What Does It Mean When Michelle Bachman is Right?

Michelle Bachman is no longer running for President. For that we can all be thankful. The fact that for a short time last year she was considered a credible candidate means more about how weak the Republican field is than anything to do with her own abilities.

Still this morning on Morning Joe Michelle Bachman made a point which I have been crying in the wind on for six months or more. She stated that with these continual extensions of the payroll tax cut that we are doing nothing more than robbing the Social Security piggy bank.

Now the fact that she was saying this was simply because the Republicans do not want The President to have any success. The fact that the President, perhaps using Bill Clinton's old triangulation technique, had adopted this as an issue for the middle class and taken credit for this does not matter however to how bad an idea this is.

With Republicans always wanting to drain Social Security and make it less viable, starvation by Democratic adminsitration would be a great option. In the short term letting Barack Obama have a short term political victory is a small price to pay.

If the government wanted to cut a tax it should clearly have been the payroll tax, not the social security revenue. With the constant conversation about the problems of social security this is one of the most foolish ideas ever proposed. The fact that Michelle Bachman, for whatever reason, is the lone voice of sanity crying in the woods does not make her any less right.

What we are doing is a terrible idea and she is correct in every way on this issue.