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Social Security reform whack-job Peter Ferrara continues to peddle his conspiracy stories about the Bush administration pushing for tax hikes and benefit cuts (Ferrara's own reform proposal raises taxes and cuts benefits, but that's okay because it's his plan). The White House keeps denying Ferrara's ravings -- so what's his evidence? A Washington Times story (yes, don't laugh) that is simply a round-up of Ferrara's fellow whack-jobs all making the same claims. This reminds me of when Leftist whack-job Jason Leopold claimed he had proof positive that Karl Rove was going to get indicted at any moment in the CIA leak scandal -- he'd seen the draft indictments (so he said), and the whole thing... as far as I know he's still claiming the indictment will come any day now.

Update... Here's another one for Ferrara to cite as "proof." A Newsday column likening Bush's statement that raising payroll taxes is "on the table" in a broad discussion of reform to the elder Bush's violation of his "Read my lips: no new taxes" pledge. Let's follow the narrative here. Bush 41 destroyed his presidency when he violated that pledge by first saying he would "sit down and talk to" Democrats about tax hikes. In other words, if you say you'll discuss doing a thing, you'll do a thing. Well, Bush 43 already said in 2005 that tax hikes were "on the table" in the Social Security reform debate -- yet we didn't get a tax hike. Just what exactly is everyone so worried about here? This "on the table" thing has been around for almost two years. So let's get Bush 43 to make a pledge that take hikes aren't really on the table (as this letter from a group of influential conservatives does). Yeah, that'll help -- like the pledge kept Bush 41 from raising taxes. So here's the bottom line: pledges don't matter (since they can be broken) and putting something on the table doesn't matter either (since it doens't necessarily happen, just because it's on the table). So why doesn't everybody just calm down and see where this leads... there will be plenty of time to comment once a few facts are known (yes, I know, how boring... facts...)...

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