More Slime on the Subject of Social Security

From Daily Kos, verbatim:

Krugman in the New York Times:

The slime campaign has begun against AARP, which opposes Social Security privatization. There's no hard evidence that the people involved - some of them also responsible for the "Swift Boat" election smear - are taking orders from the White House. So you're free to believe that this is an independent venture. You're also free to believe in the tooth fairy. (emphasis mine)

These people are pure slime, we need to take this as far as it goes, and we need your help with the Open Source Research.

To recap, USA Next smeared the AARP, and bloggers hit back. USA Next retreated and pulled the ad, the bloggers kept advancing. And kept pushing and researching and breaking news. We can't repeat the same mistake by not taking the swift boaters seriously, we need some serious sunshine and we need it now.

To catapult the Open Source Opposition Research, your friendly, blogosphere Political Action Committee has released our first Intelligence Briefing:

Overview

BlogPAC Intelligence Report: USA Next (pdf)

Obviously, the people who want to get rid of Social Security will do anything — lie, distort, use tricky wording, and any other dirty trick they can so that they can achieve their goal, which is not, and has never been, strengthening Social Security. They want Social Insecurity.

Finally, let’s view Social Security as question of our society’s and our individual values. According to Rev. Michael J. Kavanaugh,

In the last election, there was a great deal of discussion about values. That’s a good thing, except those values related to only two areas — sexual areas including gay marriage and abortion. The value of caring for the common good is a Judeo-Christian value, and an American value that goes back beyond our founding.

The responsibility that we have to maintain Social Security — not private or personal security, but Social Security — are values we must hold on to.

I’m afraid further privatization, whether it’s by choice or enforcement, reduces our understanding of our responsibility for our common good.