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Upon rumors of purported "grand bargain" including $400 billion in cuts to Medicare, Social Secuirty and Medicaid, Rep. Keith Ellision. the leader of the House Progressive Caucus, just said NO:   WASHINGTON- Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Co-Chair of the Congressional...

Not that anyone cares, but it seems that a vast majority of the American public think raising the Medicare eligibility age is stupid.

Greg Sargent talks about this issue in depth in this post. He says that the Republicans are refusing to name their demands on "entitlement" cuts, instead saying that the Democrats must first say what they are willing to give. That's very cute, but it doesn't really work that way and they know it. If the Democrats are dumb enough to do that then we are all screwed.

But don't be surprised if they do. Greg reports that Democrats are not entertaining doing this at all but I'm sorry to say that's just not true. On raising the medicare eligibility age, there have been some powerful Dems out there endorsing it.

Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games.

I first posted about the budget dilemma Hurricane Sandy presented to congressional Republicans in general and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on October 31. At that time I said there were three questions.

The questions are now starting to be answered.

An extremist website called World Net Daily says that the Campaign For America's Future, where I am a Senior Fellow, is "radical." They're worked up about our Wage Class War website, which documents 2012's successful class-based political campaigns and promotes this...