The Republicans won't even bring Shrub's Social Security scheme to the floor unless they can get one Dem to sign on. Well,
it just got tougher.
U.S. Senator Max Baucus, the senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said President George W. Bush's proposal to create private Social Security accounts has no chance of passing Congress.
"Privatization is dead," Baucus, a Montana lawmaker, said on Capitol Hill today. The Bush proposal "won't pass, no way, no how."
When the Democrats' chief tax-writer is making statements like this, you have to think that what Democratic support existed for this is about to dry up.