It's a trick -- Republicans are only dumping Norquist to fool Democrats into cutting Social Security [View all]

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This is why Chambliss, Graham, etc. deserve no praise:

Like Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) before him, Graham thinks it’s more important to gut our social insurance programs than it is to uphold Norquists’s pledge. That is not cause for celebration among progressives.

In fact, Graham is asking for cuts in Medicare benefits that are even more severe than what Bowles-Simpson proposed. Here’s what he said on ABC’s This Week:

GRAHAM: It goes to 66, 67 here pretty soon for Social Security. Let it float up another year or so over the next 30 years, adjust Medicare from 65 to 67 over the next 30 years, means test benefits for people in our income level. I don’t expect Democrats to go for premium support or a voucher plan, but I do expect them to adjust these entitlement programs before they bankrupt the country and run out of money themselves.

Read more: http://boldprogressives.org/lindsey-graham-threw-grover-norquist-under-the-bus-but-wants-to-gut-medicare-and-social-security/