TOMPAINE.com - GOP Cross Dressing On Social Security

"Privatizers who won did so by rejecting privatization," says Hickey. "They clothed their radical plan to undo Social Security in pretty words about ‘protecting’ it. Rather than have a real debate, they resorted to political cross-dressing."
One lesson in this? Policies inspired by political patronage -- in this case, from Wall Street firms who will profit from managing private Social Security accounts -- are easier to abandon than those born of real conviction.
The bigger lesson: You don’t get a mandate if you don’t run on your real position. The privatizers got no mandate from this election.
Will that stop them? Don’t count on it. The GOP did what it had to do to win -- it misled voters. Now it will do what it must to please its political patrons.