Published: Thursday 3 May 2012
Benefit cuts would hurt millions of disabled and elderly people, harm our economy, and wound our social character.

"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."

Today's case study is called "Lieberman vs. Drum."

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Published: Friday 5 August 2011
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