WSJ on AARP

"Whatever the outcome of President Bush's push for personal accounts in Social Security, one of its effects deserves to be damage to whatever credibility AARP had left as a pragmatic and non-partisan organization..."

AARP "...sit[s] across the table from its interlocutors at the White House and pretend[s] to be sincere about its desire for compromise. And it's almost enough to make us long for an intrepid antitrust lawyer to take on the senior lobby. One thing's for sure: We're never going to have a reasonable debate about policies for an aging society as long as AARP has an effective monopoly on that role."