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Joe Klein on Social Security... [from the Daily Show of course]

Joe Klein: Here's the cool thing about Social Security. Yesterday, before the speech, the White House explains it the "torters," the private investment accounts, and here's the way it works: You put your money in your own private investment account. And then, when it's time for you to retire, you give a whole lot of it back to the government so that they can dribble out little benefits to you that are the equivalent of Social Security as it now stands.

Jon Stewart: That's really what this plan is?

Joe Klein: If you make more than a designated amount, you might get a little bit extra. Yes.

Jon Stewart: That's it?

Joe Klein: It's an annuity.

Jon Stewart: But here's what I don't understand...

Joe Klein: It's really remarkable.

Jon Stewart: But how does that save Social Security? Because the government still has to dish out the same amount of money, no?

Joe Klein: Well, they're going to lower our benefits it was they're gonna actually do, and the President said he would last night.

Watch it [mov] or listen to it [mp3] thanks to Lisa Rein.

ALSO:
Read Paul Krogman's analysis of Bush's Social Security plan from today's New York Times. It spells it out pretty well.

Bush ceases to amaze me.

Bush spending plan hits social programs
By Susan Milligan and Rick Klein, Globe Staff
February 8, 2005

WASHINGTON -- President Bush yesterday laid out a $2.6 trillion federal budget that would boost national defense while making the deepest cuts in social programs since the Reagan administration.

The White House said the plan would help protect the country from terrorism while chipping away at the record federal budget deficit by eliminating or shrinking 150 domestic programs.

''It is a budget that sets priorities," Bush said before a Cabinet meeting. ''Our priorities are winning the war on terror, protecting our homeland, growing our economy. It's a budget that focuses on results. Taxpayers in America don't want us spending their money on something that's not achieving results."

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Critics deemed the budget blueprint an assault on the nation's neediest, saying Bush planned to pay for making his $1.6 trillion in tax cuts permanent by robbing funds for education, food stamps, and healthcare for the poor.

''There's a direct trade-off -- help the rich and hurt seniors and children," said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, which advocates more generous social spending.

Read More on Boston.com

Ann Coulter : "Liberals have a problem with blacks"

Ann Coulter says that all liberals are racist because they oppose Rice. No, seriously... she actually said that ALL LIBERALS are RACIST.

Watch the clip from Fox's Hannity and Colmes. Prepare to be shocked. [wmp]



A few more Coulter quotes:

"My only problem with Tim Mcvay is that he did not go to the New York Times Buiding."

"The terrorists that attacked the United States on 9/11 were Arabs. Therefore, all Arabs are terrorists."

"Liberals hate America."

"Liberals hate all religions except Islam."

"Democrats actually hate working-class people."

"Liberals hate society."

"Even Islamic terrorists don t hate America like liberals do."

"Democrats . . . will destroy anyone who stands in their way. All that matters to them is power."

"Liberals can't just come out and say they want to take more of our money, kill babies, and discriminate on the bases of race. "

"Liberals seek to destroy sexual differentiation in order to destroy morality."

"That's the whole point of being a liberal: to feel superior to people with less money."

In case I never mentioned it, Hannity and Colmes is a terrible example of showing both sides of the political spectrum. It's as if Colmes is paid to be passive and play stupid.