Like, if the people find out about it?

Discovered by Dean Baker at The American Prospect and passed on by The Sideshow, this at the very bottom of a Washington Post piece last week:

Conrad declined to provide many details of the panel, saying too much information could "kill this baby in the crib."

Baby? A "bipartisan plan" to "deal with the skyrocketing costs of Social Security and other entitlement programs, with the goal of bringing a reform proposal to a vote in Congress later this year," according to Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.).

Oh no. There may be room to talk about Social Security but there is no room to make secret deals regarding its future. There is no point spending American lives to "spread democracy" if we're not going to practice it here at home. Want to discuss it, discuss it out in the open where we can all see.