In the fight to save Social Security, the next six weeks are crucial. In the Washington Post today, Mike Allen writes:

White House officials are telling Republican lawmakers and allies on K Street that they must begin to overcome opposition to President Bush’s proposal for changing Social Security within six weeks, GOP strategists said yesterday.

The GOP strategists stressed that the six-week goal is not a hard deadline for a political breakthrough, but they said the public’s tepid view of Social Security change cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely. The directive raises the possibility that Republicans will have to reconsider whether legislation can be passed this year, as Bush wants. …

I especially like that line about how our dislike of Bush’s proposals “cannot be allowed to continue”. I do hope they’re about to find out that there are some things in this country they don’t yet control.