The GOP has retaliated under accusations by some Democrats that the GOP is attempting to dismantle social security. Just look at the some of the titles of threads here on A2K. The Dems criticize the GOP and the GOP asks for the Dems' plan, and when they have none, yes criticize the Dems' for having no plan while critizing what they assume the GOP plan will be.
Do you see how silly all this is? Nobody, let alone an unschooled reporter, should be criticizing a plan that doesn't even exist. I would like to think reasonable people can do better than that.
My hope for this thread is for us to all look for something that might work. At the very least we will have better educated ourselves so we will be better able to judge whether we will agree with or scream bloody murder at whatever plan is finally proposed no matter who proposes it.
And I know from my own Congresswoman that Congress is paying attention to these message boards.