Remember last month when Mitt Romney beat President Obama 332 - 206?
Elections have consequences.
As Democrats, we must suck it up and realize that our guy lost and the country has spoken loud and clear.
The Election of Mitt Romney sent a powerful message that America feels the rich need more tax cuts and that cutting the poor and elderly is the best way to reduce our deficit.
If America wanted income equality and supported things like Medicare and Social Security, they would have re-elected Barack Obama. They Didn't.
Mitt Romney won with a strong mandate. So we must be willing to compromise things like Social Security and understand that our ideas lost this November.
Besides, every poll shows that Medicare and Social Security are highly unpopular and that Americans support giving the rich more tax cuts while their benefits get cut.
If Obama had won, then maybe we could stand up and use our mandate to protect seniors in the fiscal cliff deal.
However this is just not reality. So we must accept that Social Security will be cut because this is what the country wants and asked for in November by Electing Mitt Romney as the President of the United States.
Oh well. Maybe we can gain seats in the 2014 election with the popularity we'll gain by fulfilling the public's demand to cut Social Security. Americans hate Social Security.