Who will tackle the Social Security issue?
MARGARET WARNER: All right. In other issues, Social Security, the president went on the road this week talking about reforming Social Security in a fairly major way. The politics on this issue seem to have changed a lot. PAUL GIGOT: In a tremendous way. I think it’s one of the–it is the most interesting substantive politics–non-scandal politics going on right now. And the president I think has begun a debate that maybe he can’t stop or control. He came out and made that Social Security announcement at the State of the Union because he wanted to mousetrap Republicans on tax cuts. Don’t do it because we need to save the money for Social Security–he succeeded in that but he also has begun this debate. He’s legitimized a debate for Republicans and very prominent Democrats, like Bob Kerrey and Pat Moynihan, good solid liberals, to come out and say very interesting things on Social Security including partial personal retirement accounts for part of the payroll tax, which are revolutionary
