Boehner gets "serious"

The Contract on America, revisited.

Though little-known publicly, Mr. Jackson has been at the center of Republican strategic planning for years and was closely involved, for instance, in the Bush administration push to add drug coverage to Medicare as well as its unsuccessful drive to add personal savings accounts to Social Security.

So, the guy who was influential in getting an unfunded trillion dollar entitlement passed and wants to push Social Security to the wilds of Wall Street. Sounds like a winning argument.