The policies Doug Hoffman supports created America’s financial crisis. That's the message of Accountable America's new TV ad on the air starting this week in the 23rd district of New York.

Hoffman is the darling of the Club for Growth, the right-wing group funded by some of Wall Street's biggest fat cats. The Club for Growth’s agenda boils down to one idea: stop consumer protections in the name of “deregulation.”

They don’t want to see the Financial Truth Commission "name names" and hold people accountable like the 9/11 Commission. That is why many of the Club for Growth’s biggest supporters voted against setting up the Commission.

Doug Hoffman has yet to call for tough investigations into the banks who created the financial crisis. Nor has he called for new regulations to protect consumers and end corporate greed. Hoffman doesn’t want to upset his Wall Street friends, so, he's singing their tune by supporting Bush-style tax cuts and deregulation designed to help the richest banks.

In a new ad airing in New York's 23rd District this weekend, Accountable America exposes Doug Hoffman’s Wall Street agenda. Check out the ad and, if you like what you see, make a contribution to support work like this ad.

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.