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This is huge, and more than a little aggravating. YOU PEOPLE OWNED BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2005 AND YOU RAN FROM THIS ISSUE LIKE SCARED PUPPIES!.
but still, it's nice to see Boehner starting to move on this; it's going to be interesting to see what the Tea-Party-Era Republican Party comes up with for a platform in the 2010 and 2012 elections. I'm thinking with a public increasingly worried about the deficit and the debt, this positions Republicans to look like the grownups in this debate, as opposed to Democrats who seem to have little other than 'raise taxes'
John Boehner: Raise Social Security Retirement Age to 70
House Republican Leader John Boehner said in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review out today that he would back raising the Social Security retirement age to 70 for those who will not retire for another 20 years... Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee National Press Secretary Ryan Rudominer told Hotsheet in response to the comment that the Republican "blueprint" is to privatize Social Security and Medicare, citing the budget of Representative Paul Ryan (R - Wis.). (Republicans are quick to note that while Ryan's "blueprint" for the future has advocated such measures, he has not put them forward as the House Republican budget.) Liberal group Americans United for Change, meanwhile, said Boehner "hopes to unravel progress made as far back as 70 years by scaling back Social Security"...
but still, it's nice to see Boehner starting to move on this; it's going to be interesting to see what the Tea-Party-Era Republican Party comes up with for a platform in the 2010 and 2012 elections. I'm thinking with a public increasingly worried about the deficit and the debt, this positions Republicans to look like the grownups in this debate, as opposed to Democrats who seem to have little other than 'raise taxes'
John Boehner: Raise Social Security Retirement Age to 70
House Republican Leader John Boehner said in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review out today that he would back raising the Social Security retirement age to 70 for those who will not retire for another 20 years... Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee National Press Secretary Ryan Rudominer told Hotsheet in response to the comment that the Republican "blueprint" is to privatize Social Security and Medicare, citing the budget of Representative Paul Ryan (R - Wis.). (Republicans are quick to note that while Ryan's "blueprint" for the future has advocated such measures, he has not put them forward as the House Republican budget.) Liberal group Americans United for Change, meanwhile, said Boehner "hopes to unravel progress made as far back as 70 years by scaling back Social Security"...