For Clinton, no Social Security plan is the best plan

GILFORD, N.H. – Visiting the lakes region today, Hillary Clinton not only defended her lack of a specific plan to reform Social Security but called her rivals irresponsible for offering more detailed proposals.

Clinton wants to focus on fiscal responsibility throughout government, and appoint a bipartisan commission to examine the entitlement program’s funding shortfall. But she has been criticized by rivals for not actually saying how she thinks Social Security would best be fixed.

She has previously taken Barack Obama to task for talking about a Social Security “crisis.” Clinton argues that there is no crisis and that such talk comes straight out of “Republican talking points.”

But today, speaking at the Gunstock ski lodge at the bottom of the slopes, as snow machines blew furiously outside, she went so far as to proclaim, essentially, that right now no plan is the best plan of all.

“I think it is a mistake for Democrats to be throwing these ideas out when we know that we can’t do anything unless Democrats and Republicans hold hands and jump together,” she said.

“Most of my opponents are more than happy to throw out all their ideas, and I just know, maybe it’s because I’m a student of history and I’ve been studying this, I know that eventually you’ve got to have a bipartisan commission,” she said, referring to such a commission created by Ronald Reagan in the 1980’s. “That’s the only way we’re going to resolve that.”