White House memo: Pitch Social Security doom

[Jon8503]

Rove aide strategy: Convince public system’s ‘heading for iceberg’
The Associated Press
Updated: 8:37 p.m. ET Jan. 5, 2005

WASHINGTON - The success of President Bush’s push to remake Social Security depends on convincing the public that the system is “heading for an iceberg,” according to a White House strategy note that makes the case for cutting benefits promised for the future.

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Calling the effort “one of the most important conservative undertakings of modern times,” Peter Wehner, the deputy to White House political director Karl Rove, says in the e-mail message that a battle over Social Security is winnable for the first time in six decades and could transform the political landscape.

The White House confirmed the authenticity of the e-mail but did not have an immediate comment.

[In Truth We Trust]

1. The old "make em sick, and make em well" strategy. They are ruthless

and we must be also. F'ing dbag's!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Shorter version:

"We're full of shit on SS. You can be full of shit too!"