Priorities

[Disclaimer: This post was first published on Coleen Rowley's campaign weblog.]

Today, President Bush made the following statement:

"The easy fix is to say 'Let somebody else deal with it.' This administration is going to continue trying to work with Congress to deal with these issues."

It's encouraging to see George Bush so determined to address the difficult challenges facing our country before he leaves office.

Can you guess which issue he was talking about? Was it:

• Working to reduce the record-breaking-with-no-end-in-sight federal deficit?
• The fact that an estimated 46 million Americans are without health care?
• The ever-deepening levels of sectarian violence in Iraq?

It's a trick question. The answer, of course, is none of these. For some reason, with less than three months until the election, George Bush is making a renewed effort to push his deeply unpopular Social Security privatization plan --- a plan which John Kline championed, with little success, in the House of Representatives last year.