Following up on last week's Watcher article on Social Security, it appears that speculation among conservatives for private accounts continues to grow. Each week it seems more and more conservative economists and analysts break with the administration's view on personal accounts. To read about it, click here. Also, see this article in tompaine.com that discusses how millions of disabled workers, spouses, and child beneficiaries would be left out under the privatization plan. The article is by Nancy Cauthen of the National Center for Children in Poverty. Click here to read a Newsday article on the lobbying efforts of labor organizations on behalf of the Social Security program.

The Government Accountability Office will investigate whether the Bush administration broke the law when it paid a syndicated columnist to help its pro-marriage efforts. Click here for the full story. Also, check out a Watcher article on the Maggie Gallagher case.

OMB Watch's budget team has an op-ed on TomPaine.com -- "All PART of the Game" -- detailing the gap between White House rhetoric and political reality belying the White House's claims that its budget cuts to the Community Development Block Grant and other vital, effective programs are justified, somehow, on the basis of program performance.