Now, let me tell you where I'm going to be next week. I had not intended to make this public for a host of reasons until it was all over, but the thing that I'm going to do next week has leaked. It leaked yesterday. I think it leaked from people who were trying to undermine it, and enough said about that. They are not going to succeed in undermining it, but I think that was one of the attempts, one of the reasons why it was leaked. Now, you do not know this, but for the past year and a half...

This next story, this AP story, I think it's passed off as a news story but I dare say this is a commentary. Listen to the first paragraph. "Increasing Social Security taxes for the wealthiest Americans could raise more than $100 billion a year, enough to shore up the retirement system's finances for 75 years, pay for President Bush's plan or private accounts or part of each." Says who? Who's saying this? I can't find anybody in the story that's saying this, other than the reporter babe, whose...

Now, let me tell you where I'm going to be next week. I had not intended to make this public for a host of reasons until it was all over, but the thing that I'm going to do next week has leaked. It leaked yesterday. I think it leaked from people who were trying to undermine it, and enough said about that. They are not going to succeed in undermining it, but I think that was one of the attempts, one of the reasons why it was leaked. Now, you do not know this, but for the past year and a half...

This next story, this AP story, I think it's passed off as a news story but I dare say this is a commentary. Listen to the first paragraph. "Increasing Social Security taxes for the wealthiest Americans could raise more than $100 billion a year, enough to shore up the retirement system's finances for 75 years, pay for President Bush's plan or private accounts or part of each." Says who? Who's saying this? I can't find anybody in the story that's saying this, other than the reporter babe, whose...