Forget Michigan. Worry About Rep. Steny Hoyer (Corporate Party - MD) and Social Security

By Richard (RJ) Eskow

February 28, 2012 - 10:57pm ET 

Forget Michigan. Worry about Steny Hoyer.

While most political eyes are fixed on Romney's primary results, the middle class faces a threat to its financial security right in the heart of the Capitol.The Democratic Party does, too.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, who is the living embodiment of Washington's corporatized politics, is once again pushing a "Grand Bargain" that would cut Social Security and Medicare - and result in more electoral losses like the ones he helped bring upon his party in 2010.