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64. Yes, I do too, Obama made reference to it in the SOTU tonight

He said he's willing to consider ways to limit runaway spending in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security in order to get the tax cuts for the rich repealed. Hopefully my memory is accurate. I'm certain he included Social Security in this context in the speech. I'm not certain it was in relation to the tax cut repeals, I think so though.

I'm somewhat confident we can fend off attacks on Social Security if a Republican (or Libertarian) is POTUS. I'm much more concerned with our ability to fend them off when a Democratic POTUS puts them on the table. The changes to Social Security then get the benefit of support from the Dems who feel obligated to support anything our POTUS does, or who feel it must be ok since their guy is behind it. We saw this under Clinton, he got things through that G.H.W. Bush couldn't. We're seeing it now, too. Health care reform was a slightly modified Heritage Foundation plan, as I understand it.

Dems have to realize that's it's ok to give/withhold support of policy proposals based on the policies themselves, not based on who is championing them. I realize that's not a real popular sentiment with many on this board, but it needs to be said and said often.