Reply #42: That's exactly right. This isn't fabrication or speculation. It's a clear and present danger. [View All]

[Faygo Kid]

When he appointed Alan Simpson to cochair the Catfood Commission, it wasn't speculative. It was fact. When he recently proposed extending the "payroll tax holiday" to further weaken Social Security, it wasn't speculative. It was a fact. And this is a fact: He has put cuts to Social Security and Medicare on the table, and for what? Does anyone here now believe he will actually let the Bush tax cuts expire, for example? He needs to be a little more FDR and a little less Neville Chamberlain.