At least the White House was honest in this one instance:

Josh Marshall writes:

TPM emailers tell me that the best moment of the speech came when the president said that last year Congress 'failed' to act on his plan to phase out Social Security. Dems cheered; Republicans sat with stony silence. I would like to have seen that.

So, how did that event get recorded over on the White House website? From their page of the speech:

Congress did not act last year on my proposal to save Social Security -- (applause) --

posted by Quiddity at 2/01/2006 07:59:00 AM