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May 13, 2005

Good for thee, but not for me

Democratic Senate minority leader Harry Reid makes it sound like Social Security is the bestest government program in the whole, wide world. But guess who introduced a bill in 1983 that would exempt senators and representatives from that very same wonderful program? You guessed it -- the people's friend in Washington, Harry Reid. From a Deroy Murdock column on Scripps Howard:

"Social Security is the most successful program in the history of the world, and we're going to protect it," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada said April 10 on CBS' "Face the Nation." "People depend on Social Security," Reid declared two days later. "That's the way it has been, and the way it should be, and we're not going to allow that to change."

But when President Ronald Reagan signed legislation in April 1983 to bring senators and representatives into Social Security, Harry Reid reacted like Harry Houdini. Reid tried to help lawmakers escape history's "most successful program." H.R. 3589, which then-Rep. Reid introduced on July 18, 1983, aimed "To repeal the recently enacted provisions providing for coverage of Federal employees under ... the Social Security Act."

Max Baucus, Charles Rangel and Paul Sarbanes are all caught in the same net of hypocrisy. Read the whole thing...

Posted by Don Luskin at May 13, 2005 1:12 PM | Print

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