Is this Senators’ Primer for How to Change Your Position on Marriage Equality having an effect? Sens. Donnelly (D-IN) and Heitkamp (D-ND) just switched their position.

Readers were greeted this morning by news that President Obama, the Democratic president, sometimes called the first liberal US president in almost half a century, is proposing cuts to Social Security in this years budget. This shouldn’t come as a great surprise. These are the ‘chained CPI’ cuts we’ve heard about for a while as what the president would be willing to put on the table in a so-called ‘grand bargain.’ So what’s going on here? Read More