sanders is on record calling for Social Security cuts

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127. Weird becuase when they were tryign to do the "Grand Bargain there was Sanders protesting it

Biden has forty years of calling for cuts. And when he thought he had the power to do so, tried for that very thing.

The grand bargain is a good example.

I know Biden supporters really want a Tu Torque so they can get the conversation off of Biden's very long record on this. And some think its easier to attack Sanders's character than his policies. A lot of cynicism in politics and the thinking is Sanders would be easier to deal with if he can be dragged down into it. It' a technique Rove pioneered and I always expected it would be used against Sanders.

But I don't' think this is going to do that. Probably would have helped more if Biden just came clean, admitted his position historically is very different from the one he claims to have now and explained why he changed his mind.

Just my opinion of course.

Then-White House spokesman Jay Carney defended the move, saying that the budget Obama put forward was “not his ideal budget,” but that it’s a “document that recognizes that to achieve a bipartisan solution to our budget challenges we need to make tough choices.”

Obama’s backtracking set off a furious reaction from seniors groups and progressive activists, who for the next few months mobilized their members to pressure Congress to reject the proposed change. By April 2013, 2.3 million Americans had signed petitions calling on the president to back off of chained CPI. The signatures were presented at a White House rally that featured Sanders, who vowed to “do everything in my power to block President Obama’s proposal to cut benefits for Social Security recipients through a chained consumer price index.”

The senator mobilized a wide coalition or organizations, including veterans, women’s rights groups, and labor unions to oppose chained CPI.

Under this intense activist pressure, the White House was unable to convince its own allies in Congress that this change was worth the political costs. The next year, the chained CPI was quietly dropped from Obama’s budget proposal.

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton’s evolution on the issue could also be traced to Sanders. Clinton initially shied away from the question of expanding the program, issuing only noncommittal statements on the issue. But after being directly challenged on the Social Security program this past February by the Sanders campaign, Clinton tweeted, “As always, I’ll defend it, & I’ll expand it.”

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/02/obama-wanted-to-cut-social-security-then-bernie-sanders-happened/

https://slate.com/business/2020/01/joe-biden-social-security-deficit.html

If you can find the one where Biden protects Social Security from Bernie, let me know.