Looks like Reid has made his picks

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

That's nothing. Everyone says that.


What matters is if they are willing to make changes for future retirees. The reason why that is an open question, and not a definate yes, is because of fear the opposition party will mischaracterize the cuts and convince current retirees that either they were cut, or will be soon if they don't send a message.

Worse still is seems the party's are in an exchanging position of getting revenge for the previous attempt by the other party to claim they wanted to throw Grandma out in the street.

2005 - Bush proposes personal accounts and the Dems campaign against "Bush putting Grandma's retirement on the stock market"

2009 - Obama cut's medicare advantage to pay for Obamacare and the Republicans run against $500 billion dollar cut to Medicare


2011 - Republicans vote for a plan to change Medicare into a voucher like system...


With this patten, no wonder everyone is too afraid too do anything with entitlements. It's too easy for the other side to spin and lie about what you did in order to gain political advantage.