A new 60-second TV ad released by Accountable America today confronts the closing argument from Republicans that Democrats shouldn't be allowed to control all of government. The ad argues that "Americans Don't Want Government Hand Outs, Just Government in Good Hands."

The ad was produced by ZOON POLITIKON LLC, a newly founded ad company based in Louisville, Kentucky. Principally Elliot Greenebaum and Gabriel Wrye, two experienced feature filmmakers who draw on a talent pool of professional writers, actors and creative technicians, Elliot and Gabriel were in Kentucky when Hurricane Ike hit the coast. In the wake of the storm which disabled Louisville for a week, and Elliot and Gabriel saw the opportunity to make this ad, staging the action on an actual site of storm devastation, and use the real residents of the location as actors.

ZOON POLITIKON has already produced spots for statewide campaigns and national political organizations. ZOON POLITIKON aims to move political advertising away from the traditional 1950's informational, power-point model and replace it with real experiences. Their work can be seen at ZoonPolitikon.com.

Conservatives could care less whether the public thinks their ideas are good or not. They want to force them on all of us. Ruy Teixeira writes at the Center for American Progress about public opinion trends on Social Security privatization.

He writes:

This was a bad idea when President George W. Bush was pushing it
back in 2005, but it’s an even worse one now. No wonder the public
opposes it so vigorously. In a CNN poll last weekend, just 36 percent
said they favored a proposal to allow workers to invest a portion of
their Social Security taxes, while 62 percent opposed the proposal.

It’s about time for conservatives to admit that dog just won’t hunt. The American people want more security, not less.

Isn't it time for conservatives to abandon their fantasy plan for ruining Social Security?

Since the inception of Social Security conservatives have opposed the program. They fought its inception. They fought its expansion to add disability insurance and survivors insurance. And, they've been trying to force people to privatize Social Security by putting it in the stock market. Yes, that stock market--the one that has fallen dramatically in the last few weeks.

During that entire time there has been unified oppositin to privatization from Democrats and progressives who have been holding Wall Street and conservatives accountable.

Opposing Social Security privatization. Standing up to Wall Street. That's accountability. Over the next few weeks Accountable America will expand its agenda to focus on big issues. And Social Securit is issue number one.