Melissa Harris Perry Just Said: "It's Reasonable To Raise the Retirement Age"

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46. add Michael Tomasky to your list

here he is telling us not to freak out when they propose cutting Medicare: title of column "Liberals hold your fire"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/15/michael-tomasky-on-how-liberals-need-to-hold-their-anti-obama-fire.html

Add to this the knowledge that it is Obama’s inclination, by temperament and instinct, to do a deal. And people who are inclined toward wanting to do deals will give up things that people who are not so inclined won’t. Last year, in the deal with John Boehner that didn’t hold, he floated $360 billion in Medicare and Medicaid cuts. White House ally Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland—no Blue Dog he, by a long shot—yesterday floated the possibility of raising the Medicare eligibility age. So. What happens if Obama puts something like that on the table?

Before liberals rush to the barricades chanting “¡no pasaran!” I would urge everyone to take a breath and think back to exactly this time four years ago. Every pundit in town was saying the Republicans were in disarray. Obama was riding high. It was going to be a glorious four years.