Kos already front-paged the story of an advocacy group sending mailers to Connecticut voters, praising Joe's firm opposition to privatization schemes.
Kos and others, notably including Josh over at TPM, have long observed that Joe was open to some form of private accounts right up until the whole scheme was clearly dead. That's what the front page post is about.
What this diary is about, is: who are these Social Security defenders, so smitten with Joe? The short answer below the fold.
The group is the Credit Union National Association. Here's what their lobbying arm CULAC said about Joe in the mailer:
Senator Joe Lieberman knows we can't play games with people's retirement.
Democrat Joe Lieberman has consistently fought against risky Republican schemes to gamble with the future of our Social Security.
Democrat Joe Lieberman was one of the first Senators to stand up to George W. Bush's dangerous plan to privatize Social Security. Lieberman opposed reckless efforts to invest Social Security in the stock market and successfully fought Bush administration attempts to cut payments.
(I'll grant them this: It is certainly true that Joe doesn't want to play games with Joe's retirement.)
Here's what CUNA said on Capitol Hill, May 2005:
Though CUNA has no position on whether personal accounts should be a part of any Social Security reform, it is our hope that if legislation moves forward that permits financial institutions to offer such accounts, that credit unions are included as a viable option.
So, the group praising Joe's position on Social Security?
That group testified that it does not object to privatization.