Elizabeth Warren "Shocked" By Obama's Embrace Of Social Security cuts

[sabrina 1]

66. No budget would NOT be more harmful than a Chained CPI. And if we had courageous leaders

and some real democratic leadership, there would no chance of either happening.

If Warren were to become a betrayer also and vote against everything she has claimed to stand for, she would be finished politically.

I don't think the Democratic leadership has grasped what this has done. This was always going to be the last straw, a betrayal on SS. So many of us who worked so hard for so long to get Democrats elected, despite many disappointments along the way, always had one line that could not be crossed and that was SS.

If Congressional Democrats do not distance themselves now from this President on this issue, there will be be an unprecedented exodus from the Democratic Party. Maybe it's time we have tolerated far too much for far too long. And it's clear the Democratic Leadership despises the Left anyhow. I think this has become what will be a historical change in the dynamics of party politics. Everyone I talk to is ready now for something new, for real change.

I don't know who advised this president that SS was no longer the 'third rail of politics' but whoever it was should be fired.

Paul Ryan told George Bush the same thing in 1995 and Bush believed it. He set out on what was going to be a fifty state tour, using what he thought was his 'political capital' to try to do what this president thought he could do. Bush never made it past a few states before being sent home by the American people, Republicans AND Democrats.

There is a reason why SS has been called the 'third rail of politics'.

He never should have done this.