One almost has to admire Republicans for the tenacity and determination with which they keep coming up with new ideas for hobbling Social Security.
Just in the last few months, we've seen Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., propose sunsetting Social Security and Medicare every five years, along with other federal programs, to give Congress recurrent cracks at zeroing them out.
Blake Masters, now the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona, has proposed privatizing Social Security. "Get the government out of it," he said in June, apparently unaware that a privatization plan crafted by President George W. Bush crashed and burned in 2005.
