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Mitch Mcconnell digs a hole on Social Security, falls in

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) answers questions from members of the press after speaking at a campaign rally Oct. 22, 2014 in Grayson, Ky.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), in the midst of the toughest race of his career, still isn't quite sure how he wants to present himself to voters. On the one hand, the longtime Republican senator is proud to be the nation's top obstructionist, helping create the most dysfunctional Congress in modern history. On the other hand, McConnell wants the public to see him as the consummate dealmaker.

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To help prove the latter point, the GOP incumbent cited an interesting example last week.

Though he hasn't mentioned it much on the campaign trail over the past year, McConnell specifically touted his effort to push President George W. Bush's plans to reform Social Security in 2005, which would have set up private accounts for retirees. "After Bush was re-elected in 2004 he wanted us to try to fix Social Security," said McConnell. "I spent a year trying to get any Democrat in the Senate even those most reasonable Democrat of all, Joe Lieberman to help us."

We now know, of course, that Democrats weren't interested in privatizing Social Security. Neither was the American mainstream, which hated the Bush/Cheney idea. But the fact that McConnell brought this up, unprompted, was a clumsy error from a senator who's usually more disciplined.

With time running out in Kentucky, Mitch McConnell decided to remind the state that he wanted to effectively eliminate the popular and effective Social Security system. Indeed, it's been part of McConnell's governing vision for many, many years.

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