Single payer may not be on the table

Wed, 05/06/2009 - 3:56pm — DCblogger

but Steny Hoyer says that social security deform is on the table.

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Stress tests and S.S. "reform"?

By gqmartinez on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 4:37pm

Maybe the stress tests are useless since we don't know how much of the SS funds will go to bailing out Wall Street.

I voted for one "on ballot" Dem last year and that was for the state house and only because she was an outsider. The handling of the primary should have been a clue as to how the Dems would govern. I'm very disappointed in how Dems are morphing, but sadly I'm not that surprised.

Didn't we have a discussion about a lock box

By Salmo on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 4:46pm

It seems to me that the winner of the popular vote some nine years ago campaigned on, among other things, a "lock box" to prevent the social security trust fund from being looted.

What's Josh saying about this over at TPM? Revving up the Keep

By jawbone on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 6:06pm

Soc Sec Safe campaign? Heh.

Isn't Josh just a V2M* farm team?

By gqmartinez on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 6:28pm

Sure seems that way

*V2M = Village-Versailles Media = MCM/MSM + proggers

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