For years, Democrats protected Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. These programs were considered the 3rd rail of American politics. It was widely known that any politician who would dare propose reforms to these programs would be savaged.

These programs are driving us into bankruptcy. This is not a new revelation. We have known this for years and yet have failed to act.

Now the same people who would never compromise on dangerously expensive programs are branding anyone who opposes them as extreme and unyielding. Members of Congress who were elected with Tea Party support are being labeled as rigid ideologues driving the economy into disaster. Get it? Supporting a program for years even though you know it will bankrupt us isn’t extreme or unyielding. It is driven by rigid ideologues. It won’t cause an economic disaster, and yet opposing those programs are. It would be funny if it weren’t so damaging.

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