Get Out the Bulldozers...

From the Smirking Chimp, via Mills River Progressirve:  "Tell your Senators to defend Social Security and Medicare by supporting these amendments!" by Richard Eskow.  Because as a certain politician said (by way of Scratchings):

And let me say this as a politician -- I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks.

Parts of that speech, by the way, are quite scary.

Apparently we're not pushing the Senators hard enough.  I've said more than once that one of the factors in Social Security's creation was that during the Depression, everybody in positions of power either had been, was closely related to, or knew personally someone who was poor.  It's a shame that some legislators need personal tragedy to understand Medicare or Social Security or the Affordable Care Act.