Domestic WMD

So the Washington Post has jumped into the fray and helped to point out the administration's lies and scare tactics.

President Bush plans to reactivate his reelection campaign's network of donors and activists to build pressure on lawmakers to allow workers to invest part of their Social Security taxes in the stock market, according to Republican strategists.[...]The campaign will use Bush's campaign-honed techniques of mass repetition, never deviating from the script and using the politics of fear to build support -- contending that a Social Security financial crisis is imminent when even Republican figures show it is decades away.

This whole thing has gotten me riled up, but my preliminry feeling is along the lines of "fool me once..." We have been down this road before and look where it led us. I think public support for this is not good and the second time around it will be a lot harder to panic people. The system at worst needs some adjustments not overhaul.