"Everything should be on the table"

Interesting conversation between Barak Obama and George Stephanopoulos last Sunday:

Stephanopoulos: You've also said that with Social Security,
everything should be on the table.

Obama: Yes.

Stephanopoulos: Raising the retirement age?

Obama: Everything should be on the table.

Stephanopoulos: Raising payroll taxes?

Obama: Everything should be on the table. I think we
should approach it the same way Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan did back in 1983.
They came together. I don't want to lay out my preferences beforehand, but what
I know is that Social Security is solvable. It is not as difficult a problem as
we're going to have with Medicaid and Medicare.

Stephanopoulos: Partial privatization?

Obama: Privatization is not something that I would
consider . . .

Democrats: the gift that keeps on giving (for Republicans). Hat tip to James Taranto.