Democrats stiffen spine against trimming benefits

[stupidicus]

6. thanks for validating what many of us had concerns about

"I've made it very clear. I've told anyone that will listen, including everyone in the White House, including the president, that I am not going to be part of having Social Security as part of these talks relating to this deficit," Reid, D-Nev., told reporters. (notice we don't see the same thing for Medicare and Medicaid)

The new balance of power means that Democrats who once would have acquiesced reluctantly to GOP demands for stiff benefit cuts are now balking at ideas such as chained CPI or an increase in the Medicare retirement age, as well as demanding GOP concessions to higher taxes.

that such was a possibility justifying those concerns. That things have changed a bit doesn't alter the fact that BHO's veto pen was the solution all the time, and that his refusal to threaten using it was a major component of what underlied all those concerns.

Perhaps maybe some DUers should write Reid and tell him he was all wet and his concerns were all a part of his imagination as a "concern troll", no, as so many DUers were unjustifiably and erroneously labeled?

Like they knew better than Reid or countless others that shared those legitimate concerns...