What are the Democrats responses to the recent developments on the Social Security issue?
Democrats are more united than ever in opposition to Republicans’ initiatives, given the president’s continued slippage in the polls, including for his handling of the Social Security issue. Earlier in the year, some Democrats fretted that the party needed to have an alternative on Social Security. But now you hear very little of that. Democrats say they’re talking about other issues the voters care about now, like high gasoline prices, even if they aren’t offering solutions. Problems like Social Security’s can wait, many say, and they won’t come to the table in any case so long as the president insists on private accounts. Some Republicans, House leaders among them, contend that Democrats will have a hard time opposing a proposal like Mr. DeMint’s that plays to many Americans’ belief that government is “raiding” the Social Security surpluses to fund politicians’ pork. But so far there’s no sign of that nervousness among Democrats. If Mr. Bush has done nothing else, he’s raised America
