Remember last year, when the president’s pseudo-plan to [tag]privatize[\/tag] [tag]Social Security[\/tag] became a debacle for the ages? Apparently, at least one key House [tag]Republican[\/tag] wants a rematch.<\/p>\n
It’s not available online for non-subscribers, but Congress Daily reported<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n Congress should make Social Security overhaul its top priority next year, while a rewrite of the tax code and revamping the nation’s healthcare system probably will wait until at least 2009, House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman [tag]Jim McCrery[\/tag], R-La., said today. […]<\/p>\n “Looking at the lay of the land politically and substantively, it seems to me the more logical order would be Social Security, then tax reform, then healthcare reform,” he told reporters after addressing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. McCrery said Congress should take up Social Security first because doing nothing would have “tremendous negative fiscal consequences,” and it is easier to solve from a policy standpoint than fixing Medicare and Medicaid. “If we can get [Social Security] done, I think that buys us the political capital to move on to the bigger issues of health care,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I think it’s only fair that Democrats help Rep. McCrery and House Republicans by letting as many Americans as possible know about exactly what they’d like to do next year, if they keep their majorities in Congress. It’s getting some press<\/a>, but gifts like these don’t come along very often and Dems have to take advantage.<\/p>\n