A party of one.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Social Security reform - Brief Article

Recently on Jim Lehrer's "News Hour," during the Brooks/Shields segment, David Brooks, in contending that the Republicans were much more flexible on Social Security reform than the Democrats, said that they were willing to raise the payroll tax on incomes over $90,000. After Brooks had repeated this point several times, Mark Shields leaned...