Social Security Too Important to Drop 

Regardless of White House denials, it is obvious that President Bush has put Social Security reform on the back burner — and turned the heat setting down to “simmer.” So obvious has that been that, during Bush’s State of the Union speech, opponents of reform cheered when he mentioned his failure to make it happen. But Social Security reform is too important to forget. Instead of merely giving it lip service, Bush should continue to push hard for it. “Unfortunately, the atmosphere in Washington appears that there will be no solution because there’s too much politics,” Bush said on Thursday. But politics is a two-way street — and if Bush doesn’t begin moving on his side of it, there certainly will be no reform.