Reply #225: Yes, I have noticed that.

[QC]

DUers love to discuss the minutiae of policy (at least we used to discuss policy around here a lot, before DU became a fansite) but what matters here, in terms of the general voting public, is that now it's OK to talk about cutting Social Security.

For seventy years, bringing up even the possibility of cutting Social Security was instant career death for a politician, but now it's the pragmatic, sensible consensus, because "even liberals like Obama know we need to cut entitlements."

Only a Democrat could have accomplished that.