I agree completely with George Clooney

[TheWraith]

109. Yes.

And the total, wild hysteria over the whole deficit commission is perfect evidence. Every single event, practically every day for a year from the original deficit commission to the joint committee brought apocalyptic predictions about how Obama and the Democrats were about to destroy Social Security and Medicare. It was, every single word of it, total and utter absurd horseshit, with less than zero basis in reality.

Of course it's not just delusion, there's a healthy amount of Republican propaganda mixed in there. It's no coincidence that right after the Republicans get their heads handed to them over a plan to privatize Medicare, suddenly the drumbeat starts up among the shit-stirrers on the "left" like FDL that it's really DEMOCRATS who are plotting to destroy Medicare and Social Security.