Via the essential Avedon, this buried item from WaPo:

Leaders of the Senate Budget Committee want to assemble a Bipartisan panel of lawmakers and administration officials to deal with the skyrocketing costs of Social Security and other entitlement programs, with the goal of bringing a reform proposal to a vote in Congress later this year.

Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said he and his predecessor, Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), have asked House and Senate leaders to consider appointing the panel, which would be composed of an equal number of Republican and Democratic lawmakers. They said they have also asked the White House to participate.

Conrad declined to provide many details of the panel, saying too much information could "kill this baby in the crib."

Please, strangle this baby now! And way to connect with the base, Kent!

Say it with me:

Social Security is not broken! So don't fix it!

Honestly, stopping Bush's insane plans to privatize Social Security was one of the great victories that paved the way for victory in 2006. And since to the Republicans, Social Security is nothing but a big pile of money to loot, why would the Democrats let them anywhere near?