Like Saddam, Social Security is a crisis until Bush tries to fix it

The Questions And Observations blog, QandO, has an excellent post, Oh, that Social Security Crisis, which analyzes why the why the Democrats have suddenly changed their mind about whether Social Security is at risk.

QandO uses a couple of article by BSD afflicted Krugman that simply claims that Bush invented the Social Security crisis yesterday. QandO notes a number of speeches by Clinton, and others, during the 1990's that specifically mention the Social Security crisis. They also note that the Social Security Administration was saying 1998, "It is important to address the financing of both the OASI and DI programs soon..."

Regarding why the Dems are exhibiting such antics now, QandO quotes Tom Maguire's reasoning:..

if I were a proper Dem, I would insist that there was no current Social Security problem, and await the day when a Dem president and Congress could implement a more progressive solution.

Yup, I agree.