Democrats led by Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Raul Grijalva are drawing a line in the sand before the White House’s fiscal commission: If your report recommends cuts or other changes to Social Security, they will say, you’ll lose our support.
This time, unlike when they made similar threats regarding the public option, they may, in fact probably do, really mean it. There will be nothing else in the commission’s recommendations that will be especially enticing, so there will be no half loaf to tempt them.
The more signatures the letter gets, the less likely the Republicans will realize their fondest hope: the final destruction of the New Deal, with Medicare’s destruction as an added bonus. I know the next time I see Joe Courtney I’ll be either congratulating him for having added his name, or asking him why he didn’t. Every one of our representatives should be expected to sign on.
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