The effort was widely viewed as a rousing success, stopping the initiative in its tracks and weakening a newly re-elected president, but the brains behind the Bush Social Security plan have not been vanquished.
Far from it: Chuck Blahous was nominated to the Social Security Board of Trustees last week – by Barack Obama.
White House aides say Blahous’s nomination comes courtesy of the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who gets to recommend an appointee to one of two public trustee slots on the Social Security Board. But it was Obama who sent his name up to the Senate, with nary a mention of his work championing what Democrats derisively called Social Security privatization.
The nomination identifies Blahous as a former deputy director of the Bush National Economic Council and as the executive director of the bipartisan President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security. « less
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President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
Social Security...
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Hudson Institute
Think tank founded by Herman Kahn
Alliance for Worker Retirement Security
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Judd Alan Gregg
former US Senator from New Hampshire
Alan Kooi Simpson
Former US Senator from Wyoming; Co-Chairman National Commission...
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Claudine Schneider
US Representative from Rhode Island
Bob Dole
US Representative and Senator from Kansas
George W Bush
43rd US president, ex-governor of Texas, son of George H W Bush
