Sounds like Victory is Near on Social Security

Bill Frist appears to Attaturk to again be doing the White House's dirty work by spaying or neutering Bush's privitization scheme on the way to vivisecting it.

From the Washington Post:

The Senate's top Republican said yesterday that President Bush's bid to restructure Social Security may have to wait until next year and might not involve the individual accounts the White House has been pushing hard.

The comments of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), made as GOP lawmakers returned from a week of trying to sell the plan to voters, underscored the challenge facing the White House, especially in light of unbroken Democratic opposition.

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Frist is reluctant to put off a vote until 2006, when lawmakers will be focused on midterm congressional elections and the atmosphere will be more politically charged, aides said. But with polls showing widespread skepticism of Bush's proposal and some Republicans opposed to the approach, GOP leaders signaled yesterday that they may have no choice but to put off action.

That a politician as closely allied to the White House as Frist would even raise the possibility of putting off the proposal until next year -- possibly dooming it -- was an unexpected blow to the administration.

Keep up the pressure boys.

And there is NO WAY that even Bush would try this again in an election year. This whole battle may have doomed the GOP in 2006 as it is, which is exactly why Frist is floating this out there.