When Liberals Attack ... Social Security: Drum v. Lieberman

By Richard (RJ) Eskow

May 2, 2012 - 11:45am ET 

"Hmm," writes a blogger. "Liberals need to get off their fainting couches." It's in an argument for cutting Social Security benefits - and it comes from a liberal.

Benefit cuts would hurt millions of disabled and elderly people, harm our economy, and wound our social character.

Cear-eyed historians of the future wouldn't just point their fingers at radical right-wingers. They'd also cite collaborators in the Democratic Party and other members of what is still called (with no apparent sense of irony) "the Left."