McCain responds to Castor on Social Security

A spokesman for Republican John McCain offered a retort to Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor's criticism of his remark that Social Security's insolvency was an "absolute disgrace."

"Kathy Castor’s attacks are exactly what is wrong with the Social Security debate in Washington, and they will not do a thing to calm the worries of Florida’s seniors, who, while living on fixed incomes, are faced with rising food and fuel costs and a home mortgage crisis,'' said spokesman Jeff Sadosky. "The disgrace is our failure to fix the long-run imbalance in Social Security -- a failure of leadership evidenced by our willingness to kick to problem to the next generation of leaders. John McCain was also describing the looming and increasing demographic pressures confronting the Social Security system and Washington’s utter failure to address it."