<H4>Be alert for BushCo to talk "Social Security fairness"</H4>

Rep. Jim McCrery, after indicating he’s glad Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas has proclaimed Bush’s Social Security plan is wearing no clothes, goes on to think maybe privatization should remain on the boards, perhaps as part of Bush’s tax code revamping.

Knowing how “on message” Bush was about taxes in his first term, and just how much Democratic leadership did not fully grasp this, to their peril, this is important. Whether McCrery’s idea was his own from the start or prompted from somewhere else, it’s easy to see how the White House could run with this one.

Making privatization part of a larger “tax fairness” bill would ratchet up the issue massively.

Be alert for phrases like "tax fairness" to be associated with Social Security, or given that the administration is already spouting the falsehood that minorities actually get less out of the system, we could even see that Orwellian phrase:

"Social Security fairness."

Updated, Jan. 21

Try these other possible BushCo slogans on for size:
2. "Personalized accounts";
3. "Account ownership";
4. "Individualized accounts";
5. "Ownership accounts";
6. "Flexible accounts";
7. "Account fairness."