With the very broad, inter-party support for leaving Social Security alone, what is the reasoning [View All]

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for vichy Dems to "tack to the right" and support Social Security cuts?

Constituents of both parties, and Americans overwhelmingly, don't want Social Security to be messed with:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/us/politics/21poll.html

"Nearly two-thirds of Americans choose higher payroll taxes for Medicare and Social Security over reduced benefits in either program. And asked to choose among cuts to Medicare, Social Security or the nation’s third-largest spending program — the military — a majority by a large margin said cut the Pentagon." (01/20/11 NY Times poll)

So what's the excuse for Dems in "red" states who decide they're going to steal money from those who've spent most of their lives paying into the program? Who's not going to vote for them because they voted against cutting Social Security benefits?



Is this worry that Republicans won't vote for them just a facade covering up some other reasoning for wanting to make cuts to the program?