Privatize, privatize, privatize.

POSTSCRIPT: In addition to the rather amusing reportage on the GOP's feckless, George-Orwell-by-way-of-Wile-E-Coyote efforts to eliminate the word "privatize" from the Social Security debate, there's another reason to click over and take a look at the article linked above: it contains a textbook example of what's sometimes called the "phony balance" problem. You see, according to the article's author, Mike Allen, Democrats are no better than Republicans on this; we want to make the word "crisis" disappear.

Only that's not true. We Dems haven't tried to make the word disappear -- we've simply argued that the Republicans' privatizers' own numbers don't support the idea that there is one, which would make the president's repeated use of the term inappropriate. There's a big difference. And it would be a real service to their readers if smart, talented reporters like Mike Allen quit pretending that they're incapable of grasping those sorts of distinctions.