more than 20 years ago that would have kept members of Congress out of the Social Security program.

RNC researchers contend that the 1983 bill belies Reid’s repeated claim that Social Security is the “most successful program in the history of the world.”

The Republican salvo is in response to Democrats’ frequent use of a statement President Bush made in 1978 during his unsuccessful campaign for Congress that Social Security will “go bust in 10 years unless there are some changes.”

As the battle over Social Security reaches a fever pitch — complete with tens of millions of dollars spent by the opposing sides on television ads and the mobilization of thousands of volunteers to conduct grassroots campaigns — Bush and Reid have emerged as the principal adversaries, resembling candidates locked in a tight race.

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/042605/rnc.html

Bush is losing this race big time. What is "The Hill" smoking?

lots of stupid rnc lies, like the very last paragraph.
they just toss in that republicans accuse reid of "contradictions", then they supply one such "contradiction" without questioning it.

namely, reid has stated both that saving social security is important and also that there is no social security crisis. supposedly, this is a contradiction. and presented as such, without comment or explanation, it sure seems like it.

in truth, there only appears to be a contradiction when you take these two points and put them up next to each other without explanation. how about, social security needs saving FROM REPUBLICANS? or how about explaining that saving social security requires routine tweaks and this is not a crisis situation?

sheesh.