Alan Simspon Calls Social Security 'Cow With 310 Million Tits,' Causes Uproar

I can't wait to see who Obama appoints to replace him, if he does step down. Do you think John Galt is available for the post?

OK, let's not go overboard with the sexist stuff. The TPM picture is appropriate - his frame of reference is a cow feeding calves or a dog nursing puppies...this has nothing to do with women's breasts. What this group should have led with was the far more offensive and radical implication in Simpson's statement - that Social Security is just some big unearned entitlement and people need to be weaned off it...and he's co-chairing a commission that's supposed to figure out how to save Social Security, not kill it. They get to that and I think it's the primary message of their complaint but they didn't really need to go all out on the sexist charge...or at least not lead with it. That's what the media will focus on (if they focus on it at all) - the sex angle...and that's just a distraction.

I don't see the sexist element, just the hatred of Social Security conservatives have had since it was proposed. To have someone like that on the commission tells me this should be one of those commission reports that moves immediately to some shelf to collect dust.

Simpson should go.

This is serious gaffe, more serious than Gibbs' "Professional Left" and the accusations the nutwing made of Shirley Sherrod. I can't help but be furious that this guys calls my 35 years of contributing a little under 8% of my paycheck into Social Security a "tit", an entitlement.

Its an entitlement, alright. I PUT that money in there. Its mine, and I'm entitled to it when I retire!

What scares me is that Obama appointed this guy and 13 like him to a "deficit commission" with 18 members. So after we bailed out Wall Street, after we bailed out he banks, after we bailed out GM, we not only could not help homeowners, we are now going to balence the budget on the backs of the orphaned, the sick, and the old. That's not Christian, it's not what I thought the Democratic party stood for, and it's not the country I grew up in.

Obama is already telegraphing that any cut to Social Security other than out right elimination of it will be fine with him. Obama thinks he's a great negotiator, but he ALWAYS gives away the store. He should be defending Social Security (He is still a Democrat isn't he?), and make Social Security's opponents fight very hard and very, very publicly for every penny they want to cut.

And what of Medicare?

Wait, what? "Call when you get honest work?"

Really, Alan Simpson???

Someone needs to point out to him that people on Social Security are retired and that the reason they're on Social Security is that they've been doing "honest work" for DECADES and paying into the fund all that time.

Methinks someone has been feeding at the public trough way too long now and needs to go find some "honest work" himself.

I don't have a problem with his language. I admit it's odd, but I suspect it's just "old-fashioned." Sexist? I don't think so. There's not any "gender-neutral" animal he could use in that metaphor.

Shorter Simpson: "Only I get to talk; you asking questions is just "flash words"."

It's funny how no matter who you vote for, all the bad ideas still seem to get enacted. Not ha ha funny, funny strange.

Cuts to Social Security sounds like something John McCain would have done, and he did not win.

I don't suppose it's possible the Senator could have been referring to the abuses in the Social Security Disability system... or would that be too logical?
As for it being a sexist comment, maybe I'm just not sensitive enough. Then again, I'm not a cow.